Have any of you had experiences with children who act awful at parties?
We've had a few over the years but yesterday really capped it all. We had a Halloween birthday party for my child and at his school, you have to pass out invitations to everyone in the class if you're going to give them out at school. There was this one kid whom we knew was hell because Ballerina had accompanied our son to a party at his house last summer. We thought we were ready for him...

This kid did not want to play games, make caramel apples, watch the Halloween cartoon, or eat cake and ice cream. (He screamed all this out nonstop.) What he wanted to do was get into my son's room and trash it and his toys. And to top it off, his mother was there and watched fondly as he did all this..all we ever heard from her was one, "Honey, where are your social skills?" (He HAS some?)BTW, this kid is 8, not 3.
How did you handle this if it happened to you?