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[quote=Anonymous]We live in Chicago now (have been there for 2 years), but I would love advice on how to handle this situation with my 9yo DD.

Over the weekend DH took her to a local ice skating rink as a fun daddy daughter activity. Well, they got there and quickly realized that one of the girls in DD's class was having a birthday party and DD hadn't been invited. Fine, it happens and after a certain age not everyone is invited to all parties. However, DD goes to a small private school and there are only 20 kids in her class, and according to her she and one other girl were the only ones who weren't there/invited (since all of her other "friends" were there supposedly). What made it worse is that one of the boys apparently came up to her and asked what she was doing there - so I guess he knew she wasn't invited somehow? DD got upset and they ended up leaving, and despite the fact that we explained that people can't always invite everyone to a party, and that she can be sad but she has some really great friends of her own, so not to dwell on this. The birthday girl isn't one of her best friends, but they do play every once in a while and have never had an issue seemingly. I am fairly friendly with her mom, but not close enough to say something without it being awkward.

DD seemed kind of down the rest of the day, and this morning she woke up saying she was sick and didn't want to go to school. Clearly she was faking so we sent her, and by 10am we got a call from the nurse saying she was there and upset. We picked her up and she said people were teasing her for being a party crasher and she doesn't want to go back to school anymore.

Clearly we are not pulling her out of school over this, but is there anything more we can do to help her come to terms with this? It's really horrible to be excluded and I know that's life, but it's just really tough at this age.[/quote]

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