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<blockquote data-quote="Tiapet" data-source="post: 566272" data-attributes="member: 455"><p>Another one here. All 3 of my difficult children had issues with birthday parties, both the girls were invited to far more then my son. I think my middle one was invited to more then any but she is my social butterfly until people see through her and find her immaturity and outright actions. Then they tend to not like it and have problems and it extends well past the party. Parents ban their kids from her or the kids naturally just walk away from her.</p><p></p><p>When I'd have parties for them we'd be lucky if 2, 3, or maybe even 4 (not usually) kids would ever show up. As they got older the numbers dwindled and this was out of 15-20 invites sent out (sent out way more to always compensate knowing the no show rate). I got so tired of their disappointment of kids not wanting to come to their parties that I just had to draw a line. At 12 no one had anymore birthday parties of any type. My middle one is the one who has the biggest problem with and still does to this day (going to turn 16 in the spring). She still will beg for a party of sorts. I also don't let them go to the invites because I've found that all they did was get made fun of in one form or another at the party (humiliation was a good one) and while they might not have immediately known it, I did and I did not want other kids having fun at their expense. It's just not right! The repercussions after the parties were always huge too, all that would be said. Not nice things and parents would talk as well.</p><p></p><p>We go through enough with our kids in general, if I could eliminate some of it where I can I do try but this is a sad thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tiapet, post: 566272, member: 455"] Another one here. All 3 of my difficult children had issues with birthday parties, both the girls were invited to far more then my son. I think my middle one was invited to more then any but she is my social butterfly until people see through her and find her immaturity and outright actions. Then they tend to not like it and have problems and it extends well past the party. Parents ban their kids from her or the kids naturally just walk away from her. When I'd have parties for them we'd be lucky if 2, 3, or maybe even 4 (not usually) kids would ever show up. As they got older the numbers dwindled and this was out of 15-20 invites sent out (sent out way more to always compensate knowing the no show rate). I got so tired of their disappointment of kids not wanting to come to their parties that I just had to draw a line. At 12 no one had anymore birthday parties of any type. My middle one is the one who has the biggest problem with and still does to this day (going to turn 16 in the spring). She still will beg for a party of sorts. I also don't let them go to the invites because I've found that all they did was get made fun of in one form or another at the party (humiliation was a good one) and while they might not have immediately known it, I did and I did not want other kids having fun at their expense. It's just not right! The repercussions after the parties were always huge too, all that would be said. Not nice things and parents would talk as well. We go through enough with our kids in general, if I could eliminate some of it where I can I do try but this is a sad thing. [/QUOTE]
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