This is a little girl that I have been mentoring since the first of the year. Awhile back my church let us know about a need for volunteers to make a commitment to take on a child and be their friend through a mentor program. That is how I met Destiny. She is such a sweet little girl. She is very bubbly and outgoing. Most of the kids at Scotland Park are from poverty stricken homes but she seems to be better off than most of the kids. Some ladies in our church actually pack meals for many kids at the school otherwise they would not have anything to eat over the weekend. Destiny has a mom and dad, siblings and a large extended family. Last week was the first time that she really opened up to me. She told me that she was having a hard time with some of the other kids in her class being mean to her. Kids in third grade don't always have the best social skills and sometimes the process of developing them can be difficult. She shared about in incident involving a girl who was her friend's friend. This other friend was doing something annoying and Destiny told her it was annoying and now both of those girls are mad at her. There were a couple of other girls that she did not get along with also. I really never had to deal with that silly girl stuff since I was homeschooled. I had friends but they just didn't pull that. Is there anyone out there who has been through this and has some advice? I just told her to not take it personally, as hard as that is. Girl's feelings can change on a dime.



That was last week. Today the girls and I went to go have lunch with her and the other kids in the lunchroom told me that she had changed schools. Apparently last Friday her mom got her hair up her navel about something and decided that Destiny needed to change schools. I told the mentor coordinator about it and she said that was not the issue. She did not share the reason and I did not ask. She seemed pretty upset about it and said that Destiny did not want to go. I am going to follow Destiny to her other school and still be her mentor. Hopefully she will have an easier time making friends at her new school.