Oh that drives me crazy! My sister and her husband did that same sort of thing with their daughter and it got worse as she got older. When she was 10 or 11 she refused to come to a family dinner where we were celebrating a special occasion so they just let her stay home. Um, yeah, when I was 10 or 11 my parents didn’t ask me if I WANTED to go do something, they just told me to get ready to go and then we went. Now she is 13 and they have to fight to get her to do anything at all. It’s awful.

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