I know you can't invite everyone to your child's birthday, but I don't think it's a good thing to post photos of the party on Facebook for a lot of reasons. One reason being-how do you know the other kids parents' are OK with their child's picture being on social media? Most are OK with that, but others are very sensitive about that. Another reason is you can hurt others who were not invited to the party. I know everyone is happy it's our kid's birthday and wants to share photos, but I try to post a picture of my girls or my family of four and something less obvious like "celebrating Jenna's birthday today!". I guess everyone isn't as caring our thoughtful as I am.
This is not the first time this has happened to us and I'm sure it won't be the last. Part of me wants to email this mother with some not so nice words. I "liked" the pictures just so she knew I saw them. The naive part of thought the mom would email me back saying sorry my daughter was not invited.
Has anyone had this happen? What do you usually do? Do you say something or let it go? A mother in my older daughter's class texted me and then called me upset that her daughter was the only girl on the class not invited to the party. I really had no idea what to say. Invitations were sent via email, so maybe there was an email mix up?
Our parents didn't have to deal with this-unless they heard of a party we weren't invited to through the grapevine, they wouldn't know. The bottom line is nobody wants to see their child get hurt. As parents, we should think of all the repercussions of what we post on social media, as it sometimes affects our children.
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