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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Wait what? Asking the host is rude? [/b]

My 6 year old was recently invited to a birthday party and I asked the hostess if my 3 year old daughter could come and she said of course, that she was happy I asked, and that she wanted all the other parents to know they should bring siblings but didn't know how to say that and that she wasn't sure which other kids had siblings. [/quote]

Yes, yes it is. [/quote]

OF course it's rude.  Why would a bunch of 6 yr olds want kids 3 and under around?  Answer:  they don't.[/quote]

Aren’t most parties drop off by 6 years old?

I’m not saying that every parent is comfortable dropping off their 6 year old, but you really can’t handle one unaccompanied first grader?  Does every child really need a parent with them? [/quote]

Not where I live (I wish!). 6 year old parties expect parent(s).[/quote]

One adult for each 6 year old in attendance seems entirely unnecessary.  What in the world kind of party requires a 1:1 adult to kit ratio for age 6+? [/quote]

They’re not ‘required.’

Parents stand around eating and chatting with each other, kids bounce/play like little maniacs.

I’m genuinely curious how parties in the DC area are now. My DC friends describe them as being like the kind I’m familiar with from my own childhood and where I live now,  but from this chain it seems like either parents are expected to helicopter over their kid or leave them, and that families don’t usually attend? It’s honestly just foreign to me.

And, again… back to the invitation thing. Are kids really getting invitations handed to them directly? That also seems odd.

But, although I don’t think it’s rude to ask in many circumstances, IF a kid is given a paper invitation with her name only on it, yes, I would expect that it is a drop off party where the kid alone attends. That’s just not how these things seem to happen in the first/second grade where I live. 
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