A father of a young boy recently asked Reddit if he should invite his spoiled nephew to his son’s birthday party.
Here’s what he had to say.
The man’s son will soon be turning 11, so the dad is planning a big birthday party for the whole family. There’s just one problem. He wants to invite the entire family but not his eldest nephew.
His eldest nephew is his brother’s son, but unfortunately, the boy is “a real piece of work,” he says.
The nephew is rude to everyone and cannot stand the rest of the family. “There is definitely some parental alienation going on as his mother had no interest in the family even when she was dating my brother,” the man said.
In fact, when she was pregnant with the nephew, she did everything she could to keep him away from the family.
So now, the nephew seems to have adopted his mother’s attitude and is rude to his cousins, siblings, and stepmom.
As the mother didn’t really socialize with the family, her son was rarely seen at family events either.
On the few occasions he did turn up, he misbehaved, got annoyed with his dad, demanded to go home, and refused to talk to anyone. Basically, the kid is a brat.
For example, for his 11th birthday, his parents threw him a big birthday party and the back garden was completely decked out with a giant cake, balloons, streamers, games, and a large BBQ.
However, instead of being grateful and happy that his dad went to all that trouble, the nephew threw a tantrum and wouldn’t talk to anyone. He sat in the corner for hours and refused to speak to anyone.
So this dad feels really bad for his brother, whom he loves dearly, especially knowing how excited he was when his brother found out he was going to be a dad. They both wanted to be good fathers as their own dad wasn’t really involved in their lives.
But now his own son’s birthday is coming up, and he doesn’t see the point of inviting a kid who hates being with the family and probably won’t even want to come.
And if the nephew does turn up, what happens if he has a tantrum and spoils the party for everyone else?
So the man asked the Reddit community for advice on whether he should invite the kid.
One user said, “there is an easy way to deal with this. Plan the gathering on your nephew’s mother’s weekend, and most of the problems will be solved.”
Another said, “If the nephew wouldn’t show up anyway, you might as well extend the invite. It keeps the peace with your brother, and if your nephew ever realizes that this side of the fam is decent, you can always say that he was included, and he never took you up on it.”
What do you think? Should the man invite the nephew for his brother’s sake?
Source: Reddit
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