Parenting Unfiltered: The Mean Girl in a Digital World

Cat & Nat Unfiltered

Cat & Nat

Relationships, Society & Culture, Comedy, Momtruths, Women's Podcast, Life

5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We’re talking about "mean girls" and how mean girl behavior has evolved in the digital age. It’s no longer just whispered comments or exclusion at recess—today, manipulation can happen through group chats, DMs, screenshots and social media posts. Girls are being targeted in more subtle, calculated ways—using each other’s words against them, turning private conversations into public humiliation, and isolating others with just a few taps on a screen. It’s hard to know how to help. How can we support our kids through a social landscape that’s constantly shifting?

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0:00.0	I'm always up before the birds and the kids.
0:02.9	Good thing Costa Express is always up too.
0:07.0	Early starts are easier with great coffee.
0:09.7	And if I grab one for Bob, I might even get some decent company.
0:14.5	Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep.
0:17.2	Oh, you legend.
0:19.6	Now that's a proper coffee.
0:21.3	Should kick in Justin Samfut.
0:22.5	Remember which end of the screwdriver to use?
0:25.1	Hmm.
0:26.3	Costa Express.
0:27.8	Quality coffee every time.
0:31.9	The mean girl behavior, the mean girl believes that they're also victims.
0:36.3	So they're feeling like they're personalizing other comments, behaviors, actions as behaviors.
0:44.3	And a big thing that girls do, and I don't know if boys do it, because I can only talk to like teenage girls is that they'll reshare posts or stories as a way of getting their message out.
0:56.0	I drop it like a hot, drop like a tie, drop it like a tap.
0:59.0	Natalie, what do I do?
1:01.0	I hope it's giddy, giddy.
1:05.0	Because I don't live with them now. I live here.
1:08.0	We can make me a really nice apartment down here, by the way.
1:11.3	Okay.
1:11.8	Yeah.
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