Thanks for the invite, little Johnny would love to come!

[Arpegios]

It's become a little game I have with myself every time I'm added to a kids party WhatsApp group - counting the number of mums who use this phrase - it seems to be the stock response! Once I saw 8/9 replies in a row that were this exact text with only the child's name swapped out!
First I refused to conform and always wrote something more imaginative... now I like to join in and see how many repeats we can get!

😂😂 Thanks for the replies, these have made my day. Just to confirm people arn't putting "little" in front of their child's name. I thought Little Johnny was universally understood to be a placeholder name, ie "insert random child's name here".

And as I said, I enjoy joining in with it now!

Cassandra was overjoyed to reciece an invitation to the upcoming celebration of the anniversary of Louis birth, and will of course be delighted to join him for the celebratory assembly. She would to present him with a tasteful token to mark this joyous occasion so wishes to enquire into his current tastes so an appropriate purchase can be made.

I rsvp via the medium of interpretive dance (in the school playground).

Because it's straight to the point, why would you want a load of waffle ?

Yep- he’s my son- all 6’2 of him. He answers his own party invitations these days.

He did used to be a Little Johnny though.

Standard polite response..............😶

I tend to use the noun 'invitation', rather than the verb 'invite'.

Not here. There is only whatsapp, no invitations at all.

I think we are showing our age!
I probably still have some unused paper invitations in a drawer.
Maybe I should send them to a museum for the "parties of yore" exhibition!

If I was being honest when my DD was little, that would have been pretty much what she said - FOMO was real, even then!

WhatsApp wasn't a thing (or maybe it was a thing that we hadn't adopted yet) when my kids were that age. So I lovingly created invitations which often wouldn't get a reply, yet little Johnie and often his 12 uninvited siblings would turn up on the day.
Somehow WhatsApp seems more civilised, even with the cookie cutter responses.
I'm loving the creative replies though.

At least they are replying. Every time my DC have a party I have to chase the parents up to find out if they are coming or not! It's so rude 😠 (I'm currently in this position again with invites having went out 6 days ago and only one reply so far!! So maybe I'm a little touchy about the subject at the moment)

Little Johnny just wants a party bag so will suffer your child for that. Unfortunately, I'll have to interrupt my own weekend to take him to it so I'm already more than a bit pissed off. See you then!

Well, no, because six year olds tend not to use WhatsApp, which is more efficient, environmentally friendly and far more likely to get RSVPs on time than paper invitations.

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I very much doubt people are choosing to use whatsapp cos of the environmental impact.
People used to RSVP to paper invitations all the time, we are just used to the convenience of whatsapp now.

I think some of us older parents are feeling a bit nostalgic about that part of the Birthday plans - helping your child write the invitations and them being really excited about taking them to school. How do young children thank their guests for gifts received? Surely that's on paper.

It doesn’t matter why people are doing it, the fact is that it saves paper as well as endless faff with lost invitations, parents discovering them weeks later at the bottom of school bags, public distribution meaning some kids are disappointed, and chasing up RSVPs.

My darling Little Johnny would absolutely love to attend Christabel's amazing birthday party. I hope they have a spiffing jaunt to the soft play.

"Master Johnny Smith accepts with pleasure your kind invitation for Saturday 29th November".