Today I took my son to a roller skating birthday party. My son has known the birthday girl since they were in pre-school together. When I found the invitation in my son's bookbag, I called right away to to RSVP. My son loves to skate so I took a book and planned to read while the kids celebrated. When we arrived at the party, I discovered that my son was the only male at the party. I told him to go skate with the girls and have some fun, but the girls ignored him the entire time. He really tried to socialize with the guests. I saw him several times try to enter the social circle. It was no use, the girls just would not let him in. He was so bummed, which made me upset too. We decided it was best to leave the party early.
In hindsight, I think the mother of the birthday girl should have stepped in. We have had plenty of birthday parties and I always include all of our guests. I'll be the first one to stay out of my kid's social affairs, but in this case, I think it was just plain rude. My son felt left out and was stuck sitting by himself at a table. Not cool!
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