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[quote=Anonymous]I think a 6 year old, when behaving very badly or engaging in repeat offenses, can certainly be punished by being kept back from an event like a sports game or a run-of-the-mill play date, or a pizza night the family was planning. All of these things are probably regularly occurring events, and we have taken them away on rare occasion. In our house, we make them up when the child has had time to chill for a day or two.

In THIS particular situation, it seems pretty severe to keep a child from a part where only two other guests are coming. I'd guess that there are two likely situations here:
1. either the kid did something really major, like s/he was having repeatedly violent tantrums and the parent was concerned about this being a problem at the party
2. parent didn't want to bother sending kid and issued punishment for a minor offense just to solve a scheduling or laziness problem.

Either way, see if you can loop in another kid. Or just go on with 3 kids, which is not that different than 4 in the end.

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