DD refusing to go to homecoming

[Anonymous]

DD is a junior and I really want her to go to homecoming since it's a classic and, in my mind, important HS experience. However, she recently had a big falling out with her friend group and as such will have no one to go with. She doesn't have a date. However, she has a decent amount of acquaintances who she knows will be at the dance, and I'm hoping she can hang out with them.

However, she's being absolutely firm. Is there anything I can say or do to change her mind?

[Anonymous]

Leave her alone.

[Anonymous]

Leave the poor girl alone. HC is not an iconic experience.

[Anonymous]

Oh my jeeze. Let her decide on her own.

[Anonymous]

Why not let her have her journey?
If you think she might change her mind, make sure she has a dress and tickets.

If she is not going to the dance - how about doing something else fun instead? Go get nails done at a place late in the day when the classmates are gone.
Go to a movie she wants to see - or stream something at home.

[Anonymous]

She doesn't want to go.

She isn't you.

She is plenty old enough to make her own decisions.

You had your chance for homecoming. I am sure there are adult dances somewhere if you are desperate to relive your high school years.

[Anonymous]

Step back pushy mom. Yikes. What a control freak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Leave her alone.

Yes. Please leave her alone.

[Anonymous]

I have no clue whether I went to junior year HoCo, and it does not impact my life at all.

[Anonymous]

Let it go. She doesn't have to go. She will likely go to prom next year. I never went to homecoming and was a well adjusted happy teen, relatively, with no friend group fallout.

[Anonymous]

Such a horrible post. Leave her alone OP.

Please let this be a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD is a junior and I really want her to go to homecoming since it's a classic and, in my mind, important HS experience. However, she recently had a big falling out with her friend group and as such will have no one to go with. She doesn't have a date. However, she has a decent amount of acquaintances who she knows will be at the dance, and I'm hoping she can hang out with them.

However, she's being absolutely firm. Is there anything I can say or do to change her mind?

Here's something that will blow your mind OP. In some parts of the country, homecoming dances are not a thing. It doesn't happen. The earth still spins and the sun comes up.

[Anonymous]

Leave her alone!

I didn't go to junior year homecoming and I went to a party at a farm for senior year homecoming because the official venue was at a racist and anti-Semitic club.

Not going to junior year homecoming didn't affect my life at all, and the farm party was a positive experience.

Back off, please.

[Anonymous]

Good lord. Leave her alone! It's embarrassing enough for her!

[Anonymous]

This is such a sad post.