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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no etiquette to whom you must invite to a birthday.  It isn't a school party, kids can and should invite who they want.

Now if your son is feeling left out, do your best to foster friendships outside of school.  Also, how did he know? If invitations are being passed out at school and parties discussed, I would send a note to the teacher.  I know our (private) school has a policy that party invitations are not to be brought and passed out at school and parties outside of school aren't to be talked about if everyone isn't invited.  The teachers go over this with the students at the beginning of the year so it is clear.  A large public school probably can't control this and doesn't care to, but if your child is at a smaller private school, I think it is appropriate to ask about.[/quote]

Who does paper invitations?

Everything is online now.

I say this as someone who used to pay someone to design my party invitations and actually mailed them a decade ago.

I can’t remember the last paper party invitation we received and I have 3 kids. Maybe when my oldest was in kindergarten.[/quote]

Not the pp but I still do paper invites. DD has always liked small parties less than 8 kids and all were her friends in and out of school. So I knew the parents and were able to mail them to the kids. I would never send paper invites to school cause I know it can cause problems. But DD did get a cute paper invite from a school friend that she had done herself with notecards. I thought that was sweet. [/quote]

Do you follow up to make sure they are actually brought home?  My oldest is in high school and I can remember 1 or 2 from him only, when he was in preschool. We didn’t have a directory so we did paper invites too when we had a preschool party. But my younger kids never got any. All have been online or lost and never made it home. [/quote]

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