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[quote=Anonymous]This is so tricky. On the one hand, I don’t want anyone to feel they have to bring a gift to attend and most in our circle specify no gifts please on the invite so I don’t want our kid to be the only one having a gift party when their friends and classmates don’t.

However, I can totally see from the birthday kid’s perspective and when we were kids every party you brought a gift/received gifts! And that was fun too.

I think best thing to do is say no gifts please and then maybe just compensate for the gifts they’re missing out on from friends by getting your kid a few extra gifts from you instead. This way you’re also ensuring no duplicate gifts, no gifts your kid wouldn’t like, etc and that’s one aspect of having a gift bday party that would not be so great (your kid would be sure to get something they didn’t like, already had, wrong size, no gift receipt, etc) Because ultimately being more inclusive of all kids is more important to me (and also to my kids) than getting gifts from friends.[/quote]

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