Posted on 10/23/2018 12:50:48 PM PDT by pgkdan
-—Yeah, cause going to chuck e cheese and ordering 3 or four pizzas takes a careful logistical effort. Get real.-—
It’s the expense, not the logistical effort, wiseguy. They were supposedly expecting 32 kids maximum. Not three or four close friends.
If Mom is “winging” that, she’s stupid.
Sorry, my bs meter is going off.
Yep. Every class has one.
I blame parents.....what come around, goes around..
I don’t think my daughter had the maturity to reach out to each invitee and ask firmly if they were coming or not. We thought she had the maturity and self-confidence to handle this, and she didn’t. In hindsight, I think she handed out the invitations, but probably did not follow up aggressively with each person she invited, pinning them down as a yes or a no, “Do you need a ride?” etc.
Mr. Roo Roo and I screwed up, this was our fault. We should have known the invitation-handling should have been our job, period. After all, her friends would have had to rely on their parents to give them permission, drive them to the party, etc.
The kids she invited were friends from school, but obviously she did not invite a tight circle of reliable friends.
-—The kids she invited were friends from school, but obviously she did not invite a tight circle of reliable friends.-—
Which can believeably happen since your daughter was older and had a degree of independence.
Think how much more the parents need to closely monitor stuff like that if the kid is six years old?
Some kids just get singled out to get picked on.
Good thing the teacher clued you in!
Agree. Something fishy here.
—There was a kid who got exactly two cards, one from me and one from Sister Dominic Marie. Everyone else got about 30 or 40. From that year forward we were only allowed to bring in cards, cookies, etc. if we brought something for everyone.-—
I remember stuff like that. The rule at my school was definitely Valentine cards for everyone or no one. No exceptions. Teachers handed out the entire class list to everybody.
Nobody was going to let a Charlie Brown situation happen there, lemme tell ya...
I used to take my family camping and hiking on birthdays. Fishing too. Great fun. There might have some griping at times. But all agree 20+ years later that those were the goodle days.
Don’t feel too bad. Many families have similar stories about no one, or only one, child showing up to a birthday party. Our family has a story; other families I’ve known had a story. We all said the same thing to each other: “We tried once, and never again.”
OTOH, I’ve been on the other side of this: Once I missed an invitation that was emailed, and my children missed the party. They would’ve loved to have gone. Another time, I didn’t RSVP because the parents were mean. Lots of other kids showed up to both those birthday parties, though.
A lot of us are older and this sort of thing is unimaginable to us. But it happens all the time now. I could write pages and pages on why but I won’t. Sum it up with “millennial values”. But it’s a good lesson for the kid. Have no expectations and you’ll never be disappointed. No one even called me on my birthday. meh.
Oh my word, what a really sad story!!
I went to public school and the Valentine’s Day rule was ALWAYS: EVERYONE was to bring Valentines for the class party, and each child had to bring a valentine for every single kid in the class, period, no exceptions. It was a good rule.
Beginning when I was a little girl in elementary school, each year there was always a couple of kids in each class who struggled: didn’t have many friends, were socially inept, etc. It’s up to the teachers to ensure that these kids who struggle anyway don’t end up in avoidable humiliating situations.
It’s funny how different schools handle things differently.
At my kids school it was totally fine for a kid to give a card or small gift to a teacher around Christmas break or at the end of the year.
When I was a kid, that was an absolute no-no. No teacher was allowed to accept anything of that nature from a student. No exceptions.
I was curious about Peter Pizza using them.
I would think they would be “Peter P” plates all over the place.
If true the mom screwed up across the board and doubled down by blasting her screw up on the WWW
Okay, let's imagine Teddy and his mom just moved to a new town. He started school a few days before and his mom got the class list. She sent invites by mail to all the classmates a couple of days before the party. People got them the day before and the moms scratched their head. Who? Tomorrow? But you have soccer and we don't have a present. You just met him? He won't mind if we miss this then." Times 32.
Could that happen? Maybe. Is it likely? Doesn't matter, it's just how I stop myself from assuming someone is making stuff up. What's clear from the picture is the kid looks miserable. That's too bad, however it happened.
When my daughter was in high school, one of her classmates had a birthday party at a laser tag arena. His parents invited lots of kids. They ordered a bunch of pizza, etc.
One girl showed up (a friend of my daughter’s). No one else.
That was 15 or so years ago and it still chokes me up.
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