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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I was SUPREMELY uncomfortable doing this, but I just basically told her it was up to DD to invite her friends, as we were having very few children at the celebration.  It was truly awful and I'm still reeling from it, honestly.[/quote]

So you asked your daughter if she wanted to invite this girl.  WOW.  Way to raise a mean girl.  
Why not talk to your daughter about including her.  You don't know why this party is important to her, but apparently it is.  How flattering this is for your daughter.  I would want my daughter to take the high road.  When she gets there, she is sure to meet some classy girls!  [/quote]

Wait, how is that mean?  "DD, we can't invite everyone in your class, but we can invite 5 girls.  Which 5 do you want to invite?"  Her daughter is 10, she's clearly old enough to identify who her bestest friends are.  I agree this would be awful if there were only 7 girls in the class, but let's assume that she's inviting 60% or less of the class, why on earth can't this young lady articulate with whom she wants to celebrate without being labeled a mean girl?[/quote]

It is mean because the OP is teaching her daughter that the little girl who is left out may be going through a hard.  In this situation, I would come from a place where there is always room for one more.  Mothers teach their daughters how to be bitches.  This is how they do it.[/quote]

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