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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

..to expect a party starting at 4 and ending at 8.30..

19 replies

seeker · 31/03/2007 22:29

....to include some food? Dd(11) went off on the train to our nearest "big town" with birthday girl, her mother and 5 others. They had the fabbest time - hit Claire's, New Look and other inner circles of hell, then went to a bead shop and made jewellery. A brilliant idea for a birthday celebration for this difficult age - and I might steal it next year - but dd arrived home at 8.45 having had nothing to eat. I assumed she would, so I cooked for ds and me and put him to bed and was expecting dd to go to bed as soon as she got home. But she was ravenous so had to eat and ended up going to bed at gone 10.00. Would you have fed them? Or are they now considered old enough not to need food in the early evening?

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colditz · 31/03/2007 22:30

How odd!

fireflyfairy2 · 31/03/2007 22:31

Surely it would have been easy to feed kids that age??

Definitely would have fed them!!

tinkerbellhadpiles · 31/03/2007 22:32

That's really weird, maybe they spent all their money on drugs and getting their ears pierced

clairemow · 31/03/2007 22:35

I'd have fed them. Bit weird. A pizza or something isn't too hard!

Skribble · 31/03/2007 22:35

LOL

MrsGP · 31/03/2007 22:37

Don't people usually add food to a party to kill some time?
If the party was, for example, 1-5pm then maybe not but your dd was with another parent at what would noramlly be a mealtime?

tinkerbellhadpiles · 31/03/2007 22:38

I bet they were a whingy lot for the mum to look after while they shopped if they were hungry as well.

PestoEasterMonster · 31/03/2007 22:41

Definitely need food and drink at that time of day. She must have been really dehydrated too, surely. Not too good IMO.

PrettyCandles · 31/03/2007 22:43

How strange not to have included a stop at a food place.

Though it does sound a fab idea for a birthday 'party'.

brimfull · 31/03/2007 22:43

that's a bit mean ...poor thing

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seeker · 31/03/2007 23:03

Glad it's not just me....my Italian/Irish heritage means I have to stop myself feeding the postman so I needed a reality check! When I steal the idea I think I'll bring something picnic-y for them to eat on the train, then let them have chips in the street.

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SueW · 01/04/2007 00:52

Chips in the street????!!! Noooo!

Elasticwoman · 01/04/2007 15:28

Yes it was very unreasonable not to feed those kids in my book and displays an unhealthy attitude to food, meanness and bad manners. Wasn't there even any birthday cake?

willywonkasEgghunt · 01/04/2007 15:31

I would have needed some food in that time, let alone a group of 11 yr olds.

clairemow · 01/04/2007 19:41

chips in the park? I think chips outside would be quite fun.. and cheap!!

Skribble · 01/04/2007 22:23

I can't help thinking though that if they had eaten in McDonalds, Pizza Hut or the local Chippy most Mums on here would have freaked out.

Perhaps she forgot to lift the picnic basket full of couscous, organic herbal tea and lentil pies .

chocolateface · 01/04/2007 22:30

Was this after school? Really bizare!

Elasticwoman · 02/04/2007 12:25

The cheapest of junk food is better than nothing.

Rachmumoftwo · 02/04/2007 23:08

How strange not too feed them. I know some families eat late, but that is ridiculous. For most families ther would be a meal somewhere between 4 and 7, surely.

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