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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]This is totally your daughter's fault.[/b] I'd be angry with her, not the mom. 14 is old enough to know that you already said no so she has to check with you first.[/quote]

I think doing nails at a sleepover isn’t something a mom should ask a teen’s parent for permission. She’s 14! Come on! Your daughter knew you didn’t want her to get gel nails and did it anyways. You need to talk to your daughter NOT the other mom. 
 
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+1  I don't like gel nails either but this isn't questionable parenting by the other mom, it's your daughter doing the opposite of what you told her to do and rubbing it in your face by sending you a picture of it.
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I don't think the daughter was rubbing it in OP's face. It sounds like the daughter had no idea that OP would mind. Either she thought OP said no because of cost, or maybe she forgot that conversation, or thought it was about something different? (I'm a woman, but I don' have a clear idea of the difference between gel nails, acrylic nails, whatever nails). She was just happy about it. I think there must have been some miscommunication between OP and daughter, but in any event, the mom didn't do anything wrong.[/quote]

OP says she told her daughter no about gel nails because they're bad for you, etc.  Then OP came on here to post about it being a mark of poor parenting for the sleepover mom, so I doubt she was breezy and casual in her "no" to her kid.  Somehow I doubt that the kid who didn't text for permission but did text to show off the finished product was miscommunicating (who texts their mom to show off a sleepover manicure?  Who texts their mom during a sleepover at all?).  My point is that OP needs to lay off the other mom because she did nothing wrong.  If there's a come to Jesus to be had, it's with her daughter.[/quote]

OP says why she told her daughter no, but she doesn't say that she told her daughter all the reasons.  She might have framed it as "I'm not paying for those, they aren't even good for your nails," which a kid might reasonably understand to be an objection primarily to the cost.  It's not like gel polish is actually dangerous or risky, especially the at-home stuff.  [/quote]

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