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Birthday Question

new+tothisnew+tothis member
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I'm a lurker but have a birthday party question. How do you handle siblings? DS is almost 4. Most of the kids we are inviting to his party are 4 and from a small moms group I joined when he was a baby. Most of the moms now have 2 kids. Where we are having DS birthday we are limited to 12 kids. I figured we would invite only the sibling pairs we are close with because it seems unfair to invite someones almost 4 year old but not their younger sibling (most of which are 2 years old). DH thinks we don't need to invite the younger sibling.

Then how will it work for DDs birthday in October? We will probably have it at a kids play area for kids under 5. Do we invite sibling pairs again (the older siblings will be close to the max age) or only the younger siblings? Again I vote for pairs...
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Re: Birthday Question

  • Spin313Spin313 member
    We do home parties, partially for this reason. I don't want to have to pay an extra $100 to cover everyone's siblings!

    Personally, I think it's okay to only invite the older/younger child. Depending on the location, you can do a "siblings welcome, but parents will need to cover their entry."
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  • new+tothisnew+tothis member
    edited February 2014
    Diapers&Wipes said:
    I had DDs party on Saturday.  DD has seven friends with younger siblings so I invited the whole family (all kids plus both parents).  In all honesty, I probably wouldn't attend a party if I had to leave one of my kids home.  If it was a drop off party I would have no problem just dropping DD off, but if I have to be there it's nice to invite the whole family.  
    That's my point! Whenever we get together all the kids come (siblings and all). At least in our group parties aren't drop off. All the moms hang out while the kids play. It just makes sense to invite everyone in a family.

    ETA: My plan was to invite all the kids and siblings we are close to / see regularly. There are a couple kids / families we don't see often and I wouldn't invite them (I don't usually get invites for their kids either).
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  • Mrs.GregMrs.Greg member
    If they are friend friends, I would invite the younger siblingd. But if you are inviting preschool friends, I wouldn't include younger siblings. Sounds like most of the kids are friend friends. I just wanted to show a scenerio where I wouldn't include siblings on the invite and I would never expect to bring all of my kids if only one was invited to a party.
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