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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old are the kids?

If older than age 7, kids pick their own friends. I have two boys two years apart. When the kids were young (preschool and early elementary), we would do things together. We moved when boys were in second and fourth grade and there no group play dates. Now boys are 13 and 15 and there are several boys who brothers close together and there is not one set of two boys who hang out with my two boys. One is in middle school and one is in high school.

It is not cool to send siblings once kids are over age 7 or 8. This is drop off age.

When my boys were in preschool, there was a mom who had boys the exact same ages as my boys. She was very social and often invited my younger son. She never once invited my older son, including birthday parties. My older son said the kid was a jerk. Boys did not like one another. No big deal.

I now have 3 kids and I don’t like siblings at parties, play dates or outings. It is probably because I have teens now. It is just weird to throw in siblings who are not even friends.[/quote]

This isn't the issue. The issue is they invited the younger son and the DH, while excluding the only other child. That is mean. If they wanted to just invited the younger son, I get that.[/quote]

Pp here. I’m often the organizer and have never invited a set of siblings. We have let each kid pick a friend or two or three. I would never think to invite the brother of my child’s friend just because they are the same age as my other child.

I do not know how close Op is to the other family or if the older kids were ever friends. I’m not really sure what she means when she says same peer group. My boys have many boys in their same grade that they know but never hang out with. You are either friends or not.

It is also odd for OLDER sibling to tag along younger sibling’s friend hang out. It is much more common for a younger sibling to tag along.[/quote]

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