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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It probably was unintentional. The 5 moms are good friends and just decided to have this get-together. [/quote]
This. If I’m friends with some moms why can’t I just plan on going out with them for lunch with our kids? 
There might be other kids that our kids are friends with too OP, not just yours. Do we invite them all too? Then it turns into a cluster. [/quote]

It’s not that these moms shouldn’t get together in small groups, it’s the fact that they then feel it necessary to show off on facebook. Why does it need to be flaunted on social media?  If not to show off?

Just share the pics with the moms who are there over text. That’s the part that feels really insensitive and like mean girls activity. [/quote]

My neighborhood has a large group WhatsApp chat. I kid you not, the cliquey moms send pictures of their social gatherings and events over the WhatsApp chat to everyone else in the neighborhood so they can see what they're missing out on. I stay off social media, but the WhatsApp chat is useful for communication and sort of internal neighborhood buy-nothing. However, I don't need to see videos of women in their late 30s and 40s doing shot-skis at a five year olds birthday party. It is insane and almost like some sort of weird internal competition between some of these mothers to see who is the "coolest". I live by one of the most exclusionary mothers I've ever met - there will be times when someone will ask in the group chat if kids are getting together anywhere, and it'll be crickets in response - meanwhile there is a collection of golf-carts and cars at a Friday Happy Hour in this woman's yard with other kids the same age. God forbid they include one more.

Last night was Monday and when out walking my dog, I was passed multiple times by one of the moms driving around on her golf cart drinking High Noons - basically patrolling the neighborhood to see if anyone was out doing anything without her. What's hilarious is that when new families move to our neighborhood, this same crew will tell them all how wonderful the neighborhood "village" is and what a blast it is to live there. I'm just thankful that my kids are older and moving on from the stage of parents social engineering their friendships. When my kids were younger my neighborhood was not this crazy.

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You asked for it by moving into one of those golf cart neighborhoods. Never would I ever.[/quote]

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