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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are allowed to throw the parties they want for their kids, in whatever manner and style they wish, with the guest list they choose. What is with this entitlement of my kid should be invited to every party? It's utter crap and contributes to all the candy-ass kids falling apart when the least thing doesn't go their way as adults. Sure, it sucks not to be invited but THAT'S LIFE.

As adults do we invite every adult we know? Nope. How did we learn to survive the blow? By experiencing it in childhood in the safety of our parents' care when they could explain to us that not everyone gets invited to everything.[/quote]

100% this.

OP, it sucks to be excluded, but the reality is that not every guest list can accommodate every person that your child is friends with.

In an adult example of the situation, a woman who is a really good friend did not invite me to her wedding. We had been close for about 6 months before the wedding occurred. Wedding was not small and people we were friends with (who had been friends with her longer than I had) were invited. Instead of distancing myself from my friend or talking about her behind her back, I congratulated her on getting married, asked if I could take her and her DH out for drinks to celebrate with them when they got back from honeymoon, and moved on with my life.[/quote]

I would definitely not create a scene over this, but this would say volumes about what I and my friendship meant to this woman. And that would be, she does not value it. Friendship is a 2 way road and all that.[/quote]

6 months is very little time.  I have friends that I've had since high school.  I think the bride probably had a set limit and there were older friends/family that had priority on her list.  Maybe the 6 month friendship will evolve, or maybe not.  I can tell you that my "newer " friends are great, but my older friends are like family.[/quote]

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