No food at birthday party from 10-1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think posts like these are helpful for parents who might not know the ins and outs of how to host a party.

You don't have a party that runs through lunchtime and not provide something to eat other than a mass dose of sugar.

If the parent couldn't afford food, then start the party at 1 - 3, or 9:30 to noon.

I agree and the couple of parties that I have been to where hosts didn’t provide food, it was not that they couldn’t afford it. It was just bad manners and hosting on their part. They could more than afford food.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes there should have been food.
However, if it wasn’t on the invite ( which u state it wasn’t) I would have asked the host just to clarify. If the host said no I’d have sent snacks with my kid.

Your kid can’t go three hours without snacks?

After swimming? No. Most people would need something in that time frame. Hopefully the kids were being loud about it so the host realized their mistake. I bet even the birthday child was hungry.

Are they doing laps for a few hours? Ocean swimming? Please. No wonder so many kids are obese. My kids go 6 hrs in between meals and there’s no need for snacks.

Sure they do. I guess they are home schooled then, liar.

[Anonymous]

Give them some grace. Maybe they’re new to hosting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have two kids 11 and 8 and we've been to many birthdays over the years. Majority of time it’s assumed some form of food will be served, or invitation will specify "snacks and cake" if there isn't going to be pizza or meal. Today my 8yr old DD went to a swim party. The invitation said 10-12:00 would be swimming, and then an hour in the party room afterward. Only cupcakes were served, and I guess the rest of the time was opening presents and playing games in the party room. My kid was starving by the time I picked her up, as were the other girls. They were all begging for parents to stop and get them something to eat. Am I mistaken to have assumed they would be eating during the 12:00-1:00 time frame after swimming for 2 hours?

Poor little princesses are hungry.ba hum bug

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes there should have been food.
However, if it wasn’t on the invite ( which u state it wasn’t) I would have asked the host just to clarify. If the host said no I’d have sent snacks with my kid.

Your kid can’t go three hours without snacks?

After swimming? No. Most people would need something in that time frame. Hopefully the kids were being loud about it so the host realized their mistake. I bet even the birthday child was hungry.

Are they doing laps for a few hours? Ocean swimming? Please. No wonder so many kids are obese. My kids go 6 hrs in between meals and there’s no need for snacks.

Sure they do. I guess they are home schooled then, liar.

Breakfast at 6:30am, lunch at 12:30 (at school) and then dinner at 6:30. That’s our day. Wake up at 6am and get home from school at 6pm. They go to bed by 8:30pm. This has been their schedule for years and nobody is passing out from hunger.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have two kids 11 and 8 and we've been to many birthdays over the years. Majority of time it’s assumed some form of food will be served, or invitation will specify "snacks and cake" if there isn't going to be pizza or meal. Today my 8yr old DD went to a swim party. The invitation said 10-12:00 would be swimming, and then an hour in the party room afterward. Only cupcakes were served, and I guess the rest of the time was opening presents and playing games in the party room. My kid was starving by the time I picked her up, as were the other girls. They were all begging for parents to stop and get them something to eat. Am I mistaken to have assumed they would be eating during the 12:00-1:00 time frame after swimming for 2 hours?

Poor little princesses are hungry.ba hum bug

Moron.

[Anonymous]

That is odd and I agree that food is basically implied in this scenario.

However…so what? So you get your kids some food. There you go. Problem solved. No need to run to the internet to whine about it. It really is OK if kids are hungry for an hour or two. You feed them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is odd and I agree that food is basically implied in this scenario.

However…so what? So you get your kids some food. There you go. Problem solved. No need to run to the internet to whine about it. It really is OK if kids are hungry for an hour or two. You feed them.

All of this. Why so mad?

[Anonymous]

I would guess that the hosts are clueless rather than cheap.

[Anonymous]

Yup, party fail. They definitely should have served lunch. That's kinda ridiculous seeing how many calories swimming burns and that hour of the party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are you hoping DCUM will do about this, OP?

OP is hoping the host will see this post and never do it again.

[Anonymous]

It’s not the norm for sure. We often have pool parties for one of my kid’s birthdays and we always have pizza. Mainly bc kids are hungry when they swim! Doesn’t matter the time.

[Anonymous]

I feel like the host found this thread early. If you have a party at lunch time, you need to serve lunch. If you have a party after any sort of strenuous activity, you need to serve food. If it's a 3 - 5 swimming party, you have some snacks and then cupcakes, but you have to have food after swimming.

[Anonymous]

Every once in a while I go to a party that just has a cupcake and all of the kids riot. It’s seriously strange. Once we had to stop for food on the way home because my kids were just melting down (toddlers after bouncing for 2 hours).

I go all out with birthday parties. No matter what great food I serve for lunch, they ask where the pizza is.

[Anonymous]

Should have had food.