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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dad, you're right that some people wouldn't feel the same if the 2 parties were further apart, like 3 months. I'll agree with you there. 
It's the fact that your daughter decided not to invite this child and turned around the very next day to attend said child's party. It's like daughter is taking advantage of the other child's hospitality. [/quote]

Pretty sure you'd flame me if dd snubbed the other party too.

She doesn't dislike the other girl. [b]It's just when she was choosing 5 guests for her own partyshe selected others.[/b] As an adult you may think she's a little bitch (as several have said) for articulating a reason about objecting to a potty mouth. But to her, it was very important. The party was in her house, in her space. She can base a decision to exclude based on a fear of how the other child would behave. I counseled against her, but, frankly, I thought it was a valid enough reason that I wasn't going to overrule her on it.

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Once again, that's not the point.  No one's (at least I'm) not saying that she was obligated to dis-invite one of the first five kids and invite the other girl.  But once you told her she could make it 6, it stopped being about numbers, and started being about the other girl.  I'm all for letting kids decide certain things, but they aren't the final authority on very many things at 7 yo, and certainly not with respect to something that is fairly obvious to an adult (or should be, at any rate) which will hurt one of her friend's feelings.  [/quote]

What about all the other girls in the class?  Shouldn't they have been invited too?  I mean, I'm sure they will eventually invite this kid to their birthday parties, so aren't they all just obligated to invite them all the time 100% of the time until the remainder of eternity?  No one has any free will about wanting certain kids at their parties but taking them up on their invitations?  This is ridiculous.  She was INVITED to that party.  She attended.  End of story.  And by the way, she's 7.[/quote]

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