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[quote=Anonymous]I *threw* a birthday party at my house for a 4 year old recently, and for a 7 year old at a venue a month ago.  At our house, we had maybe 35 people here in total -- family, friends, family friends.  On the kid side, it was really limited to 4 or 5 of my daughter's closest friends and their siblings.

We had coolers of drinks and designated them as "boozy" and "not-boozy." The boozy options were assorted hard seltzers/lemonades & session beers & modelo (typical beer for parties in my neighborhood). The non-boozy options were juice boxes and seltzer. We served a meal and cake.  In our city (midwestern) it is extremely common for house parties of any sort to have alcohol at any time of the day -- I don't think I've actually *ever* been to a kid's party at someone's house that didn't have booze, even the brunches. Usually this is lemonade & vodka or mimosas if it's not canned stuff like I mentioned above.  I would imagine that obviously this isn't the norm as kids enter the "drop off" age.  :lol:

No one got wasted or close to it but I do think nearly all of the adults chose "boozy."  I don't think anyone would have really cared if the boozy options weren't available, but honestly it was really nice to have a White Claw and talk to other parents in the garden while the kids ripped around our house like little tyrants.

We didn't order beer at the venue for the 7 year old party, which was a more classic "invite everyone in the class, let them play with the arcade games, feed pizza, and dismiss" sort of party.[/quote]

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