Birthday party invites from kids at school

Do you try to go to all of them? Any of them? Do they annoy you to get them? If you don't go, do you take a gift for the kid to school?

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We make the parties we can make and don't to the parties we can't. Most of the kids at school have class parties along with the other party. We can't bring gifts because I don't have the extra $10-15 each time a party rolls around, it adds up pretty quickly, even more so because he's the youngest in his class.

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We go to as many as we can, but nobody can make them all and people understand that. We didn't take gifts for the kids whose parties we didn't go to, but some people did. I think it's much better to invite the whole class rather than have kids get their feeling hurt because they were left out. They don't annoy me.

I think the rules at our school is that you have to invite the entire class. I'm not positive though. I know it was that way at her old school (3 & 4 yr. old Pre-K).

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I like it when my kids get invited to parties, so I let them go to them if possible. I keep the gifts inexpensive, like $10 or less. If we happen to not be able to go we don't bring a gift.

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The rule on invites at our school is that invites need to be mailed unless everyone in the class is invited (or if you want to have just the boys or just the girls).

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"Live like no one else so that later you can live like no one else." ~Dave Ramsey

LOL I remember when Dan was in 5th grade, and I told he he could invite the boys in his class.. somehow he translated that to mean all the boys in 5th grade. We had about 25 show up (I expected 10-15) It was a zoo. After that, I offered $100 instead of a party for the next year, and he took up the offer.

We try to make the parties if we can, but keep the price of the gift down - 15 parties can add up, although not all kids in her class have one. I typically don't have birthday parties with kids for my children. When Kaitlyn turned 5 we had a bog party with all her friends and the gifts that she received she donated to Toys for Tots (parents knew ahead of time so they didn't feel obligated to bring something). I plan on doing the same for my boys when they turn 5 as well.

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