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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let your daughter invite her friend. If the friend or parents say anything inappropriate, ask them to leave[/quote]
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Do this until you see something FIRSTHAND that you don’t like.  Right now you’re all riled up and speculating. Get to know them. Or at least let your children be friends. Once older diverse discussions can be hand. And learning to discuss many sides of a topic is a great skill. Knowing how to speculate and guess and out down others is not a skill, is a bad character trait.[/quote]

Do you think this holds true if OP's daughter has a racially/ethnically diverse group of friends? I'm okay exposing my kid to ideas I find offensive and having hard conversations, but I don't think it's fair to the parents of her friends to invite them to a party where a kid may say "my dad says your family is probably illegal" or "I'm glad my dad isn't a thug."[/quote]

Different poster, but this is my issue as well.  What is the line here?  I just take issue with the first hand part.  IF this little girl says something like  what you stated to another of her friends, it's fine to continue the relationship with the girl, because it wasn't firsthand?

People are goin on about the poor little girl and how she'll feel, but what about those poor little kids that have to be subjected to listening to her racism, or  who may have already dealt with it, but now have to  spend time with her in order to go to their friend's party.

I don't know the more I think about it, the more I am leaning towards no.  8 is not to young for this conversation in an age appropriate way. [/quote]

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