Wibu to invite the older ds and not the little one?

[pyjamaramadrama]

Ds is having 6th birthday party soon, only 10 kids to keep cost down. Soft play.

My friends ds is only a month apart in age and my ds and her ds have always been friends.

Friend has since has another ds who's almost 2.

I was going to invite her older ds only. but can I really do that? School friends the assumption is no siblings or you pay them in.

But is it different as she's my friend too?

[giveadogabonio]

It's fine!

The fact is, that some people go through life looking for reasons to take offence at things that really don't matter at all, in the grand scheme of life.

That's why you get all the hoity toity threads about weddings and the like. Some people enjoy being offended. I say let them enjoy it if that's their choice.

Me, I just couldn't give a flying crap who gets invited to what.

[FabBakerGirl]

if it was a family party then yes, maybe would have been mean to not invite the baby but she sounds an entitled madam.

My dd was invited to a party of my husband's cousin's child. Only she, not her brothers, and it was not a problem at all. Some people are really entitled and demanding.

[wingsandstrings]

I was quite frank about NOT inviting siblings to my DS's last party. I said to everyone "I would have loved to have been able to invite siblings but I'm afraid because we have x entertainment we have had to put a strict limit on numbers. I hope that isn't too inconvenient for you. Thanks for understanding". Everyone seemed absolutely fine with it . . . . at least to my face! No one brought siblings. I had been a bit scarred the year before when we invited 25 to a party (a traditional church hall type party where DH and I did the games) and when everyone sat down for tea I found we had 33 kids due to uninvited siblings. All the parents were like "oh don't worry about setting a place for x uninvited sibling" but it was tea time and those kids were hungry and some were whining and I felt bad so we squeezed everyone up and set extra places. I was peeved, as some food ran out and everyone was really squished.

[MomOfTwoGirls2]

We live about hour drive from most cousins. We do class only parties. Only exception is that dd who is not the birthday girl gets to invite one friend. No cousins or friends of family. Works a treat for us. We don't get invited to cousins birthday parties either...