No way! We did that one year for Grace's bday. Too many people, too much noise and bad pizza too! Made my momma bear radar and my security concerns both just go crazy!!! I'm a bit OCD about where each of my "people" is, secure position for defense in an emergency, all that sort of thing, just can't do that sort of thing! Bruce and Dave are the same way, the mental strain is horrible!
When the boys were 2 and 4 we lived in Colorado Springs. 2 boys in that age bracket were kidnapped from yards within a 7 block radius of us. When Bruce got out of the military we moved to the country. We never went to town but what the boys had to be in contact with the grocery cart or holding my or Bruce's hand. They were trained in stranger danger long before it became a thing.
It started for me in 2nd grade. Raised in Colorado Springs and the police came to the schools to tell us not to take candy from strangers, only they used a movie of 2 little girls getting kidnapped and later found in a campground type ba
throom. I can still remember that movie like I saw it only yesterday. I might also add I cannot use a campground bathroom, it brings on a huge panic attack! Silly I know but it never left me and it made me a fiend about being aware of surroundings and self defense.