Re: Bday Party

On 30 May 2006 09:51:48 -0700, "cjra" <cjrohr31@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


shinypenny wrote:
HCN wrote:
"Jennifer Massey-Howe" <jennifer.massey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm having a huge party for my son who will be turning 1 on the 4th of
june.
....

Rule of thumb: Never have more child guests than the number of years the
child has been alive. So for a 1 year old... that would be 1 child. For a
10 year old... that would be 10 kids.


I think that's a good rule of thumb. I guess when I read the OP, I
automatically assumed that this was going to be more of an adult party
with family members. I mean... how many "friends" can a 1 year old have
anyway?

Why is that a good rule???? Seems kind of silly to me. So do you tell
any friends and family members with kids to leave them at home? We'd
never have parties in my family if anyone followed such a rule - there
are 20+ nieces and nephews to start, not to mention cousins' kids.

IME, there are family parties and then there are friends-of-the-child
parties.
We always had large family parties with all the relatives when we were
young. When we got into school we'd have parties with classroom and
school friends. In the latter, my mom would have applied the rule of
thumb unless she was up to hosting an entire-class party.

Nan
.

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