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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm probably the outlier on this - I have an only child, but if someone didn't expect a sibling to eat food that I provided, be paid for by me at a venue, or get a loot bag, I would not feel the need for them to tell me anything about the sibling. They can pay for them, feed them, and entertain them themselves without notice to me.

But if the host doesn’t know the sibling is coming and sees a sibling walk through the door, they might feel obliged to include them, give them cake, have a goody bag for them, etc[/quote]

We always have extra cake, so that would be no problem.  I wouldn't have a goody bag for them, nor would I feel obliged to offer one.[/quote]
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I had someone bring multiple extra younger siblings to a party.  I didn't have a problem with them eating snacks or cake (I always have plenty of both), but I just said that I didn't have enough favors for all the kids (and the favor was a craft that the kids made, so the uninvited siblings couldn't do that, either, because I only had enough supplies for the invited guests).  And I didn't feel obliged to include them in any of the activities or to scramble to give them a favor.  The invited kid was old enough to drop off (at our home).  [/quote]

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