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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never invited my kids' whole class to parties, and never all-boys or all-girls. Usually a handful of school friends (boys and girls, few enough that it wasn't like all girls except two or something) and a few neighbor friends (boys and girls). [/quote]

+1.  When my child was in that sweet spot of birthdays between about ages 4-10 we usually ended up inviting about 10-12 kids.  Always a mix of school and neighborhood friends, and often a mix of boys and girls depending on the year.  In most cases, they kids also spanned homerooms so it was never even close to inviting a whole classroom.

The point of all-class or all of one sex is to avoid exclusion of one or two kids, who most likely will find out about the party and be hurt.  You can easily avoid that by considering the construct of the list of guests you do invite.  Similarly, I'd try to avoid inviting all but one child from the sport team or scout troop or something, but generally it can work out without inviting 25 kids.[/quote]

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