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My Daughter Started a Controversial Group Chat. Now the Local Moms Want Vengeance.

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An 11-year-old girl started a group chat on her phone that got her friends in trouble.

The other families took it as my daughter influencing their daughters in immoral ways.

I feel ashamed and humiliated, and I don't know what to do. My daughter is a good kid and I am not a bad mom. I think part of it is cultural because they are both immigrant families from more conservative cultures.

My mom has spent the last six months making fun of us, asking if we really wanted to go, talking about how stupid it was.

She also spoiled the surprise for my child and didn’t even care. The whole family was invited on the cruise! She thought it was dumb and declined! Well, all of us had a blast. We are already talking about the next one..

A problem arose with their cousin, 11, a good kid, but like all kids, he has foibles.

He kept going on about how great a skier he was and complaining to my boys that they wouldn’t take him on “double-black” diamond terrain.

My oldest finally got exasperated and took him up to a lift that led to a terrifying-looking descent.

As soon as they got off the lift and my nephew got a look at the hard descent, he freaked out and began to bawl. My son let him go on for a few minutes before revealing that there was an easier way down.

Your sons displayed patience until it became unt.

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