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[quote=Anonymous]chest pain is caused by having an anxiety attack.   I can't blame someone from being upset about being woken up in the middle of the night by a very upset child.   I personally am not prone to anxiety, so thankfully I do not have panic or anxiety attacks as a reaction to stressful events.   But I do agree that when your child is deeply upset about something (as this girl had every right to be!) it was be upsetting to the mom.   Under the circumstances, I think she reacted very calmly and didn't chew out the girls, yell, fly off the handle   She had a calm conversation with them, and also with their parents.   It's not quite how I would have handled it, but everyone parents differently and this isn't something most parents plan to have happen.

Sending a 3 AM email saying "I'm bringing your girls home early tomorrow..." is no big deal -- She was awake after all because of a "prank" their DAUGHTERS pulled in the wee hours of the morning, she had just spent some time comforting her daughter down, and wasn't asleep.  It's not like she called or texted them and woke them up for heaven's sake.

I went on a ton of sleep overs and sleep away camps when I was a kid and nothing like this happened at any of them.  The ONE thing I remember was some girl writing something mean about me on the bathroom wall of a camp we were at.  That was EXTREMELY hurtful, and my mom was there (she was a chaperone on the trip) and she got very mad at the girls as well.   I didn't cry for hours though -- but I cried for at least an hour, and I went and hid in the car so I didn't have to see the jerk.   (Still remember her name -- Mary)

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