Silly situation but awkward all the same

[BigGlassOfRedPlease]

This is so ridiculous but it feels so awkward and I’m so socially awkward I could do with someone giving me some advice here! My daughter is 7, she has a small close group of friends at school. Lots of meet-ups outside of school over the years. Recently for reasons unknown, any time my daughter does anything with another friend in the group (Girl 1?) the other friend (Girl 2?) will kick up an absolute stink - literally it could be something as innocent as Girl 1’s mum collecting my daughter from school (I work shifts) and Girl 2 will be crying/complaining that they’re “doing something together”. If she’s ever caught wind of them having any kind of meet-up, theres been hugely dramatic crying and histrionics. For context, Girl 2 often meets up with my daughter or Girl 1 by herself and that’s fine. No fuss from my daughter or Girl 1. I find myself having to justify to a 7 year old girl that I’m working and so Girl 2’s mum is doing me a favour by picking my daughter up from school on the odd occasion. She watches the other girls like a hawk and will often stand waiting with her mum at the school gate to see if they’re leaving together. Her mum is often cool if she can see them together. It’s so silly but equally it’s so awkward. Would you try and address it with her mum? Or would you totally ignore it?

I'd totally ignore it

I would ignore it; if the mum isn’t intervening already then I doubt you’ll get very far. I’d keep focusing on that your DD can see other friends if she wants And it doesn’t always need to be this girl involved

Ignore else you're going to be feeding into the drama of girl 2 and her mum, who by the way is acting like a prize twat.

I would ignore it.

Sounds like the mum is stirring this or at the very least not nipping it in the bud

Ignore both of them. She may only be 7 but she needs to learn that people have relationships with other people outside of her and she will have a very unhappy childhood and life in general if she gets upset every time something like this happens

As others have said, just ignore it.