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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she's been harboring negative feelings for quite awhile, then it isn't about the party. It's about your parenting. Show some vulnerability and a little bit of humility here. Tell her that you want to be a better parent. You will work at it, and you want to have a good relationship.

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People who say these things must not have teenage/young women kids. You can breathe the wrong way and they will declare you are controlling. I think it is social media, kids telling each other that parents are horrible if they aren’t allowed to do everything they want.

I told my DD in high school she wasn’t permitted to go on spring break trip to VA beach with her friends because they’d also invited kids from other schools I didn’t know, there would be no parents because one family said they could use their beach house, and these parents are known to be very permissible in terms of alcohol (“as long as they aren’t driving, it’s fine with us”). My daughter was livid. She is 23 and still brings this up when she’s annoyed. Were we overly controlling or were we being responsible parents? Being responsible parents sometimes means controlling your child’s behavior, yes. [/quote]

My 25 yr old son still brings up the time we wouldn't allow him to fly private (DS went to a boarding school in NE) with a very wealthy friend to his house in Aruba, with other kids.  And no parents.  The mother, when I called, said "Oh, but the staff will look after them".  DS was 17.  Other kids all went (WTF is wrong with parents???).[/quote]

yeah that sucks  -  that trip sounds awesome. I'm sure they would have been fine.[/quote]

NP.

No way is my kid going to hang with a bunch of rich kids in a foreign country with no adult supervision.  Rich kids do a LOT of drugs and get into all kinds of trouble.  No way is my high school kid getting permission to do that. [/quote]

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