Our son and daughter are both older, and we never threw big expensive birthday parties for them. I think our daughter should just choose 10 friends maximum, and we can have them run around our backyard, or pick fewer friends and we can have them go to laser tag (the local laser tag place has birthday parties for eight kids for about half of what the bouncy castle place would cost). My wife really wants to let her do it, but I’m not sure. It’s not that we can’t afford it, but I’d really rather our money go to something else. This place is very expensive to rent out, and there’s a flat rate, so even if some kids can’t make it, we’d be paying the full price. Her birthday is in about two months, but she’s been talking nonstop about having her party at an indoor bouncy house facility. How can we guide her out of this phase in a way that isn’t so annoying for her siblings? My husband thinks the solution is to have the twins have some dedicated time with their sister, and then the rest of the time would be for them to do what they want, whether it’s with their sister or not, but this seems like a bad idea for me-I’m not sure how well a toddler would understand this. At the same time, trying to get the twins to set boundaries with her has had mixed results-her brother in particular goes a bit overboard, yelling “shut up and go away!” or that sort of thing, something we’re also working on. We’re getting her to work on knocking so that she doesn’t barge into their bedroom, but anytime one of them is doing something without her, or god forbid the two of them are doing something together, she needs to be included. Both of the older kids get very annoyed by her. She wants to be included in everything that they do. Our younger daughter is going through a phase of wanting to do everything like her big siblings. My husband and I have 6-year-old boy-girl twins and a 3-year-old daughter.
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