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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: Do I grass on my son’s schoolfriend?

She’s planning a 16th birthday party while her parents are away

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

Q. My son was invited, both verbally and via Facebook, to a schoolfriend’s 16th birthday party. However, when I met the girl’s parents at school and thanked them they said, ‘Oh, doesn’t he know he’s been culled?’ They said they had to be away during that exeat, so they’d told the girl to cull the numbers right back and just have a dinner for ten with takeaway pizzas and Netflix.

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