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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please, please post one of the replies from the mother. I have to know how she defended this craziness. [/quote]

I can't bring myself to post them verbatim but basically my mom friend fired off an email that said to the effect please don't send out invites to a kids bday party that are really home sale parties.  Then went on to talk about  how rude, disrespectful and wrong this was. Follow up emails from other parents started and they said  how this was a terrible thing and shameful, some said they would never send their kid to such a party, how terrible home party sales were, which companies were really bad and why they were bad and then how terrible the parents were to exploit children.

The host mom then sent an email about how she was just tying to give her DD a fun bday party and no one was obligated to buy anything. This went back and forth with parents pointing out that there would be pressure to buy. Then host mom said she thought it was terrible that everyone was sitting on their "f*ing pedestals" and passing judgement on her and her family and how her sister had fallen on hard times and wouldn't anyone do the same to help a family member by hosting a party to help her start her business, how upset her DD was and was hiding in her room, and how people go to hell for acting this way, and also threw in some more F bombs here and there and then lastly mentioned a couple moms by name who had been pretty mean in their emails that if they had a problem with her that she was free to meet up with her outside at drop off in the morning.  So far no showdown has occurred though.

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Host mom sounds like a real piece of work. In one breath, she says no one is obligated to buy anything and in the next she gives a sob story about her sister having fallen on hard time. You can't have it both ways lady, obviously there was going to be some pressure to buy.

While I probably would have taken a passive aggressive approach myself, because I'm awful like that (Hi Jane, I'm confused and just want to make sure everything is clear - is this a party where Mary Kay items will be sold?  Are we supposed to send our girls to the birthday party with money to buy from your sister? Thanks for clarifying.) - I do not agree with those who are down on the mom that called her out. Host Mom was pretty underhanded about this, and maybe we need a little bit more calling out when people act atrociously. Maybe people would think twice if they knew they might get some blowback from violating social norms.

Host Mom offering to fight after drop-off is priceless. Clearly shows you what kind of person you're dealing with. [/quote]

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