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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish we lived the in Olden days  when “the more the merrier” was the rule of the day [/quote]
This is kind of thing that makes me laugh.

“The more the merrier” didn’t apply in the olden days.

Parties were hardly the spectacle they are now. Parents invited the two to five kids their kid was close to. Siblings may or may not have been invited, age dependent.

The party was most likely a home party, with a home made (Barbie or Dinosaur) cake. There was no entertainment, other than playing with balloons, streamers, and sometimes musical chairs or pin the tail on the donkey. There may have been a game of hot potato, freeze dance, and watching the birthday kid open their present. There was no catered 6 course dinner because was 2pm, and people may not have eaten, and had a collective requirement of 12 different dietary needs. It was cake, juice, and maybe hot dogs, if the time was appropriate to dinner.

You likely dropped off your kid with the understanding that your older kid and younger kid had friends of their own, and would be attending parties of their own, so there was no reason to include them to socialize them. If your family was included, it was becaus you were actually family friends, not just people looking for an easy way out of childcare or engaging kids for the weekend.[/quote]

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