Advice needed please

[Whycantpeoplebekind]

Hi . Just looking for advice. My daughter began secondary school this year and is in a friendship group of 7 girls, who she ( and I) thought were fairly close. This week though one of the girls has announced her birthday slumber party, but not invited one of the girls . The excuse given didn't make sense , and could be easily solved if necessary. The excluded girl is gentle , and lovely and will be devastated by this. My daughter ( and I ) feel awful too. Any advice or ideas??

Its not a very nice situation for your daughter to find herself but that said secondary school friendships are hard work as they navigate peer groups and such .
Plus some teenagers can be just plain nasty bitches due to hormones.
Not much advice sorry but I would let them all sort it out amongst themselves.

It would be nice to encourage your DD to talk to her friend and say that it isn’t kind to leave one of the group out. On the other hand, there are regular threads on MN from posters saying their DC doesn’t want to invite a friend to something because they’ve said or done something to upset them, and the consensus is usually that nobody should have to invite somebody who has behaved badly towards them.