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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP Here.  Thanks for the replies.  I will not confront the mom, I wasn't planning on doing that anyway, I was just annoyed by what she was saying.  I will let it blow over.  To clarify, there are tons of kids in my neighborhood.  My daughter has known the two girls that were invited for a bit over 5 years.  The three of them are close.  If my daughter had only chosen one of them I would have told her that the other one needed to be part of the 10 or that neither could be part of the 10 because including only one would be plain mean, the three are close.  The new girl likes to play with them, and they do play together, but it's just not the same bond.  My daughter likes her, but not as close as her other friends (even those who were not invited.)  BTW, there are other girls in our neighborhood that come to play with my daughter and he two friends, but not as often.  [/quote]

The 3 girls who have known each other forever have included the 4th new girl in their regular play together.  I'm sure that the new girl was happy to make 3 friends like that.  In fact, since she's new, these girls might be her only friends so far.  To be excluded from a party invite would have stung.  Think of how your own daughter would have felt if she was the new kid on the block and that had happened to her.

It's understandable that you wanted this to be a special party for your daughter and it's understandable that you had to limit your invite list but it is also completely understandable why the new girl was hurt by the exclusion.  It was wrong of the other mother to complain to other neighbors about it.  Although remember that this mom is new, too, and maybe she was trying to figure out what, if anything, she or her daughter had done to be left out.

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