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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would probably just RSVP for you and DS, and explain that DH needs to stay home with DD.  That will give them the opportunity to invite DD.  If they are silent, then you have your answer.[/quote]

Yes, this.

And I hate "we can't invite everyone because it would be too expensive" is a terrible explanation. You have a choice to have a simpler event (wedding, bar mitzvah, whatever) and invite more people. You choose to pass. Fine. But it's not as though this decision was forced on you. Own it.

I'm also puzzled by the PP's suggestion that a 9YO can't appreciate the significance of the event. Really? Magically, at 13, they can, but before that it's just a mysterious haze?[/quote]

Take it up with G-d, honey. Jews reach adulthood when they become a Bar/Bat Mitzvah.  They are permitted to read from the Torah, which is no small thing. If you don't subscribe to this belief, that's fine, but it's not like the OP's neighbor made it up.  And certainly they are not being rude to exclude a child from an adult occasion.

Not to mention -- are you really saying you think a 9-year-old has equal capacity to understand this occasion as a 13-year-old?  That's absurd.[/quote]

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