Another day, another party.
Parties for school age children tend to exclude parents and siblings of the children invited (understandably or it would get a bit crowded) but this time we were all invited and Harry bounded in with only a moment’s hesitation and played happily for the entire time we were there. Much nicer for him. Much nicer for me.
I think for now we will stick to parties where we are all invited and hope that his confidence about being dropped off comes gradually. He’s hardly going to want me accompanying him to parties when he is a teenager so the independence has to come at some point, right?
Besides, the parties were averaging one every week or two and I’m not sure a child needs that many invitations – or that much sugar – and I’m not sure his mother needs that much money disappearing from her purse in the form of presents or spending her Saturdays being a taxi service when we could be out and about having fun.
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Glad he had fun at this one. I couldn’t agree more. Our party invite list (and this is BEFORE any school parties…) has just got to 5 in 4 weeks. So ridiculous. 3 drop-offs and 2 where we’re all invited. We’ve decided to skip one of them already. I’m dreading all 20 kids in her class having birthdays!