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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter belongs to a recreational softball team in which the coach's daughter ALWAYS has sleepovers. As far as I can tell, virtually EVERYONE on the team, except my daughter has been invited.  I, and my daughter, are not so much bothered by her not being invited.  It's the fact that they all make it known there is a sleepover, and she is not invited.  This happens EVERY weekend.  And get this....her OLDER sister has been invited, but not her.  I like the coach, I like her daughter, I like the girls on the team. I don't like their way of being exclusive though, and making it known. And my younger daughter, the coach's daughter, and other girls, go to social events together and seem to get along in that environment.  They just don't feel my youngest daughter is "sleepover" material apparently. I'd NEVER let either one of my children sleep over there now, even if the younger one was invited.  That would be too weird at this point. Plus I feel that nothing good would come of it. She'd probably  be isolated or bullied in some other low key way.  True, people should invite who they want to a sleepover.  But when children make it obvious that they are excluding another, ...that is just plain mean spirited, or insensitive at the least.  While people don't want to feel like they are walking on egg shells, and others should just "tough it out", there is much to be said for being tactful and teaching your children the same.  We also live in a society where people preach about just dealing with stuff and so forth, but when the next national news story of a child committing suicide, or shooting up a school  comes to past, many of these same people will talk about how bullying and exclusion is to blame.  People are all about good intentions but don't necessarily practice them themselves with those immediately around them.[/quote]

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