"No siblings this time sadly"... on a kids party invite is that ever ok!?

[Magicshroom]

Is this ever ok NOT to invite siblings to kids party??

I think not ok!!!?

This has to be a reverse!

This.

It sounds like the voice of experience.

So invitation says 'Felix' and people RSVP 'Felix and Jane will be attending

Or just bring all your kids and siblings and just turn up?

What? Of course it's fine to not invite siblings.

See all of the CF threads where posters are pissed off that people try to bring along uninvited siblings.

Why do you think siblings should be invited? What a weird perspective

I have NEVER had siblings turn up uninvited. Weird behaviour. Doesn't happen here thankfully.

I could have written this ! Also children were just dropped off and collected at end of party . It was never an issue.

Of course it's OK. It's the default. Why would you assume you can bring uninvited people to a party?

Have you got that the wrong way round? It's always OK not to invite siblings. Anything else would be ridiculous

They have probably only written it on yours op as they know you!

My DD went to two parties at the end of August and the only siblings present were those of the birthday child.

One friend had made it clear on previous occasions by putting names on party bags and only having food for children invited that she wasn't catering for and entertaining uninvited siblings.

The other set of parents were just clearly lucky.

Harsh.

😂

Of course it's fine. Why would the birthday child want random siblings that they don't know at their party? Bizarre!

It’s very bad manners to try and foist uninvited siblings onto the host. As an adult you’d never show up to a party you weren’t invited to, so why would you let your children do it.

I would imagine so!

I have three kids, I never ever assumed that an invitation for one was an invitation for the other two as well. Imagine if everyone did that!

Siblings are never invited.

Absolutely fine to message if you have childcare issues and ask to bring siblings along (or just pay them in if it's somewhere like soft play), and most parents will say yes, but you don't just show up with uninvited siblings.

Completely normal!!!

I also had the experience of someone telling me she needed to bring 3 children with her, it was a struggle but I managed to pay for the extra places. She then didn’t show up.
I’ve in the past taken both my kids but always paid for the one who wasn’t invited and prepared them for no party bags.

From that wording, I'd love to know what happened "last time"!

No way would I invite siblings to a party.

Yes of course!

Of course it is fine! It is only good manners to bring along the child named on the invite. Clearly the host has hosted too many parties where numbers are doubled, catering goes out the window, adult child ratios are scuppered by a load of non age appropriate guests brought along by cheeky fuckers.

Yes why would you bring siblings if one child is invited ?

Of course it’s ok

we had some right piss takers with siblings at some of my kids’ parties

We would have been in big trouble if people had decided to bring siblings, we have four kids and with the eldest three there were siblings that intersected! I think it sounds diplomatic!