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[quote=Anonymous]Oh, a hard lesson learned. I'm sorry about the feelings of uninvited kids, if it were only money (and not safety issues) I would have gone ahead and invited everyone even the sometimes violent kid.  I see now how this situation happened but at the time, I didn't anticipate it.

Any time there is any sort of party or slumber party, there is talk amongst the kids.  That's not something that can be avoided.  As we initially urged my son to invite everyone, he thought it was perfectly okay to verbally invite kids who really wanted to go.  I did add an additional kid to the party a day or two later  (because my son received his party invite), so there was no reason for my son to think our guest list was set in stone. My son is not very socially savvy and thought he was just being nice in extending invites to people who asked to come.  He didn't mean any harm and he truly thought that all the kids who didn't ask to come just didn't want to come.  I've talked with him and he now (I hope) understands and this will not happen again.

In unburdening myself, I was also trying to share the other side.  I wanted to let people know that even when mistakes are made, it doesn't mean that it was intentional.  As a parent, I've made many mistakes along the way.  Most of the time, it doesn't create this much guilt because those mistakes usually just affect us.  I feel terribly over this.  I regret the way we handled this party.  We will do our best to do better in the future. 
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