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[quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry, OP!  That's beyond the pale. Every year there are some parents who are precious about siblings attending my daughter's birthday party, but your story is pretty bad.  When parents ask me at the last minute if they can bring siblings to a party where I've made it clear that siblings are not invited, I sometimes reluctantly agree but ALWAYS point out that I don't have a favor bag for them.  This year a parent brought two siblings and her own favor bags for them, which she asked me to give the extra kids.  The siblings did thank me at the end, and specifically thanked me for the favors (which their mom had brought), and I just said, "you're welcome."

Anyway, you would not have been out of line to say something like, "Mary's mom, I do not have favors for siblings who we did not invite to the party, as I'm sure you can understand." Or even, "We had to give my child's favor to Bo already.  If you keep making a big deal out of favors, my child is likely to get upset about not getting one because she had to give hers away to our extra guest.  I'd like to kindly ask you to drop the favor issue.  Thanks so much for coming!"[/quote]

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