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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm probably the outlier on this - I have an only child, but if someone didn't expect a sibling to eat food that I provided, be paid for by me at a venue, or get a loot bag, I would not feel the need for them to tell me anything about the sibling.  They can pay for them, feed them, and entertain them themselves without notice to me.[/quote]

100% this. Why are you ladies freaking out? There will probably be 100 other kids there. [/quote]

ITA. No one is going to tell me I can't bring my kid to a public venue that I pay for myself. [/quote]

So you’d take your toddler to a separate toddler area to play and not come to the bday party area at all except for drop-off/pick-up? That’s fine. But no one does that in my experience. They pay for the extra/uninvited kid to play at the play place but eventually, inevitably the uninvited kid makes their way over to the bday party area w the lure of snacks, cake, goody bags, their sibling and sibling’s friends and then host is put on the spot to impromptu hosting the uninvited sibling and offering them cake. Some hosts are fine w it and even happy to do it (I was totally fine w it when this happened at my son’s bday party a few months ago and a younger sibling wanted cake—we had plenty) but sometimes the host isn’t fine w it/doesn’t have enough and/or the uninvited child disrupts the proceedings especially if they’re a toddler! [/quote]

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