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Feb 27th 2008 @ 10:44AM
Ilona Peltz said...
I am sympathetic with both sides of this. On the one hand, it's undeniably insensitive to exclude one sibling from a special event when another's included. On the other hand, the one child already has a special role from which their sibling is excluded, and no one would think it reasonable to insist he got to be in the wedding party just because his sister is. On the other, other hand: why exclude just one member of a family? How can the child not feel hurt?
Withdrawing the sister from the wedding party is one solution. A babysitter is another. Perhaps another solution is to plan a special event for the 7-year-old that will happen at the same time as the wedding. A sleepover and outing with a favored relative?
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