Crazy early for kids party?!

[sofedupandtiredofthis]

9.30am on a Sunday morning.

Thoughts on whether this is a reasonable time or too early for a kids party?

Great idea, most 2-3 year olds will be up and raring to go by then and it leaves the rest of the day free. If it's inconvenient for you then politely decline the invite with good notice.

Seems fine to me. Boot sales are always earlier than that.

7am, maybe 7.30-8am on a weekend if we were lucky.

Under the week it was off to nursery at 7.30am, she normally had breakfast there, just a glass of milk at home.

@Ascubudr so I have to wake up my daughter at 8 to give her a small bit of toast /cereal

Which doesn't work

Kids don't want lunch at 11

It's not pitch black at 9am where I live 🤷🏻 saw a beautiful pinkish hue in the sky this morning. Absolutely stunning sky with frost everywhere.

Haha, mine have all been having lunch between 11/11.30am for years as when they are small they wake between 5/6 am.

Most parties DD attened had tons of leftover food.

DD didn't want lunch at 11 or tea at 3.30 so she only nibbled.

I started doing parties from 2/2.30-4/4.30pm with just cake and snacks after one where I threw away over half of the food I prepared. So great, as parents preferred to have dinner at weekedns together instead of a half-fed child who then is hungry at 6pm and they didn't plan for it.

When they are older, parties with pizza at 6pm works again.

Absolutely pitch black that is!!!😱👀🙄💩🤣

Definitely relaxing and small children don't go hand in hand in a conversation 🤔🤣

So skip it for the 11am party ?

Mine had lunch at half 11 at the childminder before nap time. Then lunch at 11 through primary school (lunch and break were reversed because we were in a hot country).

TBH, I prefer obligations first thing in the morning. When they are later in the day, it's all I can think about.
"We've got that party at 2, so we'll need to leave here at 1:30, so we need to have lunch at 12 30..." etc etc

Presumably to avoid having to include breakfast or lunch?

Kids diets are fine, thanks for the concern.

They are 4. So no school or clubs yet.

Our older DC coped fine with activities we chose for them that were for, say, an hour on Saturday morning.

9.30 on a Sunday, remains an unsociable and undesirable time to send 4 yr olds running around a soft play for 2 hours. Looks like a complete afterthought and that's "what was left."

Actually seems a good idea to me, and if not good for you, polite decline in reasonable time.

Great! Get it out of the way and enjoy the rest of the day. Surely parents of young children are up early anyway.

Healthy 4 year olds should absolutely be able to cope with an activity in the morning without becoming exhausted how on earth will they deal with school ?

@Vettrianofan at those ages my brother & I had to be 'encouraged' out of bed (especially in winter!) to go to the childminders before school so our parents had a chance of getting to work on time.

but come the weekends were up earlier than school mornings to play.

I still remember my Dad asking WHYYYYYYY couldn't we get up in the week instead?!?!

they played a blinder one Christmas & got us both mini transistors so we could listen to the Sunday Morning Childrens Stories in bed.

it was years before I realised that may not have been entirely for our benefit!! 😂😂😂😂

Perfect for younger ages who are mostly up by 6:30-7 ish - terrible for older kids like mine who were barely up before 11 this morning!

Well, we went and we had a lovely time! Lunch was included at 11am, which was nice - DC really enjoyed herself and she ate well too. She crashed out in the car on way home and has been snoring on the sofa ever since giving me a peaceful hour to eat my lunch and relax too - win win! 🥳

Not so bad after all 👍🏻

Kids don't want lunch at 11

Mine has always had lunch in the 11-12 window, since she was weaned. This it pretty normal for us.

Really pleased you went and had a nice time.

Far too early for a toddler party - who wants to be making polite small talk with other parents at that time on a Sunday?

Perfect time for a drop-and-leave-them 6/7+ party as you can then go home for a few hours rest or go out for breakfast without them!

I imagine the same as our older DC coped. Fine.

Are you suggesting two hours at primary school in the morning is akin to rushing round a soft play area with the excitement of a party?

Look I don't want to get into this, but I do find your attitude very odd. Surely small children are at their best 1st thing ? That's why they do literacy and maths in the morning. I get that this timing may no suit parents and/ or older children, but idea that physical exercise between 9-11 will over tire 4 year olds is really strange and feankly quite worrying