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Thejugglestruggle · 2025-01-11T19:34:01+00:00

My child is in year 2. Reception and year 1 were awash with parties, but this year has tailed off significantly in terms of invites. Is this other people's experience with their children? I'm also trying to work out how many to invite to my child's party later on in the summer!

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mindutopia · 12/01/2025 11:42

It’s been a lot less this year and mostly Year 1 kids (it’s a combined Y1/Y2 class). The Y1 intake was huge in reception last year. I think there’s 23 of them. 🙈 Whereas we only have 11 Y2s. I think people are just bloody tired of big parties and the huge class size means no one wants to do a whole class party.

We do parties every year as do most people (you just may not know if your child is discreetly not invited). I can’t really remember when it switched from whole class parties with my eldest, but COVID would have played a role there. My guess is that parties are just getting smaller. As long as you cultivate friendships, offer play dates, invite good friends to his party, etc, then it will generally be reciprocated.

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Thejugglestruggle · 12/01/2025 13:09

mindutopia · 12/01/2025 11:42

It’s been a lot less this year and mostly Year 1 kids (it’s a combined Y1/Y2 class). The Y1 intake was huge in reception last year. I think there’s 23 of them. 🙈 Whereas we only have 11 Y2s. I think people are just bloody tired of big parties and the huge class size means no one wants to do a whole class party.

We do parties every year as do most people (you just may not know if your child is discreetly not invited). I can’t really remember when it switched from whole class parties with my eldest, but COVID would have played a role there. My guess is that parties are just getting smaller. As long as you cultivate friendships, offer play dates, invite good friends to his party, etc, then it will generally be reciprocated.

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Fab advice, thank you.
I think my son possibly falls in the middle somewhere - asked to some playdates and parties but not to everything. And that's OK!
He has 3 lovely best friends who are such nice boys, and I'm very grateful for that.

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TeddyBeans · 14/01/2025 21:07

Icanloveme · 11/01/2025 20:55

How does throwing a party make someone grabby for presents ?

Most of the guests hardly spend a tenner on the gift , make snarky comments about why to throw a party, also often "forget" to bring a present but don't mind both adults of the child invited entering the venue for a child where adults are also paid for by the hosts when the party costs about £25 p child and £10 for every adult.

I think the people who don't want to throw parties are welcome not to but they should either stop attending the parties they are invited to or shut their mouths before being snarky.

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I never said I thought that, I said it was what worried me. I don't have a problem with people throwing parties every year for their kid and I will buy a present every time but it doesn't stop me from worrying about the perception of me if I were to do it