winjim
Smash the cistern
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Child's Party - No show
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This has been an amusing thread.
It's not the 'no show' family that comes off like kn*bs in this story - it is the other ones.
I have 3 kids, a dog and a full time job. And a golf and cycling obsession. Quite frankly I can't keep track of all the things I'm supposed to personally do, let alone what my kids are supposed to do.
Sue me.
It's not the 'no show' family that comes off like kn*bs in this story - it is the other ones.
I have 3 kids, a dog and a full time job. And a golf and cycling obsession. Quite frankly I can't keep track of all the things I'm supposed to personally do, let alone what my kids are supposed to do.
Sue me.
Materialistic is right. Nowadays, it has to be organised with outside talent, catering, party bags etc. It has become a runaway train.
Smurfy
Naturist Smurf
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- Smurfette's Kitchen
The full Facebook conversation is here, and makes for pretty cringeworthy reading!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...no-show-fee-Parents-Facebook-row-in-full.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...no-show-fee-Parents-Facebook-row-in-full.html
Mattonsea
Über Member
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- New Forest
I have seen this type of petty discussions between parents so many times , I think they must be bored and unable watch the news to put there lives in to perspective.
Lullabelle
Banana
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- Midlands UK
My colleague has 2 kids and she has said that parties now are over the top, parents are expected to hire out a kids function room, provide food and give out party bags with expensive things in. She and her partner cannot afford to do that as I am sure others can't but the pressure is there.
Mattonsea
Über Member
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- New Forest
Yep it has got stupid nowadays, Build a bear, Harry Potter studio tour or paintball at £60 a child
Lullabelle
Banana
- Location
- Midlands UK
Yep it has got stupid nowadays, Build a bear, Harry Potter studio tour or paintball at £60 a child
Remember the simple days....
My mother was infamous in the school for my brother's 6th Birthday Party!
Half way through one of the kids noted that the budgie was doing a "Monthy Python" and had become deceased, dead, was no more and had passed on
My mother was the pragmatic type and in between the sandwiches and party games arranged a prompt funeral where the kids dug a hole in the garden and buried the budgie
Following day the obligatory class diaries all read ... we went to Peter's birthday party and buried his budgie!
My mother was infamous in the school for my brother's 6th Birthday Party!
Half way through one of the kids noted that the budgie was doing a "Monthy Python" and had become deceased, dead, was no more and had passed on
My mother was the pragmatic type and in between the sandwiches and party games arranged a prompt funeral where the kids dug a hole in the garden and buried the budgie
Following day the obligatory class diaries all read ... we went to Peter's birthday party and buried his budgie!
Hip Priest
Veteran
Yep it has got stupid nowadays, Build a bear, Harry Potter studio tour or paintball at £60 a child
True.
It's the same with stag nights. You used to have a pint in the local with your mates, the night before the wedding. Now it's go-karting in Prague for a week.
I've always done quite big parties for my kids. Things like soft play area, rent a hall and a bouncy castle, laser quest, go karting. And we do bloody good party bags with sweets and plastic tat and a book (cos I iz a well middle class mummy) and Something Noisy in. I particularly enjoy scavenging for bargains to put in them, and especially rummaging through the books in the Works etc to find ones that suit the kids who are coming.
And I'm really glad that I have done it that way. My Aspie teen still socialises with several of the kids that have been coming to his parties since he was two, despite the fact that he doesn't go to school with any of them any more and has never gone to school with one of 'em. I gave him a choice years ago of a big present and no big party, or a big party and no big present. He preferred to share the good fortune, and I'm OK with that. I'd rather spend money on doing stuff than having stuff.
We once no showed because I only found the invite, crumpled at the bottom of the bag, after the party. We've had a couple of no shows - I've generally been able to freecycle their place at the party to an accompanying sibling or similar.
Whilst it is a bit rude to not say if you have to cancel, I think the sender of the invoice sounds like a right pillock.
And I'm really glad that I have done it that way. My Aspie teen still socialises with several of the kids that have been coming to his parties since he was two, despite the fact that he doesn't go to school with any of them any more and has never gone to school with one of 'em. I gave him a choice years ago of a big present and no big party, or a big party and no big present. He preferred to share the good fortune, and I'm OK with that. I'd rather spend money on doing stuff than having stuff.
We once no showed because I only found the invite, crumpled at the bottom of the bag, after the party. We've had a couple of no shows - I've generally been able to freecycle their place at the party to an accompanying sibling or similar.
Whilst it is a bit rude to not say if you have to cancel, I think the sender of the invoice sounds like a right pillock.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
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- Bristol
Even if they had lost the contact details didn't they have contact details for anyone else? Or seen them at school or message in the school bag - since we have seen that that form of communication seems to work!
That said I wouldn't be asking for the money off the parents, nor would I have gone public about it!! I would have just grumbled with a good friend (not on Facebook) or hubby being very careful not to say anything in front of the children who could repeat it!
That said I wouldn't be asking for the money off the parents, nor would I have gone public about it!! I would have just grumbled with a good friend (not on Facebook) or hubby being very careful not to say anything in front of the children who could repeat it!
Crinklie, that sounds just like my wife did for our 3 kids.
We always when the boys were in primary and junior school invited every child in the class, one had 42 sitting down in the house for a birthday tea, great times.
My parents were so useless they likely forgot it was my birthday, I certainly cannot remember any of them.
We always when the boys were in primary and junior school invited every child in the class, one had 42 sitting down in the house for a birthday tea, great times.
My parents were so useless they likely forgot it was my birthday, I certainly cannot remember any of them.
There are 2 "Party" shops within half a mile of my house, it's sad, my daughter loved making streamers and stuff for her parties, kids loved coming round (for her brother's parties too), we always let them go wild, throw food, dance, slide down the bannister and they always had a whale of a time.
Ski party? How embarrassing.
