Saturday, March 01, 2008

Birthday Party Etiquette 101

1. If you are throwing your child a party, don't expect the parents to drive 20 minutes each way to drop their child off in a skeevy part of town at say, Skateland, then make the parent "hang around" the skeevy part of town for 2 1/2 hours to pick their child up. Either have the party at your house, or drive the kids yourself.

2. If you are throwing your child a party, be sure to order enough pizza for everyone to at least have one slice.

4. If you are throwing your child a party and the invitation says it is from 10am until 12:30pm, a parent should expect that the party is ending at 12:30pm. Not earlier.

3. If you are throwing your child a party at a hypothetical place possibly mentioned above, it is important to stay until all of the parents have arrived to pick their child up. It's not proper etiquette to leave a seven year old by herself at a place like Skateland located in a skeevy part of town. It is irresponsible and unacceptable.

4. Don't allow your child to go to any more parties that don't take place at the host's home.

3 comments:

Lorena said...

This is exactly why we didn't attend that SAID party. We went to one of hers a few years ago that was pretty much the same thing, and I vowed I would never do it again.

Good thing I had the excuse of too much to do to get ready for her upcoming baptism. She didn't complain.

Have you met the Mom? I don't think I would attend a party at their home, either.

Is this way too mean?

Sorry you had a bad experience...I should have warned you.

Mom not Mum (Sandy) said...

Oh WOW that is just insane!! Who leaves a child at the skating rink before the parents show up? That is just crazy.

Anonymous said...

I still can't believe they did that. that is just flippin' nuts.