How do you balance your child's wants for a birthday party and your own relationships with other parents?
We've been putting together a list for my daughter's birthday party. We went through her class and we were surprised she said no for some people. For one girl it's been her best friend for quite a while, but all of a sudden she doesn't want her at her party. For some others, it's the children of people we are more friendly with as parents. Not like our best friends or anything, but certainly people we have spent more time with personally.
Do you fully follow your kid's lead for who they want there? Or do you make some diplomatic choices, for lack of better wording, to extend invites to kids whose parents you are close with? For context on my daughter in particular, she is definitely on the shy side so I'm a bit wary of going too crazy with invites, because I think she might go into her shell a bit which I don't want for her own birthday. Would love to hear other peoples takes!