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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]You seem rather overinvolved in your child's social life. If my child were invited, I'd ask if he wanted to go. He'd respond based on whether he was interested in hanging out with those kids. We would move forward accordingly and live our lives.

No it's the opposite... [b]I'm uninvolved to the point I would never consider engineering a pity party to make up for missing someone else's. [/b]I'm not suggesting a "leftovers" party because she didn't get an invitation to something else... That's crazy. And overinvolved to a really unhealthy extent. [/quote]

You are entirely missing the point.  Nobody is suggesting that you engineer anything.  The issue we are discussing at this juncture is whether you should tell your kid he or she should not accept the invite to the alleged pity party because, according to you, it is "entitled, petty, and desperate."  If my kid is invited somewhere, what I tell him is that he has been invited and does he want to go.  There is absolutely no need for me to express an opinion on whether he should accept an invite absent some health and safety issue, or ascribe a judgment to the social implications of an invite.[/quote]

Normally I would agree. In this case I find the basis of the party problematic and use my judgment as parent to decline the invite. [/quote]

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