Girl-a-thon recently received an email chain letter from a member of her Girl Scout Troop. It was a threatening letter that promised death and eyeball removal--with a fork, at the hands of none other than Mickey Mouse--for those who didn't pass it along. Of course she forwarded it to all her closest friends to spare them, or "not to chance it" as she wrote.
Thankfully, one of the forwardees showed the email to her mother who made me aware of it. Now, we have already discussed appropriate use of email and such in the A-thon house, so I was pretty peeved. Dad-a-thon handled it much more calmly than I would have. Girl-a-thon has sent an email apology to all of her friends, and has informed them of her being "offline" for the next month.
The challenge, though is what to do about the girl who sent the email? Do we let her parents--who are new to us--know?
Any adivce on how to handle this would be greatly appreciated.
I think you could do it really tactfully, in an "I wasn't sure if you would want to know about this.." since being "new" you may not know their standard of emailing. However if they share your standard (a great one by the way) I'm sure they would want to know. You wouldn't have to tell girl-a-thons punishment in case they are unconcerned with it, otherwise they may feel you were trying to push them to your standards ::phew:: so my vote, tell them, if parents aren't communicating kids can get away with all kinds of nonsense.
ReplyDeleteYep. That's what I'm leaning toward. It's still awkward. Plus there's that whole fear of man thing...
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