Kids with parents or at their own table
Pick from the households in front of you. This page does not set an age, supervision, or safety rule. It shows two explicit choices and the party list each choice requires.
Two shapes, one decision
Children can stay with their parents or take a table of their own, and the chair count is the only part of that a page can settle. What decides the rest is the size of the table you would give them: seats at a 6-foot table is the number the kids-table arithmetic below runs on. Everything else is which of the two assignments you can defend to the parents.
Stay with parents
| Table | Capacity | Guests |
|---|---|---|
| Family | 8 | Parent 1, Parent 2, Kid 1, Kid 2, A1, A2, A3, A4 |
Synthetic. Chosen because this household is staying together. No age or supervision rule is implied.
Agreed kids table
| Table | Capacity | Guests |
|---|---|---|
| Adults | 8 | Parent 1, Parent 2, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6 |
| Kids | 6 | Kid 1, Kid 2, Aunt |
Synthetic. The kids are not an intact-with-parents party in this example. Agreeing to split is an explicit assumption, not a silent override.
Do not split a household by accident
If the children must stay with their parents, the kids-table example no longer applies. Change the party list on purpose, or keep the first assignment.
Treating four children as one party is the same problem as a family that outgrows a table; the table calculator shows whether a separate kids table changes the count at all.
What the numbers say about children at a table
Children come up in 9 percent of the 537 seating problems we coded from real forum threads, which puts it alongside plus-ones rather than above them: it is a table decision about a handful of guests, not a whole plan.
The arithmetic is simple. A six-foot banquet table seats six children comfortably, an eight-seat round seats eight, and both need the same footprint as their adult version — 12 by 12 ft for a round. Twelve children is two banquet tables or one round table and a half, so the common split is one table for the children and two seats saved at the parents' table.
Related
Fictional checked example, not a customer wedding and not a live Seat Everyone solver result.
About 10 minutes. Software, not a waitlist — your chart tonight.