Do you drop your dc of at parties or stay??

[Llamadramass]

DD has her first party today which she is so excited for! It’s at her friends house I don’t know the parents as I work full time so never get to meet anyone.

I don’t know the procedure for kids parties do parents stay? Or am I expected to drop her off?

Depends on age.

When they were very little reception age I'd stay. To keep an eye on them but also a chance to get to know other parents.

Once they were older I'd drop them off and run.

Totally depends how old they are! Mine is 5 (in reception at school) and I stay.

From primary 1 drop off and leave.

She is 4 going into reception in September.

depends on age. Reception I stayed and some y1 parties but most from that point were drop off. I’d usually check with the organising mum if it wasn’t clear or offer to help out

Mine is the same age, parents have stayed at all the parties DS has been to this year (which is only about 4). Most of the hosts seem to cater for parents to stay as well - a bottle of Prosecco often does the rounds.

Staying is pretty standard here until.around year 3 or 4. It used to be more like year 2 but people are more cautious since covid as children may still have relatively limited experiences of these events. I have definitely stayed over the years until I know my children are used to how parties work.

Stay until about year 2/3, possibly older if in soft play hell.
Although if I kew the parents very well and it was in their home I'd be more relaxed.

Most reception parties the parents stay for, I think year 1 onwards drops are acceptable/commonplace.

For me, prior to starting school people stayed, once in school you dropped.

From reading MN, there seem to be more people who think parents should stay during the child's Reception year.

At 4 you stay.
At 7 you generally leave.

At 5 or 6 it depends on the party size and location, whether you know the parents, whether they have adequate supervision in place.

Some invitations will make it clear - eg Parents please stay, or Collect at 4pm.

I would agree with this.

Also by 7, hopefully you've 1 or 2 parents to buddy up with, so if it is a 'stay' (or a venue 30 mins away) you take it in turns to take one for the team.

But reception age - stay. Make those party buddies 😉

Use to drop from the age of 5. Maybe it's different nowadays.