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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I think my biggest point of stress is attendance. How many people will RSVP and even then how many of them will actually show up? How much food should I get? Will my child be sad if only 2 people show up? Is this even worth it? We’ve moved around a lot, so maybe other people here have a strong social network and don’t have this anxiety?[/quote]

We have thrown a lot of parties and they have always been well attended. Even when we were brand new, my shy quiet kid had a well attended event. My kids birthdays are in Feb and March.

The only very poorly attended party I have been was when it was on a holiday weekend and another kid in the class had a party the same day.[/quote]

This can depend on school and community norms. My kid attended two different elementary schools. At the first one, few kids attended the birthday parties we threw (we always had plenty of other kids from other settings so it was okay). We also almost never got birthday party invites at that school. I can only think of one party she was invited to, in four years of attendance? At the second school, like 90% of the kids invited came to the party, including some that my kid barely knew, and she was invited to like 14 parties that first year (after that it quieted down a bit because older kids do smaller parties, but always 5 or 6 a year).

Some school communities just do not have birthday party culture. I suspect many families at our old school just did family parties or maybe their kid invited a handful of other kids from school but only close friends. Nothing we did changed from the first school to the second -- same sorts of parties, same time of year, etc.[/quote]

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