Anonymous wrote:NP here -- different slant here -- seems a little not friendly, to me, to have a bunch of moms sitting in the back and for the host to not invite you to stay (not for the supervision but for the conversation).
Might be unfriendly or not. As a kid I definitely went to some parties where there were parents. Turned out they weren't the parents of the invited students but friends/co-workers/neighbors of the mom and dad. Some people think -- I'm already making food for this party and I don't want to be supervising kids alone all afternoon, let's see if 5 of my friends want to come over and hang out with me. So you don't necessarily know who those other moms were.