'I excluded daughter's friends on her birthday - it's not their special day'
A frustrated mother came out swinging when she was criticized for surprising her daughter with a VIP experience on her birthday – but not giving the youngster's friends the same treatment. The 34-year-old former trapeze artist celebrated her six-year-old’s special day by taking her and three of her pals, from circus school, to see a Cirque du Soleil show.
“When I got there, I checked the company credits and noticed a friend of mine, an acrobat from Belgium, was one of the performers. I hadn’t seen him in years and sent him a message on Instagram just to say I was in the audience with my daughter and excited to see him,” she wrote on Reddit. “He replied almost immediately and told me to look for a stage manager after the show so we could say hi and I could take my daughter backstage.”
Accepting the impromptu invitation, the mom didn’t think anything of it and left her husband looking after the other girls, while they were given a quick 20-minute tour. It was only afterwards, when her ecstatic daughter wouldn’t stop talking about the behind-the-scenes sneak peek that she realized her chums might’ve felt left out.
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“What do you know, the same night one of the girls’ mothers called me to say her daughter came home crying because she didn’t get to go backstage, and that it was very poor form on my part to invite them to a party and to exclude them from one of the experiences,” she continued.
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“I tried to explain how things played out, but she kept being aggressive – until I finally lost it and told her she had no right to call me and try to reprimand me and should instead have a talk to her daughter about how to deal with such frustrations. My husband says I should not have instigated, and that in hindsight I shouldn’t have split the party.”
Most Reddit users felt the mother hadn’t done anything wrong. One exclaimed, “It was 20 freaking minutes to show your daughter a once-in-lifetime thing that’s relevant to her special interests on her birthday. The kids were safe and still got a free night out paid by yourself.” Another added: “There are birthday and life experiences that people get individually, and nobody is under any obligation to change that just to spare people’s feelings.”
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