May 15, 2025 at 10:35 pm

She Fed Her Daughter And Her Friends Junk Food At A Sleepover, But Another Mother Got Mad At Her About It

by Matthew Gilligan

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Aren’t kids supposed to act like kids once in a while?!?!

I sure think so…but I guess some parents don’t like it when their children stray off course.

One mom wants to know if she did anything wrong when she hosted a sleepover at her house for her daughter.

She didn’t think she did anything wrong until a mom of one of her daughter’s friends called her out on her choices.

Take a look and see what you think.

AITA for feeding my daughters softball team “junk” at our sleepover?

“I, 35f have 3 children all enrolled in extracurriculars. My oldest daughter who’s 13, plays in softball and has for years.

I live in a smaller town, so I know the other girls parents and we are well aquatinted. I even consider a few of them friends.

We take turns having big huge sleepovers for the girls at our homes and this weekend it was my daughters weekend.

We had never discussed what we should and should not feed the girls, just allergies and such so I didn’t think there were “rules.”

My other child is also in sports and I have never had complaints about this either and I’ve hosted these sleepovers before, just not this season yet and there are a few mothers newer parents to the team.

Sounds normal to me!

Anyways, I had bought the girls pizza and breadsticks, and had pink or regular lemonade offered for dinner.

I also had a lot of snacks, mostly chips, but I did bake some brownies as well.

The next morning I had just got a lot of Dunkin’ Donuts. It’s 15 girls I’m feeding so I figured it was easiest because these type of things feed a lot of children.

My children don’t normally eat like this either, I just was excited for the first sleepover at our house this season.

Anyways, I’ve gotten some complains from the newer moms to have joined the group in our group chat, and have said that I shouldn’t be loading their children up on sugar and junk food and how their kids don’t eat like that at home.

Lighten up!

I replied back that it was a sleepover it was suppose to be a fun event for the girls so what was the big deal?

That offended them; they accused me of undermining their parenting and said there daughters wouldn’t be coming to my daughters sleepovers anymore unless I decided to feed them better food.

This caused an argument because like I said no one has ever mentioned what they feed the children at these sleepovers, and there was never any “rules.” I thought it was fair game.

I then again said it was just fun food, it was a slumber party, and a few of the other parents agreed with me.

A few hours later that mother replied in the group chat that her daughter would no longer be coming to any events at my home since I couldn’t see that fun food was just a different word for junk. Then called me a lousy mother for feeding children up with that stuff, then left the group chat.

AITA?”

What do they want the kids to eat at a slumber party? It sounds like normal party food.

Reddit users shared their thoughts.

This persons said she’s NTA.

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Another reader agreed.

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This individual shared their thoughts.

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Another person had a lot to say.

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And this reader spoke up.

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Some people have to take the fun out of everything…

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