Oh dear, the birthday party issue!

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Hello all

I'm not sure that I've posted on here before, but I have a developmentally

delayed (particularly in speech and language) 10 year old daughter whom I

homeschool due to the fact that we live in the French speaking part of

Switzerland.At a certain point it seemed important to concentrate on English to

make life easier for her, but of course we are surrounded by French.

I try my best to put her in social situations, but it's not always easy for her

since her immediate neighbours speak French (she understands a lot but is not

yet speaking it much). We mix with few other English speaking homeschoolers and

English speaking children of friends, though I would love her to be more in

contact with others.

Having said that, her 9 year old neighbour is a particular friend, even if they

don't see each other on a regular basis. I try to help out my neighbour by

looking after her two children when she needs help from time to time, and

otherwise the kids see each other playing outside and join each other.

To cut a long story short, they have always invited each other to their birthday

parties(unfortunately I didn't get around to doing one this year), but the

little girl was just here and dropped the fact that on Friday she is celebrating

her birthday as the local pool and wouldn't be inviting my daughter because she

doesn't know her other schoolfriends and she doesn't speak French.

Why do I take these things to heart? Any of you also caught out by the birthday

party test?

My daughter seems to let this stuff go over her head, would love to know whether

I am the only one with thin skin at times!!

Best wishes,