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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh. I miss the days when you just walked around with whoever was in the neighborhood. Now, like everything else in their lives, it’s an orchestrated production. [/quote]

I turned down an invite for one of my kids for this reason. Halloween doesn’t need to be play date-ified. I don’t want to drive my kids to another neighborhood to ToT there and then go back and pick them up. It’s supposed to be an organic neighborhood thing- you walk out of your house, ToT at your own neighbors’ houses, walk with the kids who live near you, then walk right back into your own house to plunder your loot. No dates. No driving elsewhere. [/quote]

At a certain age, the kids want to go with their actual friends.  That’s probably what happened to OP. The other kid made plans with friends from school and his parents weren’t aware when they agreed to the traditional plan.  [/quote]

They clearly knew or they never would’ve texted OP about it. [/quote]

Or they texted OP when they found out about the plans.  They were telling her the kid made other plans.  OP viewed it as them cancelling, which they did.  But maybe the kid never knew his parents were still planning on this with an old friend from a different school.  [/quote]

That all is possible.  They still should own it (op’s friends) [/quote]

You are quoting me.  I’m wondering what they specifically said.  OP said she posted seconds later, which means she was emotional and mad.  I get it.  It’s your kid.  But maybe they did own it and she overreacted.

OP- how did they word the cancellation?[/quote]

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