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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re a loon OP[/quote]

For not wanting DD to lose friends by talking about things she shouldn't? Mmmkay. [/quote]

She’s not going to lose friends if she said she went to camp or on a trip or to a water park. All kids have different summers. Your kid probably won’t see most of her classmates this summer since they’re in “daycare” and yours isn’t. By the time school starts it won’t matter what your kid did all summer.

One thing that’s annoying is you’re not acknowledging that those kids will also have cool experiences of their own this summer. They’re not the same ones as your kids’ but they’ll be special anyway. They’ll have fun outings with their daycare/camp. They’ll have pizza and movie night with their family. They’ll have cousin sleepovers or neighborhood hangouts and bike rides and makeovers and any manner of small thing that makes childhood summer so fun that has nothing to do with how much money your parents threw at you. They’re not beleaguered little Dickensian orphans- you’re pitying them when you have no reason to. [/quote]

I had absolutely blissful summers growing up.  We weren’t wealthy and didn’t go to camp (my mom stayed at home) or go anywhere except the local pool and the playground and the library.  Very small town, nothing to do but read and play with my sister and the other kids on the block.  It was wonderful.

If I had a friend who bounced all over the place all summer I wouldn’t have been jealous; I would have been sorry to miss them all summer but excited to hear what they’d been up to again in the fall.  Maybe a little sorry for them that they were missing out on all the mundane adventures we were having at home.

Now if my friend was cagey about their friends before or after the summer, I would have felt hurt like didn’t like me any more or had made summer friends and thought they were more better than the rest of us.  Don’t intentionally drive a wedge between your DD and her friends, OP.[/quote]

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