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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here and I'm waffling on which side I agree with.  Then it occurred to me that it would depend on how the situation happened.  If OPs DD when asked, said "oh, I'm really sorry, but I promised Larla and Jane they could sit next to me.  But, join us and sit across from me and tomorrow we can sit next to each other."  I'd agree with OP and say that the volunteer mum was completely out of line.  But, if OPs DD when asked said "NO!  I always sit next to Larla and Jane.  You can't sit with us."  and the other girl asked if she could sit at the table and OPs dd responds "Whatever - do what you want"   and then proceeds to ignore volunteer mum's kid throughout lunch, I'd agree with volunteer mum and appreciate if she spoke to my kid if it was mine that behaved that way.

I guess it all depends on how the whole lunch-gate went down.[/quote]

no, no, no...read a couple threads up...even if it went down the second way this is something for a 9 year old to manage on her own.  If she needs the teacher or lunch monitor to help out fine.  A parent has no place in this type of VERY TYPICAL lunchroom scenario.  Kid needs a backbone and stepping in over this is not teaching her coping skills.  She is 9 for chrissakes.[/quote]

Exactly.  Just wait until this kid is 18 and can't pick her own college classes, can't navigate her way through a university system, is calling her mom 10 times a day to help solve her problems and ends up on meds after a visit to the campus health service.  Yeah, it happens - a lot.  I used to work as a college fundraiser and got pulled in on everything from choosing a major to transferring majors/schools to fixing a maintenance issue in the kid's room by these helpless moms who are so useless that they can't help their children make their own choices or solve their own problems.  It is pathetic and frightening.  These kids end up in the workforce where they need their hand held constantly.  These parenting choices have repercussions.   [/quote]

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