I canceled the sleepover

[onionsoupmix]

My 8 year old was going to have a sleepover for her birthday party. It was a big deal, with lots of planning and excitement. Making cupcakes, seeing a movie, getting their nails done, etc.

We invited a few kids from the neighborhood, one of them was our secular ( possibly not Jewish?) next door neighbor's kid, a cute second grader.

Today, one of my

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don't understand

[anonymous]

I don't get it. Why'd you punish your kid for something that someone else did?

Re: don't understand

[onionsoupmix]

she went along with it.

Re: don't understand

[anonymous]

Hmmm... well, I can see why you'd want her to also understand how wrong that was, but it does seem a bit severe. After all, to expect an 8 year old to take a moral stand on something and have to stand up to her friend...? Sounds like you've set a really high bar there.

Re: don't understand

[hamaskil]

Sometimes you don't want to humiliate a person by telling her she's wrong when everybody else is present. And chances are she'll accept it better in privacy vs. admitting her wrongs in presence of everybody else.

Re: don't understand

[anonymous]

You are a machshefa. I hope that when your husband has enough of you, that he gets custody of the children.

You sovki take everything from everyone - Chabad, the government, the Federation - and then you bite the hands that feed you.