Posted on 11/07/2022 8:15:57 PM PST by Morgana
If the mother couldn’t be bothered to send written invites and personally call the parents regarding the party, I wouldn’t respond either. To post it on Facebook is just plain lazy and a crap-shoot because the parents may have not been aware there was an invite on FB.
Birthday party for a 3-yr old? Invited 27 children...from where?
Especially if they were really "friends".
WIthout knowing any other part of the story than what is in the article, you can have so much fun with responses.
1. maybe next time, you should said the invitations to the mothers, rather than handing them to 3-year-olds.
2. Next time, don’t hand out the invitations to random kids at the playground
3. How does a 3-year-old have 27 friends close enough to get invited to a birthday party?
4. When getting RSVPs, don’t just ask a 3-yo if they want to eat some cake.
More serious responses:
I can’t imagine doing a Bday party like that for a 3-year-old. But if I did, I would guarantee that I knew who was coming, because I would care about the 3-yo and not want them hurt.
Which means I would hand-deliver the invitations to parents. I would ask for RSVP. I would call those who did not RSVP.
I would probably call the RSVP parents, to ask if their children had any dietary restrictions, which is a polite way to check up on who is coming without sounding like you don’t trust them.
I would never have 27 kids at a 3-yo party, that is overwhelming. I guess you might invite that many assuming a bunch would not come. Nobody could possibly send out 27 random invitations and assume all 27 were going to come to the partty.
“3. How does a 3-year-old have 27 friends close enough to get invited to a birthday party?”
that one is easy she invited all the kids at the child’s nursery school, preschool or daycare. I can see there were be 27 kids in a nursery school.
When I was in nursery school one girl had a party and invited all of us. I remember it, and it was at the child’s home. Her mom served us hamburgers and fries and I remember I really loved the fries and the little girl when and got me more. Looking back I’m shocked at the hospitality of the child being that like me she was around 3 or 4 years old.
See my post 65
I forsee a Munchausen-by-Proxy situation coming soon.
Yeh, what’s next? faking cancer?
the party was for her...
you don’t have major parties for odd year birthdays, specially a three yrold
it was for her
“you don’t have major parties for odd year birthdays, ...”
Major parties on odd years? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
When I was growing up I can’t even tell you how old the kids were when I went to their parties. It was just fun, games, all the pizza, pop and cake we could eat. When I was little we didn’t have sweets often, even more so with pop. Remember back then all sodas were made with real sugar and not that corn syrup they use today. After all that sugar we were bouncing from the walls and there was no inflatable bouncy house for us to jump in.
wi 27kids??? you ran in different circles then me
parties that size are for 5&10yrolds not three...
but wut do i know, i’m old
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