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[quote=Anonymous][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]

True, but the consequences of what OP and her daughter did include people talking about them excluding one 10 year old girl.  Just as life happens and that girl was left out, life happens and neighbors may now have a poorer opinion of OP and her daughter.   One thing that always annoys me about people excusing sh**ty behavior as "life happens" is that those people usually aren't willing to accept that "life happens" also means they have to deal with the fall out of their sh**ty behavior.

This all sounds like something out of Big Little Lies, btw...[/quote]

Got excluded from too many parties, huh?  What OP did was not "sh**ty" behaviour.  Small parties are normal for 9 and up kids.  There are even smaller parties of only 5 kids.  It is inevitable that some kids will not get invited when parties are that small.  It happens to all.
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