Should DD be upset most of her friends went to beachhouse weekend of her open house?

[Anonymous]

She's taking it personally. Her big core group of friends decided late last week to go to a family beach house. She was sulking Saturday, the day of her open house. I saw she tweeted a couple passive aggressive tweets about "real friends." I told her to delete them. She showed me their instagram photos and all of them were saying "best weekend of my life!" It was like a last hurrah because a few of the girls are leaving for college in a week.

[Anonymous]

What's an open house?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's an open house?

+1

[Anonymous]

Your teen DD owns a home? I think the general advice is to go away the weekend of your open house. Or is this college orientation? Why are you involved in this anyway? Sure, I'd be sad I was missing out if I was your DD but that's life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's an open house?

Sorry. Graduation party, i.e. open house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your teen DD owns a home? I think the general advice is to go away the weekend of your open house. Or is this college orientation? Why are you involved in this anyway? Sure, I'd be sad I was missing out if I was your DD but that's life.

12th grade graduation. The group of friends is really clean cut, too. Good clean fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's an open house?

Sorry. Graduation party, i.e. open house.

I've literally never heard of a graduation party being referred to as an 'open house'.... is this a southern thing?

[Anonymous]

Timing was unfortunate for your daughter. IME graduation parties are for the parents more than the kids and kids don't have that much control over when they can go to someone's beach house. So all around it sucked for your daughter. Did you invite her friends to your party?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your teen DD owns a home? I think the general advice is to go away the weekend of your open house. Or is this college orientation? Why are you involved in this anyway? Sure, I'd be sad I was missing out if I was your DD but that's life.

12th grade graduation. The group of friends is really clean cut, too. Good clean fun.

What does this have to do with anything?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's an open house?

Sorry. Graduation party, i.e. open house.

I've literally never heard of a graduation party being referred to as an 'open house'.... is this a southern thing?

No. I'm the first pp and have never heard of this. Maybe that's why her friends didn't come. They didn't know what it was.

[Anonymous]

Was your daughter invited to the beach house weekend?

[Anonymous]

I don't blame your daughter for being upset if she thought her friends were coming to her party and then all went away without her at the last minute. How long ago had she invited them to her party? Had they RSVP'd?

Where are the girls who are leaving in a week going to college? Are they going to service academies, which start during the summer, or just starting at a regular college during the summer session? I'd have a little more sympathy for kids going off to a service academy and they want a fun weekend before a summer of what is essentially basic training.

[Anonymous]

Poor kid. Harsh reality is that her friends didn't schedule around her weekend plans and this must hurt a bit. I would be upset too if I was stuck at an adult party while my friends celebrated without me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your teen DD owns a home? I think the general advice is to go away the weekend of your open house. Or is this college orientation? Why are you involved in this anyway? Sure, I'd be sad I was missing out if I was your DD but that's life.

12th grade graduation. The group of friends is really clean cut, too. Good clean fun.

What does this have to do with anything?

Ha. I looked clean cut to parents when I was a teenager. I wasn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your teen DD owns a home? I think the general advice is to go away the weekend of your open house. Or is this college orientation? Why are you involved in this anyway? Sure, I'd be sad I was missing out if I was your DD but that's life.

12th grade graduation. The group of friends is really clean cut, too. Good clean fun.

What does this have to do with anything?

I could see some parents may think a weekend at a beach house full of teens sounds ripe for debauchery, so who cares if DD didn't get to go. Or who cares if the party girls didn't come to her graduation party. Just wanted to assuage that. This was a good group of girls.