A 45-year-old mom recently asked the Reddit community for advice after her spoiled daughter was unhappy with her Sweet Sixteen birthday party.
The daughter’s, sweet sixteen was coming up, and she had requested a ‘big party.’ Parties cost money, and Anna’s mother told Anna that there was just no way they could afford such a big event.
This made Anna extremely upset, which, of course, turned into a big argument.
It’s important to note that Anna and her mother had very different upbringings. The mother grew up in a poor neighborhood, whereas her daughter was far more privileged. She and her sister had their own rooms, whereas Anna’s mother could only dream of privacy when she was a child.
The mother states that her daughter often acts spoiled, saying: “We fight a lot, and though I, of course, love her, I often find her to be very demanding & entitled.”
Now, fast forward to Anna’s sweet 16 birthday. She requested an extravagant party, as most 16-year-olds probably do, but Anna’s mother simply couldn’t afford it.
This dragged on for several weeks, and Anna kept insisting that this was something she must have and labeled it a “milestone birthday.”
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Finally, Anna’s mother agreed after becoming tired of the endless arguing.
However, with such little time left to book the party, Anna’s mother ended up spending $1500, which was far more than she expected. She found a clubhouse, a DJ, and Chipotle for catering.
The day of the party arrived, and although the mom thought the party was a success, Anna clearly disagreed.
The DJ spent most of the night doing trivia with the kids, and Anna’s mom admits there was little decoration in the clubhouse. However, she had tried her best with the time she had available.
Once the party was over, Anna and her mother both drove back home without saying a word to one another. It was obvious that Anna was upset, to the point she didn’t even thank her mother.
The following morning, Anna claimed her party was “cheap and humiliating,” and she was so embarrassed. Anna’s mother stated, “She should be grateful she even had a sweet sixteen party, something I would never have dreamed of asking my parents for.”
The mother asked for advice online on whether she was in the wrong. She realized that she had not spent a long time planning and knew that she could not pull off the party that her daughter wanted.
One reader said: “Cheap and humiliating? If a parent on a budget spending $1500 on a teenager’s birthday party is “cheap” and “humiliating,” I’d hate to think about what’s considered affordable and acceptable.”
Another noted: “Tell me you grew up rich without telling me you grew up rich. My parents would never have spent 1500 on a party.”
However, some readers agree with the daughter, saying: “She literally just rented a big empty room for teenagers to eat cheap fast food and play trivia in. She may as well have taken them to bingo night at the Y.”
Another commented: “You made the barest minimum of efforts to give your daughter what she had asked for, to the point where she would have been better off if you had just said “no.”
What do you think of the situation? Should the mother have planned a better party? Is the daughter acting entitled?
Read the Reddit story here.
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