RSVP for a child's party. How long does it take you?

[sloane]

i text but i'm not a big one for talking on the phone (despite spending hours at a time on the phone as a teenager!), and i figure once people have children it's sometimes hard to find a convenient time so i just end up texting!

[Rouge]

This is why I love our school. We have such a close nit community that I'd just walk straight up to the parent and ask "Did you get xyz's invitation" or better yet call them via the school phone list.

In saying that...

I am the parent you all hate. When I get birthday invites they get lost, or jammed on the fridge with everything else and because I have this huge phone phobia and I'm always worried about calling at the wrong time if it's someone I don't know I tend to forget because when I go to call it's not a good time (ie. 8:30pm at night). I now generally RSVP via note form to school to the birthday child. As this way I don't freak out over interrupting.

[Cranky Kitten]

I'm a texter. Or email. Makes it easier because you can check names off later, where if someone tells me verbally I could easily forget.

[Phteven]

For DS2 I could just talk to the parents and we have a list too so I could email or ring them but for DS1's class we don't have a list and I don't seem to know the parents as well. Maybe it's something to do with starting late in the year when they had all introduced themselves etc *shrug*

[Rouge]

Don't worry, I'm learning that you tend to click with one child's year but not necessarily all iykwim? My gf's are telling me the same. You are NOT a social retard btw.

[Astrid]

Have received text rsvp's as well. Thought it was odd at first, but ok with it now, no different to leaving a message on the answering machine.

I have a big fear of pronouncing the child's name wrong, especially with the kids from childcare, as I often have not "heard" their name, so that can make me reluctant to call straight away. Bit easier with primary school as I can ask DD1 how to say their name.

[Livinthedream]

I think text RSVP is ok.