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Preschool bday invitations: mail or put in cubbies?

MediaBrideMediaBride
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I was originally going to put them in the kids cubbies (the parents/caregivers get their stuff out of their cubbies after class), but I had a weird experience during the holidays that makes me wonder if I would be better off mailing them.  In a nutshell, I was in charge of a group gift and even though I emailed AND put letters in cubbies, some people just did not respond at all.  I have a thing about people not RSVP'ing (I think it's just plain old rude), but I wonder if some of them never got the info... maybe the caregiver didn't pass it on etc.

I know this is not a big deal at all... but it's our first experience with inviting school friends to his party.  WWYD? 

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Re: Preschool bday invitations: mail or put in cubbies?

  • michelcreekmichelcreek
    Cubbies.  You can follow up by email if people don't respond.
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  • JCS2007JCS2007
    Cubbies, if they are not going to respond by cubby, they likely would not respond if received in the mail either.
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  • MediaBrideMediaBride

    imagePMQ:
    Are you inviting the whole class? If so then I would say go ahead and put them in cubbies. If not I think hand delivering, snail mail or email are better options.

    Yes, inviting the whole class... it's a small class (15) and they all actually get along really well.  He's super excited since it's his first REAL friend party :) 

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  • littlemermaidlittlemermaid member
    If the whole class is invited I would just put them in the cubbies.  Most likely they got your group gift letter but people are just rude when it comes to RSVPing.
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  • jlw2505jlw2505 member
    At my younger DD's daycare, people put them in the parent folders.  The kids never see the folder and the other parents can't see into anyone else's folder so their is not the issue of people feeling bad if not all get invited.  Honestly, with many of my younger DD's friends, I don't have the home information so I can't mail them.  If they don't respond, I leave a little not reminding them to respond.  With my older DD, in PreK, the invites that have been for the whole class have been in the parent slots but the ones where it is only a few invited, those have been mailed.  I will do the same and mail them as we won't invite the whole class.  We got a class list in the fall so I have all the emails, addresses and phone numbers.
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  • MediaBrideMediaBride
    imagePMQ:
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    imagePMQ:
    Are you inviting the whole class? If so then I would say go ahead and put them in cubbies. If not I think hand delivering, snail mail or email are better options.

    Yes, inviting the whole class... it's a small class (15) and they all actually get along really well.  He's super excited since it's his first REAL friend party :) 

    Then definitely cubbies are fine. A first real party is exciting!

    When it comes to the group gift thing that people didn't RSVP to...that's a bit tricky. It's hard to respond "no, I don't want to contribute to a group gift" so I can see why some would just not respond at all.

    I totally agree... which is why I didn't make any further effort to reach out to people that I did not hear from.  The thing that sucked was that we were trying to get a group collage to give to the teachers, so I asked that even if they did not want to contribute to teh gift (which was fine), that they email me a photo (or put it in my son's cubby).  I had several no responses for this and of course I overheard a mom complaining that her sons photo was not in the collage (she did not respond).  Sometimes you just can't win :) 

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