At what age do you stop inviting out of town family for your kids birthday parties?

[Anonymous]

We never did.

[Anonymous]

We never started, OP. I think you should tell them they're welcome, but you understand if they can't make it.

[Anonymous]

We have never done this….

[Anonymous]

Be grateful they come!!! My family had to be forced to come to my DD's first birthday and then bailed at the last minute.

[Anonymous]

I told the grandparents the kid (4) would be busy on the bounce house and playing w his friends but they were welcome to come if they wanted to. They decided to come on different days, and each set of grandparents got to spend a day with just him/them which everyone seemed to enjoy more.

We never did bday parties before, bc covid/moving/etc and bc before 3-4, seemed like the party was entirely for the grownups and I didn’t feel like it.

[Anonymous]

Out of town family came for the parties at age 1, 2, and 3 because they were family and family friends (with associated kids) only. Age 4 they had gone to a few pre K kids only bday parties at play spaces, etc and wanted a friends bday party too. So we stopped. The out of town grandparents did ask about a month prior if we had made any birthday party plans, my husband explained that we were switching to kid friends parties this year, and they were like oh that makes sense. No drama.