| Do they have to go to every party? | | As many of you will know, my daughter is in her first year of school. She seems to be very popular as she has been invited to every child's birthday party since she started in September (including the one I thought she didn't have an invite for btw, that was a mix-up!)Today she went to a boy's party and was the only girl (among 15 boys) invited out of her whole year! In 2 weeks she is invited to another boy's party, one of only 2 girls invited, and I don't want to discourage her from being everyone's friend, as I think its a good thing, but for every party there are travel costs and gifts to buy.I can't really afford to do this 30 times in a year. Will the parents or child be offended if she doesn't go? I know my daughter will be upset, but its an expensive business. What would you do? | |
| | Teen dies of alcohol poisoning at school - who's REALLY to blame here? | | All right. Now, I hate my school for a lot of reasons that I wont list here, but one of them is the fact that it turns regular teenagers into alcoholics because theres nothing better to do=|So last year, we had some frat boy, party animal kid drink himself into a coma and died a few days later because he didn't know his limits. Now his parents went nuts and started suing INDIVIDUALS at the school - they're trying to sue the dean of studens, the presidents of greek life, 2 women who help with greek life activities... NONE of these people put the drinks in the kids hand, nobody knew what he was doing and yet somehow, nobody at the party is being blamed nor is the kid who ended up killing himself.Now, I realize the parents are grieving but suing right and left won't bring their son back, nor are they suing anybody who deserves to be sued. None of these people were involved in their sons death, and not all parties can be monitored, not all of them get broken up by public safety and not all of them have somebody responsible there to babysit.This just really frustrates me a lot, because my school is full of people like that and their parents. Nobody is willing to accept... | |
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