Ignorant Mother: UPDATE

Even after my blog post, I was still upset and so I decided to take some advice from friends and write an email. I changed the names again...but you will get the point. Afterwards, I will sum up what the response was.

Dear Other Mom,
I just wanted to let you know that I was slightly offended yesterday after talking to you at gymnastics. I'm not sure if you meant it to be rude, but your comment about how 'Susie* does in one day what Riley has to do in two days' was very hurtful and something that should not have been said in front of Riley. I understand you were questioning why Riley was moved up and why Susie was not. I don't know the answer to that. We never asked for Riley to be evaluated and when we were called about the new class, we were excited to know Riley was making some sort of progress. I really felt as though you were making it sound that Riley didn't deserve to move up and wished that the conversation would have happened when she was not there.

Please understand I am not trying to be confrontational. I am not looking for an apology. I just felt awful after our conversation and thought you should know how I felt. With that being said, we probably won't be coming back to **the activity we were involved in** next year. It's not because of this situation or what the other mother said about Ronan. I think that it may be too much for her next year and we want her to be able to try other activities she might enjoy.
Take care,
Maria

Abbreviated response I got via voice mail message:

She basically said that it wasn't what she meant and that her daughter has been taking gymnastics for over a year and here Riley was already all caught up, blah blah blah.

My take on that:
Unfortunately, I can only take it with a grain of salt because what she should have done was apologize and left it at that. And had she had any tact, she would have just said in the very beginning that she was proud of Riley. Oh well. I'm not going to lose sleep over this. I am going to stick with surrounding myself and my family with genuinely nice people and walk away from those that don't care.