By mvjunkie - 26/01/2017 16:41

Today, I hosted my 6-year-old daughter's birthday party. After inviting 15 kids from her class, making a huge 2-flavor character cake, and cutting pool noodles for light sabers, only 1 kid showed up. FML
I agree, your life sucks 8 039
You deserved it 870

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hey guys OP again so like I said in my first comment I really wasn't social during that time. when my husband deploys I don't stay in the town we are stationed, there's no point in me staying alone with no one and two kids if I can move closer to family and at the very least have someone around for emergencies. so that's probably a big reason no one came. but bright side of life she still had fun, she had a second party with family and on her actual birthday her and I went out caught a movie and other stuff so she's not scared by any means. Either way i really appreciate all of the support and kind words, yall rock!

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Be a parent then, if she's lonely you go out there and party with her yourself or better yet invite some family, have a fake Star Wars fight with her and if you can't finish that cake save it and let her bring a little of it to school for a lunch treat, because if you think you feel shitty for preparing that imagine how she feels that practically no one showed up. Perhaps a little time together celebrating could cheer both of you up

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I'm either reading a bunch of reposts or I had a dream about me reading FML posts and it came true, because I've read this and others from today.

it's def a repost....unless you've been stealing my dreams

theblondeone 16

It was posted on the 21st. This has been happening a lot lately for some reason

sparkplug420 13

I've been having the same kind of experience. It feels like I read them already in another life.

Your daughter needs the children's version of "How to Win Friends and Influence People." You need to Google "RSVP"

And you need to stop being a Dick, Richard.

So the big question is: Is she turning 6 or 6 turning 7?

EXACT same thing happened to my son on his 7th birthday. Invited 32 kids, 13 RSVP'd, only one showed up. I paid $700 for that party and had spoken to the kids parents. To this day I will not forgive those rotten kids or their parents. It's cruel.

notusually 8

700 dollars is way too much for a birthday party, sounds like you were trying to show off and were more upset than your kid.

Sorry if I sound stupid, but what is RSVP?

cootiequeen4444 11

6 is a little young for kids to be such judgmental assholes barring if maybe y9ur daughter is extremely bad at being social to the point it is something to be addressed. as in does she have any mental illneses or is sue a "biter" or has accidents a lot. Not saying that necessarily makes it your daughter's fault (though kinda yes if it is due to sonething like biting the other kids) but it would extrene cases would probably make even 6 year olds intolerant and if is due to a illness or something i think a tolerance lesson would be kid within your daughter's classroom setting. there are other explanations though. are you or your spouse (if you have one) on okay terms with the rest of the children's parents? Or is there maybe a rumor going around? some young parents are still in high school judgmental snot mode and susceptible to believing rumors or evening judging other children as not worthy of their child. In all honesty, I was pretty nerdy and I still was invited to a lot of parties and invited a lot of people to parties and never got such a bad turn out. even the year when I had no school friends (was basically in the process of going from in crowd to the outcasts lol. my only regret is not becoming one of the outcasts sooner. though social pressure in the popular groups when you aren't a top dog is too much for a young psyche). Also, until I was like 12, I wasn't allowed to refused a party invite unless I truly was sick. my parents considered it rude. And I've never rejected a party invite even after 12 because the thought of it being rude was instilled in me. for good reason. unless the host called me something derogatory or beat me up, why not go? because of some made up ( and messed up) superiority complex instilled the clique "system" at school is a really lame reason and people that do that shit should be ashamed of themselves. seriously. it's free food. and "dorkiness" isn't some contagious disease believe it or not. So yeah, the fact this was for a 6 year

I hope she was still able to have a happy birthday even without guests. I also hope she took it okay.

I'm sorry to hear about that. It happened to me every year growing up. After a while, you just stop preparing anything for a party at all.

4everBroken 13

More of an FML for your kid, not you. Grow up and maybe teach your kid how to make friends!

Kids can be cruel. Hope your daughter's day still went great :(