My very good friend is hosting a sleepover for her daughter's birthday party
Her three children are extremely violent and aggressive towards each other and towards her virtually all of the time
I have a seven year old daughter with Down Syndrome who sometimes gets caught in the crossfire...... although I hope she doesn't always get what's going on she understands more than she can communicate
After an afternoon yesterday of incidents culminating in one of the other children hitting my daughter over the head, I picked her up and left
I never said anything bad and the mum messaged to apologise to which I responded that I'd speak with her today..... I literally haven't slept a wink because I'm disturbed by the behaviour of the children..... literally screaming in their mum's face and putting fists up to her
I've now been asked what's wrong and having diplomatically said that sometimes I find all of the fighting and falling out overwhelming, I've been told that that's how it is in their house and basically it's understandable that I'm not used to it, having only one child
The tone was definitely one of "if you don't like it, don't come over"
I'm really really gutted that I've damaged friendships now, but I have to put my child first....am I wrong to think that any responsible parent would do the same?