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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it really depends on the age. For a party, would much prefer kids stay until 10 pm than a sleepover.

Weekdays feel like an obvious no … but I have been a parent for a long time, and this has never come up.

I disagree about always having to serve food. My experience is kids barely eat besides cake, especially if it’s not meal time.[/quote]

I think you have to serve some kind of food but I agree the expectation that it be pizza or similar is silly unless the party is actually during a meal time. If a morning party ends by noon or an afternoon party ends by 5pm I would not expect any more than snacks and would have planned to feed my kid after anyway.

But I also have a kid who hates pizza and is picky generally so there is no benefit to me if the hosts DO serve pizza -- my kid won't eat it anyway. We've been to parties where they served tacos and quesadillas or hamburgers and hot dogs and honestly none of that is a hit either.

I think most of the people in this thread demanding a certain level of food mostly mean for the adults. And I do agree if it's not a drop off party and it's more than 90 minutes or so you need to provide real food for the grown ups. But again I don't really care what it is. I've been to morning parties where there was a big bagel spread with lox and cream cheese and veggies and fruit and honestly that was nicer than getting a slice of pepperoni pizza from dominos. [/quote]

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