Dear Wendyl, oy 12-year-old daughter is a great kid and has lots of friends. Recently, however, she wasn’t invited to one of her friend’s birthday sleepovers and she was really upset. It makes me so angry and I want to ring the parents and find out what’s up. I would never let my daughter leave someone out and be so cruel. What would you do? Jan, email
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Dear Jan, As the Spice Girls would say, “Stop right now!” No matter how delightful your daughter is, she is going to experience rejection. Do you want her to learn how to deal with it or do you want to wrap her in cotton wool? If she wants to talk about it, then by all means talk about how little it really matters, but don’t feed into feelings of being a victim or get on the phone and go to war. She’ll make and lose friends many times before she leaves school, so support but don’t interfere.Wendyl
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