DS wanted a football party for his birthday this year so I booked one. He gave out the invitations yesterday (13 out of a class of 30) I told him to invite only the children who like/play football at school as if they didn’t then they would probably be bored. This is literally the only reason I didn’t invite the full class as I don’t want bored children at the party for their sake. A girl came over at pick up yesterday and asked why she wasn’t invited. I told her I wasn’t sure if she liked football, but she told me she did so last night I wrote her an invitation and gave it her in the playground this morning. When I passed over the invitation, another girl came over and asked why she wasn’t invited. I told her it was a football party but she is welcome to come. Her dad said “aw you can’t just invite one girl” he said this in front of all the parents and I felt awful. Then another parent said to him “(child’s name didn’t get an invite either) He actually did so I’ll speak to her at pick up. This will be DS first party so I wasn’t sure if people invite the whole class. If it were at a play centre or something I probably would have invited the whole class but with it being football I know not all of the children would be interested. I feel embarrassed now!