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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you bring uninvited guests, you're saying that your convenience outweighs the plans of the host. You wouldn't expect them to reschedule it if you can't make that date, would you? Sometimes you can't make it. If you can't make it without bringing an extra guest, this is one of those times.[/quote] +1. The entitlement of some PPs is truly appalling. Especially the ones trying to couch it as ungracious on the host's part, to not want uninvited siblings. Unbelievable.[/quote] It's incredible to me that in one or two generations manners have devolved so greatly and entitlement has become so significant. When we fortysomethings were kids, our parents understood that birthday parties were for invited guests. They didn't expect to foist off their extra kids on the hosts. Now parents view a party invitation for one child as an invitation to bring all their (sometimes poorly behaved) kids for free entertainment, food and drink, and goodie bags. When that's not the case, they label hosts as rude or ungracious. Perhaps worse, they inadvertently teach kids that they're always invited everywhere and always should be. [/quote] Funny, I would say that the entitled person is the one who thinks that their 2 or 3 year old needs a birthday party with goodie bags, and expensive entertainment. We never took siblings to birthday parties when I was a kid because parties were little things you had in the backyard when you were old enough to stay without your parents. The only parties I would have gone to with my parents in tow would have been for family or family friends and then of course the whole family would have come. I think that expecting parents to provide childcare at your party, and not accommodating their other children is ridiculous. I also think the argument that "we'd have 20 extra kids" is ridiculous. In my circle of friends the norm was to invite siblings. Older siblings rarely came as they usually had their own weekend engagements, so at a toddler birthday party you would have some babies in arms (who generally, in my experience, don't need to pay or put up a fuss about goodie bags), and maybe a couple of close in age siblings. [/quote]
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