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About DD and birthday party?

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toastandtwo · 19/02/2025 18:02

DD11 is going to her friend’s party this weekend. The party is escape room, back to friend’s house, sleepover. She can’t make the sleepover because she has a full day of swim meet starting early on Sunday and she’s ok with that.

Where I’m not sure if I’m BU is the escape room. It conflicts with her other sport (trampolining) which is a sport we only agreed to her doing because she begged and pleaded - she already has a huge amount of time swim training and already misses a lot of trampolining because of swimming. So if I work out how much we are paying per session, it doesn’t look good 😆 Plus we’ve done an escape room as a family and she wasn’t really that keen on it so it’s not like it’s a favourite activity.

I’ve said I’ll take her straight from trampolining to the friend’s house and she can stay there til late in the evening but she thinks this is VU.

So am I being too strict or is it reasonable for her to miss both ends of the party but still get about 6 hours with her friends?

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MoiraSuppose · 19/02/2025 18:09

She can't miss two parts of the party. Confused

They do have to miss stuff. My dd competes in her sport nationally but she also has a social life.

Ddakji · 19/02/2025 18:09

I would let her go to the party but I would readdress the trampolining.

Weekend activities will get in the way of birthday shenanigans so she needs to accept that she can’t have both, especially if she’s doing a lot of swimming.

MissUltraViolet · 19/02/2025 18:08

Let her do the escape room. Bit silly to go just for the boring middle bit and miss both best parts.

Randomease · 19/02/2025 18:07

Sounds like a really mean thing to do.

MummaMummaMumma · 19/02/2025 18:07

Let her go to the party. She's already missing the sleepover.

Moonnstars · 19/02/2025 18:07

She is already missing the sleepover so missing the escape room as well would mean both of the main parts of the party she misses out on. Dropping her off after and picking her up late is no different than a normal playdate so I can see why she things you are BU.