I think they're all really valid questions and points - and maybe the mum said, "no, you can't watch that, so if the other girls still want to, you're to come back home."
That's what my mum would have said
I suspect that Kim would like her so much, if she was the sort to say, "you can't watch that, so go impose our personal beliefs on everyone else over there in that den of iniquity."
But just as that 6yo will have to learn that her situation can't always dictate the day, the other girls have clearly learned the wonderful lesson that sometimes, we make a sacrifice to include our friends
I think I would have found it sadder if the other girls had turned around and said "too bad, we all want to watch this, and we're the majority, so you need to leave now, or play by yourself in another room for 90 minutes."
There's a time and a place for both (democracy and generosity) but I think it's so beautiful that these girls, at this tender age, were able to come to the decision that they did
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