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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That is incredibly rude and mean girl type behavior.

She can have a party and one girl sleeps over, no big deal.

Or she can have a party and all the girls sleep over. Wonderful.

But having a party where just over half the girls sleep over?  Rude and mean.[/quote]

It's not rude or mean.  It's highly unlikely that a teen is equally close to 11 friends.  Also, having 11 kids sleep over is a lot.  I don't view this as mean girl behavior.  Also, before you start saying that's likely because I was a mean girl or that my girls are likely mean girls, I wasn't, and my DD would likely be one of the excluded girls because she's shy and introverted.  Labeling everything mean girl type behavior is counterproductive.  I guess OP should just not inclythe extra five girls in any part of the evening because of people like you. [/quote]

You’re wrong.  If the teen isn’t close to the people, she should not invite them in the first place.  Allowing even some to stay (barring extenuating circumstances, like one coming from a very far distance), IS RUDE.  Saying it isn’t rude just shows that you, too, have bad manners.[/quote]

I said equally close.  There are friends that my kids are close enough to invite to a birthday party, but not a sleepover.  There are friends who would invite my kids to a birthday party, but not to a sleepover.  I don't have bad manners, I'm just not whiny and entitled.  I'm also not raising my kids to be whiny.  We are in the teen forum.  There is way too much coddling going on here.[/quote]

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