It’s much easier to make friends as a child than as an adult. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy.
Sometimes people just don’t fit together – but if both parties aren’t on the same wavelength, things can quickly become uncomfortable.
This mother tried to gently reject the other child, but it didn’t really help.
You can find out all the details here.
My family and I moved to another state. It was a particularly difficult move for my oldest daughter, Katty. She is in 6th grade.
The local school district has a Facebook account that parents can join. I introduced myself there a while ago.
Meeting up to play seemed like a good idea.
We put Katty on the cross country team and she made lots of friends over the summer. Last week I got a message from a parent asking us to meet up and let the kids get to know each other.
They were in the same class and I thought this would be a good opportunity.
We were at the local swimming pool yesterday. I met Melanie and she was avoiding eye contact, speaking very quietly and seemed generally not paying attention.
The children were playing while I spoke to the mother. She is always in the area and was happy that her child had a friend.
But then her daughter wanted to leave early.
Katty came up to me and asked if she could leave as she wasn’t feeling well. We left early and in the car she admitted that she just wanted to get away from Melanie.
She explained that Melanie was driving her crazy.
She was very sensitive, constantly pushing them in the water, whispering (whispering things under her breath), staring at people, and making comments (comparing people to bugs? I’m still not sure what that means).
Katty told me she felt uncomfortable and didn’t want to hang out with her anymore.
When the other mother tried to do it again, she had to say no.
The mother wrote to me and asked when they could do it again. I told her that the girls were not a good match and that we would have to decline.
Then she called me and asked what I meant.
I told her that Katty had no interest in going out with him because they weren’t compatible.
I tried to be polite.
And she didn’t just use platitudes.
This went on for a while, and she told me that the children just needed to spend more time together.
I told her I wouldn’t do that.
This went on for a while, she wanted to talk to my husband and that’s when I freaked out.
I told her no, and that I wanted to be polite, but your child is weird. Melanie is making my child uncomfortable and I don’t know what the hell is wrong with her, but we are not going to meet again to play.
She went on Facebook and it was about how idiots the new family are. It doesn’t seem to be going anywhere but I wonder if I was an idiot
That’s tough.
I wonder if Reddit thinks she was a little too honest.
There was a certain part that people didn’t like.
The mother could have been more specific.
Life is too short.
I don’t mean to be mean, but …
This person was a little more undecided.
Some people just don’t understand a hint.
So you have to live with the whole truth.
If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws free accommodation in exchange for babysitting. However, things changed when they didn’t keep their end of the bargain.
