To be honest, it’s the second year now and I was upset for him last year but this year I’m just baffled more than anything.
Basically, it’s 5 of them best mates at school (age 8). Same football team, always hanging out together etc. The boy who had his birthday is absolutely lovely. Maybe short fused but they all know how to handle him. My son is a very well liked child at school, I know he hasn’t got a bad bone in his body.
We’ve been inviting the boy (let’s name him R) to my son’s birthdays always. I’m friendly with his mom. She always says hi, very smiley etc.
last year almost the whole class (including all of the football team) were invited apart from my son. My son knew where the party was and asked his dad to take him to the venue without telling him why. They obviously run into R’s party and it was very awkward.
I discarded it as they probably didn’t remember us. We still invited R to our parties and were always nice to him.
This year the same thing again. The whole class and football team are invited apart from my son. Tempted to cut off all future parties but is it petty? The boys are such good mates. I really don’t understand why they single us out.