It’s a Primary School party one…

[ItsuAndPumpkin]

My son didn’t want a party to celebrate his birthday, he chose to just have one friend for a sleepover. Great. Two weeks before he thought perhaps a low key party maybe a good idea. 2 friends from school, 2 from outside. All late notice to arrange but have managed to sort it. One of the boys at school brought up that they were looking forward to this weekend and celebrating. Another child who wasn’t invited got wind of it…and another…and another and have all been asking why they aren’t invited. They suggested someone else shouldn’t have been invited and they should have been. It’s just ridiculous. One of them said they had a chat with their mum this morning about why they haven’t been invited and stormed off. I honestly wish there wasn’t a party going ahead. Have i been out of order not inviting the whole class? I could understand if I had done a whole class party and left one child out but there are two children from the year invited. The two/three boys that have asked why they aren’t invited are the ones incidentally who periodically make my child’s life pretty miserable from time to time. Feeling really pissed off about it all.

YANBU.
Your DS just needs to say 'I'm only inviting 2 from school' on repeat.

Carry on with your plans as they are - that’s what your son wants and that’s ok!
He probably won’t be invited to thier parties next year, but who cares if they aren’t nice to him anyway?

I wish people would stop thinking there are certain laws when it comes to primary school kids and parties.

Just because someone else does something does not mean you have to.

Its your sons party, you are his parent, you can decide what happens and who is invited.

Do not get caught up in such trivial drama.

They are just parents of children who happen to go to the same school as your child. They are not your childhood friends who are offended or people you have to have anything to do with.

If your child is being bullied, surely that’s the priority here, not a couple of kids pissed off about a lack of party invitation?

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No you’ve done nothing wrong.

Yet again, everything you describe is a by-product of the massive sense of entitlement that seems to have permeated so many people over the past few years 🙄🙄
I hope your son has a wonderful time with the friends he wants to spend his birthday with!!!

You’ve done absolutely nothing wrong. Tell ds to say he’s only having a small party/blame you, whatever. If he’s young I’d probably make the teacher aware.