A few friends came round after school with their DCs - a long standing reciprocal arrangement every Thursday. There were only 3 boys plus 2 babies there.
As it's actually DS1's birthday today, I had a birthday cake with candles, and had bought and wrapped a gift for pass-the-parcel, so although it wasn't a party, it was a bit of a celebration.
DS2, despite being only 13 months old, showed signs of wanting to be in on the pass-the-parcel. He mainly likes tearing paper. So instead of operating the music as I normally would as parent of the birthday boy, I sat in the circle with DS2 and asked my friend to operate the music.
She didn't realise when we were on the last layer, despite me telling her to look out for a particular pattern of paper, and she stopped the music when I was holding the parcel for DS2. Without thinking, I let him go ahead and open it, so of course he 'won'.
WIBU to allow my child to win the prize I had paid for and wrapped? Especially since he's 1 year old and the prize is apparently not suitable for under 3s, so DS1 will most likely get more use out of it.
If I was operating the music I would have made sure DS1 didn't win, as he'd already had lots of presents, but then DS2 wouldn't have been playing.
There were only 4 children playing, so if we followed the unwritten rule of host's and music operator's children are not allowed to win, there was only 1 child who could have won.
There were no tantrums and no children were upset, and neither of my friends said anything. It occurred to me after they left that maybe I ought to have not let DS2 open the parcel but insist on another round. DS2 is little enough that he wouldn't have been upset.