My car slid easily into the school lane. I turned around and glanced at the back seat as my ten-year-old daughter1. My daughter's words started to spill. "Momma, Jenny2all the girls in the class to attend her birthday party except for Heather and me. I 3 I was her friend too." The air was filled with her 4.
As tears ran down my little girl's face, I felt 5. As an introvert (内向的人)，I often breathe a sigh of 6 when I am not invited to a large social gathering. I prefer 7 with a few friends who get me.8, I don't extend my preferences to my daughter's social life. Since the age of four, rather than 9 just a few, I've invited all of her classmates to her birthday parties, because I am 10 to the need for young girls and boys to feel 11.
I understand that at some point all of us are excluded from something and that this is a 12 children will eventually learn. But why does it have to happen when they are so13? As soon as we got home, I hugged my still upset daughter and wiped away her tears. As I 14 her, I thought of her own approaching birthday party. The invitation would go out to 15of her classmates.
