Birthday party's

[Crappygilmore]

Feckers. I hate them . Ds is 9 next month. He has sn and is invited to maybe 1 party a year. And now its our turn. Invite 5/7 children to an expensive day's amusement and never for the experience to be reciprocated. I hate it. I have an MOT to get through, easter and all this bullshit to deal with. I wish this year were over and i could just give ds everything he wants. Fecking birthdays

I found parties seem to quieter down when they get to nine, are you sure there are that many going on that he isn't invited to? If there are still some, they are usually much smaller numbers by that age. We stopped doing parties for mine by about nine, we'd give him the option of doing something else with family on his birthday and he started preferring that.

My son will be 8 in May and barely any of the kids his age have parties from his school. I've told him this year he can invite a friend for a day out to a theme park. He's more than happy with that and I think it makes sense, he can have a special day with someone he is actually friends with rather than like you say paying to amuse the masses. Ideas I put to him were bowling, cinema, laser tag, trampolining, or theme park. Could you not suggest something along these lines?

Parties.

Yes I feel your pain. It's similar here. Party invites get fewer and fewer. DD7 wants a big party this year and I don't want to fork out on children who never reciprocate. Wish I could be done with them altogether!