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[quote=Anonymous]There's a little girl that's friendly with my daughter at school. They're both in Kindergarten, and aftercare together. She's a sweet kid, and we've had her over to play several times. They went to the same preschool. The kids play well together, and the mom usually hangs out, I like her, too.

We've never been to their house, which is fine, but every time I see this kid at aftercare, she talks about how she really wants my daughter to come to her house, and how she has a big dollhouse, even bigger than my daughter's, and she wants to show her. And every time I say, "we'd love to, Larla! Just have your mom text me!" - we've had this exchange probably 5-6 times this school year, with no invite from mom. Again, fine, lots of parents don't host for a variety of reasons, I have no complaints about that.

Well, the last time I saw her, and we did our back and forth, and she said "last weekend mom said you guys were too busy to come and play."

Now, maybe the kid made that up. But it seems more likely that mom is fibbing to get Larla off her back. On one hand, I get that. Especially if the reasons they don't want us over are complex or grownup-y reasons, the temptation to fib to get your kid to drop it is understandable. But it really, really bothered me. This is a sweet kid, and I don't want her to think we're too busy for her! I don't get the feeling she has a lot of friends at school. Maybe I'm over reacting - my parenting style (um, and also kinda life style?) is to give the whole truth, so that probably contributes to my feeling about this.

I was thinking of inviting them over again soon - would you say something to the mom? What would you say? I don't want to overstep, but I really dislike that she's making us out to be the bad guys to her kid. [/quote]

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