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[quote=Anonymous]DD is 18 months old and is attending her first birthday party for a daycare friend where we don’t know the family well. (The party is actually for a classmate’s 3 year old sister.) The only other kid birthday parties my family has attended recently are for close friends’ children. In our friend group, the birthday child’s parents usually specify that guests should NOT bring gifts to the party. While a few guests may show up with gifts, the vast majority do not. It’s generally understood that gifts are unnecessary and, furthermore, not really wanted (mainly because most of our friends live in small spaces and are quickly running out of room for toys).

The invitation for this weekend doesn’t say anything about gifts one way or the other. We should bring a gift, right? DH is under the impression that people don’t really “do” gifts at young kids’ birthday parties these days, while I think the default assumption is that you should bring a gift unless you’re told otherwise. Help us settle this.[/quote]

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