The Tough Call.

Saturday I was faced with one of those truely sad mommy moments. I had to tell my daughter she couldn't go to the movies with friend even though she truely deserved to go and we weren't doing anything better. What made it worse was that daughter #1 was going. Here's the story! We live by a pair of sisters (my age). Each had a daughter that corresponses in age with my oldest two. The two older girls had set up a date to go to the movies. Saturday morning my daughter #2 gets the call to go to the movies. The problem is I don't think that the mom is a responsible driver. She drives too fast and has taken to letting her two daughter, ages 9 and 5 ride in the front seat without seatbelts in a van with air bags. Very Stupid! Suzy (the mom) is divorced and it is like she has given up being a parent all together. She just wants to be her kids friend and they walk all over her. Anyway, I don't want my princess #2 riding with her. So I told her why. She is a very smart child and agreed with my reasoning but I could still tell she was sad. I was sad for her. There aren't any other girls that live around us so it is not like I can tell her to go play with some one else. Most of the time it is not a problem because I like to keep my kids really busy but every so often I have to make the tough call.