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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think two things were happen here and they both contributed to making this situation feel so much worse than it needed to be.

1) The adults who sat at the kids table were downright rude. You simply do not do that unless it’s painfully clear that the kids all have a seat. I’ve been to tons of birthday parties (3 kids) and I’ve never seen parents do this, so that tells me that it’s a particularly rude if not assholish group.

2) I think your son was tired and overstimulated and also clearly picked up on your anxiety over the situation. Again, I don’t blame you for feeling awkward because the adults at this party were extremely rude, but this would have been the time for YOU to take a deep breath and be a beacon of calm for your child. Instead, when emotions were already high, you raised the stakes further by threatening your son to leave unless he calmed down. At this point you were expecting more emotional maturity from your 5 year old than you were displaying.

Anyways, all you can do is move on. The situations when the adults are rude and your son is overstimulated are probably going to be rare and far between. [b]This is kindergarten — nobody is going to hold crying at a party against your kid. Unless this becomes a pattern, you’re fine. [/b]
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I don't know how it is at OP's child's school, but I also think first grade was when the really big all-class parties with 20 kids with parents started falling off more for my kids and it started being more smaller gatherings with some kids doing drop-offs. [/quote]

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