Kids’ birthday party invites can often be a source of constant drama forparents. After all, they need to manage the number of invitations, the expectations and desires of their children as well as the demands of other parents. For their kids, adults can quickly become advocates, making angry calls when their offspring is excluded.
A parentwonderedif they were wrong to allow their eleven-year-old daughter to not invite the class clown to her Halloween party.We reached out to the person who shared the story via private message and will update the article when they get back to us.
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Parents can be pretty quick to make angry calls when their kid doesn’t receive an invite
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One parents got into some drama when they explained why another girl wasn’t invited to their daughter’s Halloween party
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Excluding someone is often pretty painful
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However, as some commenters noted, excluding a new kid is a surefire way to make sure they stay excluded. The parent in this story has the opportunity for a teaching moment and has decided to not take it. It is important to note that there are perhaps a multitude of details we are not aware of, but, at the same time, most folks who post these sorts of questions to the internet don’t really include lots of mitigating information about the other party.
This Halloween party drama is about more than just some invites
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This is a considerably more tricky position than one might think, given that the context is a girl’s Halloween party. It’s one of those complicated issues where acting “within your rights” doesn’t necessarily mean you did the right thing. There is no argument that random third parties can’t tell someone who to invite. But, at the same time, excluding a new girl might seem easy to the kid hosting the party, but the parents should know better.
Just as no one can force this girl to invite someone, no one can also tell this parent how to be a parent. Could this be a teaching moment? Yes, but equally, we can’t be crowdsourcing parenting decisions to the internet. Every adult knows their own kid best and, generally, has a lot better information on hand. It’s easy tojudge a parent“at a distance,” but it’s a hard job when it’s your child.
Some folks wanted more details
Many thought the parent was in the right
But a few thought it was mean
Some thought everyone was being unreasonable
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