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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So glad to know that this has happened to others. It happened to us, and for a while I wondered if it had something to do with my child.  Upon further reflection, I realized my son has many friends and is generally well-liked, and that iour bad luck was due to a busy season (soccer, baseball, Easter) and inconsiderate invitees.

[u][b]If you think about it, we do more parties now than we ever did; I don't think I had my first real birthday party until I was 8.  With all these outside activities, it's impossible to attend everything. For this reason, we don't do large birthday parties anymore.  We invite a small number of kids over to do something fun, and that's it. It's much more meaningful, I think[/b][/u].[/quote]

Yes I agree with this (the part I've underline and highlighted from your post, OP).  That is one of the reasons we have not done a "friends" bday party yet.  DD will be 5 in the Fall and last year she just had cake and ice cream at home with us and my parents (and a little cupcake party at her school) and this year, as a "step up," she'll have a little party with her cousins.  She thinks this is just about the most exciting idea she has ever heard of and is already counting down the days! ;)  [/quote]

PP here.  The hard part is when their very best friends at school have huge "event" parties, your child starts to ask why they can't have the same.  That was our mistake, when we attempted to do the same for my son (lesson learned!)  We now tell the kids that we simply prefer to hold small parties with close friends and to be sure, my kids enjoy them as much as any other party they've been to.[/quote]

Yes, all her friends have these big event parties too.  So far she has been fine with the explanation, "This is how our family does it," but I know she won't be as easy as she gets older.  It helps that her cousin closest in age also has a family b'day party at the beach every summer, so she has just come home from seeing that, and therefore is excited about it and thinks she is cool and gets to have a cousins party "just like _____."  Whew! ;)  [/quote]

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