Mum's heartbreaking message after daughter was excluded from classmate's birthday party

A mum has issued a heartbreaking message to all parents after her daughter returned home from school in floods of tears. She explained how her daughter watched on as a fellow classmate handed out invites to her sixth birthday party - noticing howshe was the only one who wasn't given one.

Taking to Reddit, the anonymous mum said: "This morning on the school run a parent and her daughter were handing out invites to her sixth birthday party. My daughter, who is in the same class, saw this and excitedly said, 'Whose party is it?' and I realised she didn’t get an invite." She shared how they attended the same girl's fifth birthday party last year - and her daughter even invited her to her birthday party too.

While acknowledging it may just be a 'numbers issue', she added: "I know she can’t be invited every time, and kid’s eventually get their friendship groups and costs etc etc, but I can’t help but feel a little sad for my daughter.

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"As a parent I could never stand outside the class and hand only some kids an invite in front of children that weren’t invited."

Commenting on her post, one user said: "You’re right that parent didn’t really think that through giving out invites like that. Poor kid."

Another user added: "In my experience up to fifth birthday everyone mucks in, sixth birthdays things start to fracture and by seventh it's completely friendship grouped.

"It does suck. A sixth birthday early in the year means some very disappointed five-year-olds, and they aren't old enough yet to process it.

"At least with my children when it happened the parents involved had the good grace to handle it in private WhatsApp groups, not at the school gates."

A third user said: "Some schools have a policy. If you give out invites at school everyone gets one. If you are selective then give them out elsewhere."

One more user added: "That should have been done via WhatsApp and I am sorry that you and your daughter were disheartened like that from Monday morning!"

A final user said: "It sucks doesn’t it, my daughter didn’t get invited to her best friend's birthday last year, and I know it’s because she’s autistic and the mum is a bit snooty.

"Unfortunately you just have to take a deep breath and get on with it, but it hurts."