Awful parent alert

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DS(4) is in Reception and quite shy. He hasn’t made a core group of friends yet, although seems happy enough playing alongside other children. He was invited to another child’s birthday party. He was really excited when I told him about it a couple of days ago. It’s today. However, we’re at soft play because I thought it was tomorrow. I only realised when another mum messaged a few minutes ago asking if everything was alright. There’s no way of getting there in time. I’ve messaged the birthday child’s mum and apologised but I just feel so awful for DS (and that I’ve ‘wasted’ a party space). No real point to this thread other than just to vent about myself.

Oh no. Poor son and poor you!

Hopefully the party mum will understand. Maybe offer to pay the price of the space and perhaps ask whether you could take party child again to soft play with your son or to the cinema or something else and have a special afternoon for them both?

Thank you for replying. It’s not necessarily the birthday child that DS was looking forward to seeing, more just seeing the children in his class ifswiym, but offering to pay for the space is a good idea.