To only ask 6 out of 25 children to ds's party?

[Wideeyedcarrrot]

He'll be six.
That's ok though isn't it? Six out of 25? Not too many that the others will be sad? He's asking three boys and three girls (which is just how it's fallen). A lot of the others have had just girl parties or just boy parties. Ds has been to a couple of whole class parties too and we haven't invited all the children that have previously invited ds to their parties simply because they had big parties and asked lots of people and ds is only asking children he plays with a lot.
I feel guilty though!

When dd was that age we held and went to a few whole class parties, and also some where fewer were invited (numbers tended to get smaller as she got older and parties changed).

Both kinds were fine. Nobody grumbled about children who only had small parties.

The only time I can imagine anybody ever saying a parent was BU would be if almost the whole class were invited and 1 or 2 children were pointedly missed out.

Six is fine. DS only ever had one really big party - the rest were six at the most. And he has not wanted any sort of celebration with friends since starting at secondary. Strange, given that he has a huge group of friends But cheap!