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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]thanks- I'm the OP.  I thought about letting him decide.   My problem with that is that we are a 1 car family.  One of our other kids is also enrolled in the sports class, but not invited to the party.  A third sibling has neither.  The sports class is not very public transportation accessible.  The party is a long way away.   So if the car goes to the party with one parent, the other parent needs to take both other kids (one of whom is not in the class) via taxi to sports class- which doesn't really work very well.

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Or one parent drops off 2 kids at the sports place and takes the car to birthday party.  At end, that parent comes back and picks up sports kids.  I know, you'd get to the sports place earlier than you should.  So you go to coffee/milk and donuts nearby.  Or you bring some toys/books to the sports place and you hang out until lesson.  Or you go for a walk around the block until sports class starts.  I bet you could figure it out.  for a child who doesn't get invited to birthday parties very much, it might be important to HIM to go.  AND so that the other kids can see that he is "a kid who gets invited to birthday parties" and so the other kids see him outside of school, at a party.  Sometimes that kind of stuff snowballs and he will get invited to parties more often.

I dunno, but I'd try really hard (and, yes, that means inconveniencing other kids) to go to the party this time.

But IF you don't have him go to the party, I think you tell him he was invited but because it's during the time you take your sports class, we can't go.  Bummer.  Maybe next time. [/quote]

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