8 bridesmaids one week, 6 girls the next. . .

Lynae N.

June 6, 2010 - 8:26 PM

Oh my goodness! I can't even begin to tell you how chaotic this weekend was for me and my husband. It was our daughter's 10th birthday and we planned a party at the park with her friends and their families from her new school. We really wanted to get to know everyone better and establish relationships strong enough for Shae to have a fun summer full of friends and sleepovers etc. In our brilliance, we decided that it would be fun to invite all 10 girls from Shae's class over to our house for a sleepover after the party. All said and done, there were 6 of them who came and our house turned into a den of sugared up preteen girls with an agenda to run rampant.

I learned so much this weekend watching these girls and their social processes. I talked about this with Brian and it seems like every social process and interaction that happens for adults happens for these girls only everything is sped up 10x's over adult interactions. Every little issue that becomes a misunderstanding becomes tears, taking sides, a stand off to see who will be the first one to move towards the other (admitting defeat), they are met with silliness, and suddenly they are best friends again. All of this could happen within a 15 to 20 minute time span. Multiply this by all the combinations that can possibly happen with 6 girls and add in a sugar induced craze and that was my world. Dizzy!

But all in all I am glad we made the decision to have them all over. I got a chance to know the girls and their families better as planned and despite their way of working out issues, all of the girls remained friends and had a blast together. Shae had a fun birthday and my husband and I got very hard earned naps.

I wrote about my interaction with the 8 teenage bridesmaids this past weekend, and now the 6 girls this weekend. It has been amazing to find myself still standing after all of this! If I had to rate them, I'd choose the bridesmaids over the girls for that long of a time period for one reason; they listen better.The good news is I grew as a parent. I survived the two weekends and have a slower week free of classes with just a few clients to see and finishing up my paperwork for the process of transferring my cases over. Then the weekend again. . . and this one is all about me and my accomplishments over the past two years and that will be a nice change of pace.