T his is complicated, so bear with me...
My daughter, 6, has a Friend in school, Egyptian ,to whom she has been very close this year although she has voiced in many occasions that she doesn't enjoy her company very much. I can see why,because my daughter is the quiet type, and her friend is quite the opposite so they often crash.
The parents of this girl work, both of them, and somehow I have been having their little girl at home for lunch after school and taking her to share extracurriculum activities more often than what my daughter feels comfortable with, at least once a week, often twice, which I fear is causing my daugher to reject this girl even more.
Last week, because my daugher had been boasting about how much she enjoys her ballet lessons, the mother of her friend asked me if I could take her daughter as well to try it once, which I obviously willingly agreed. As its turns out, she wants to join and I suspect they take it for granted that I will take her now every week home for lunch and after to ballet as well. This would be ok if that's what my daugher wanted, but she not happy about it at all, she is actually very upset. I asked her why and she feels that her friend it's always "doing what I do and doesnt let me do anything".
funny enough, on Friday we had invited another friend from school that claimed that she didn't like this particular girl because " the other day I wanted to play with H (my daughter) and she pushed me."
So, I obviously dont want to upset anyone, especially this little girl and her parents are so sweet, and I feel they really appreciate me taking care about the girls friendship and having her at home so often and so on, but I don't want to deprive my daughter of her own space, that she craves and the feeling that activities that she has been enjoying for a number of years are also being invaded by her friend. What do I do? It's bothering me a lot.
My daughter, 6, has a Friend in school, Egyptian ,to whom she has been very close this year although she has voiced in many occasions that she doesn't enjoy her company very much. I can see why,because my daughter is the quiet type, and her friend is quite the opposite so they often crash.
The parents of this girl work, both of them, and somehow I have been having their little girl at home for lunch after school and taking her to share extracurriculum activities more often than what my daughter feels comfortable with, at least once a week, often twice, which I fear is causing my daugher to reject this girl even more.
Last week, because my daugher had been boasting about how much she enjoys her ballet lessons, the mother of her friend asked me if I could take her daughter as well to try it once, which I obviously willingly agreed. As its turns out, she wants to join and I suspect they take it for granted that I will take her now every week home for lunch and after to ballet as well. This would be ok if that's what my daugher wanted, but she not happy about it at all, she is actually very upset. I asked her why and she feels that her friend it's always "doing what I do and doesnt let me do anything".
funny enough, on Friday we had invited another friend from school that claimed that she didn't like this particular girl because " the other day I wanted to play with H (my daughter) and she pushed me."
So, I obviously dont want to upset anyone, especially this little girl and her parents are so sweet, and I feel they really appreciate me taking care about the girls friendship and having her at home so often and so on, but I don't want to deprive my daughter of her own space, that she craves and the feeling that activities that she has been enjoying for a number of years are also being invaded by her friend. What do I do? It's bothering me a lot.