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[quote=Anonymous]I am having a birthday party for my first grader, it is at a venue that is not cheap ($30 per extra kid) but that is open to the public.  The entire grade was invited to be inclusive. I didn't mention siblings on the invitation at all, but I thought the default is that only the kid in the grade was invited.

One mom e-mailed me to ask if her kid's older sibling could come too.  She said if not, one parent could stay with the birthday party invitee and one could be with the other kid.  So, wait?  You have both parents available but you would rather that I pay for your other kid to come too?  I'm sure all the other parents would like that too.  I wouldn't think twice if you were a single parent, if your husband needed to work, or if our kids were close friends (and so had been invited to your house before and had met the older sibling).  Or even if you had invited my kid to your kid's party (okay, maybe the invitation was lost...maybe).

I don't know what to do.  It's not like there is a party number limit.  It's not like I'm not inviting any siblings (I have invited two siblings--one is from a close family friend who will be solo parenting at the time, and other sibling is friends with my older child and would keep him entertained during the party).  But, I feel kind of cheesed off because well I didn't plan to invite all siblings because that would more than double my party numbers.

What would you do?[/quote]

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