My daughter was ignored at a party by the birthday girl's mum

"I feel like I should tell the woman she was very rude and cruel." 

Most parents will confess to being socially protective of their children - especially when they're little.

And especially when it seems that they have been treated poorly.

So it's understandable that one hurt mum posted about her four-year-old being rejected at a recent birthday party.

There's just one problem... the little girl was a party-crasher, and there's a good chance the adults didn't even realise who she was.

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"She turned her back on my daughter"

The aggrieved mum took to a parenting forum to ask for advice on how to handle the situation.

She explains that her daughter went to a trampoline park with her sister on a recent Saturday. She had to work, so wasn’t in attendance.

By coincidence, her daughter ran into some of her classmates at the park. They were at one of the girls’ birthday parties, to which the four-year-old hadn't been invited.

The girl was excited to see her friends and started playing with them, going back and forth to the table reserved for the party.

The mum claims, “The birthday girl's mum ignored my daughter and literally turned her back on my daughter and offered all the other kids a slice of pizza.”

Her sister took notice of the rejection and removed the girl from the table where she was not welcomed.

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Then the parents brought out a birthday cake with Elsa from Frozen on it. Because this was the little girl’s favorite character, she began to cry because she wasn't invited to join in.

The mum explains, “I do know she had no obligation whatsoever to include my daughter. But I just find it so rude and cruel to act like this with a four-year-old, especially being from the same class. I could never do it.”

She notes that it is possible that the hosts didn’t know who her daughter was but was sure the other parents in attendance at the party recognized her.

The woman is considering contacting the mum... or posting a message in the classroom’s parents’ group, saying something like, “We should all be nicer people, maybe to learn something for the future.”

"Your sister should have moved your daughter"

Many of the commenters did not agree with the woman's perspective.

One person wrote, “Sorry but your sister should have kept her away from the party group especially when food and cake was being served.”

Another added, “It's pretty rude on your part to expect your daughter to have been included when she wasn't invited.

“Those parties are pretty expensive per head and maybe she only had enough food for those actually invited.”

A third agree, writing, “Oh god what an awkward situation. It wasn’t nice for your daughter but to be fair if they were having a party the mum was probably just in the throes of cake for this girl.

“I’d take it as a kind of an oversight because she was in that stressed party mode. In the nicest possible way, your sister should have moved your daughter away from there, but I can see how that could have been really hard.”

Originally published as My daughter was ignored at a party by the birthday girl's mum