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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to coach your daughter to politely respond to other children “I was turning 10, so I was only allowed invite 9 people”. She doesn’t have to justify why she picked the 9 she did.

When you see the other mom, you need to say “I heard Larla was sad that she was not invited to the party. I’m sorry we could not invite everyone, we only allowed Princess to invite 9 people, including her cousin.” 
If the mom balks or is a bitch about it and has the guts to say you should have made sure that the 4 neighborhood kids were part of the 8 - just say “we set the limit and respected Princess’s choices”

Life is going to be hard for the other mom if she holds onto this grudge. [/quote]

You have no obligation to invite everybody in the neighborhood or scale back the party or do whatever it is that society thinks you need to do.  You had a party for your daughter with certain limits and that's fine.  Life happens and not everybody gets to be included in everything. [/quote]

That's true. And the natural consequences of that is that the excluded ones feel hurt and may talk about how they feel to others.  That might be a natural consequence that OP is ok with for herself, but what about her daughter? [/quote]

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