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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well I am glad this isn't a trend.

The whole thing blew up via email. I mentioned this to a mom I am friends with yesterday and asked if she had read the email/got the call. She had not but I guess went home read the email and figured it out and then fired off an angry email late last night to pretty much the whole grade about soliciting business at little kid parties and how wrong this was, etc. I didn't expect her to go off like that and I wish I had said nothing. Then again when she figured it out, she likely would have had the same reaction. Lots of emails back and forth with plenty of parents upset. It seems like a lot of girls won't be attending. The mom hosting fired back via email and was pretty nasty in her replies.

Bottom line - our DD is not going and I simply sent a thanks for the invite but dd can't make it and told my DD we made other plans that day. She seemed ok with it and I said if she really wanted to do a make over we could do something over the summer.
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I feel so sorry for the mom and the little girl. It was a not a good concept, but no one had the decency to call the mom and say "hey debbie, I am getting the feeling that a lot of the parents, me included, feel uncomfortable with the whole sales aspect of the party. All the girls love Larla and really want to celebrate her b-day with her. Is there any way to skip the sales aspect and just stick with some age appropriate makeover ideas and other activities? I don't want this to blow up on you, but the sales aspect was a big surprise, considering the b-day context".
Seriously, it was more important to get all morally superior instead of taking the high road and reaching out and now this girls party is fucked up because folks could not respond with grace instead of indignation. !![/quote]

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