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[quote=Anonymous]I can’t afford to host a whole class party for each of my kids. I’m sorry but that’s just way too expensive—30 kids in the class plus what if their parents stay and what if their parents bring siblings. We’re talking potentially 60-75 people! And my kids have winter bdays so we need an indoor venue. If they had summer bdays and we could have it at a park/playground, then I can imagine inviting the whole class.

As it is we let our kids invite 8-10 kids and it’s a mix of kids from different classes at school, different activities, neighborhood friends. We’d never do something like invite all the boys except 2 or all the class except 3 or whatever exclusionary thing you could imagine. For example, my son has 13 boys in his class including himself. His bday is next month and he’s inviting 4 boys from his class, 2 from the other class in his grade, 2 from his sport team, and 1 neighbor friend. I know there’s potential for some kid to feel left out and I don’t like that so we have been strict about saying he can’t talk about his party at school and we won’t distribute invitations at school. But there are tons of parties my son hears about and is not invited to and I think that’s just something kids need to learn: they won’t get invited to everything.[/quote]

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