re: Ideas for my son to start inviting his friends to our house

Got enough room to get a couple sets of Bag boards?? Do the cookout like others said, and get a tourney going.

Obviously this a first cheap go at seeing if something will work, and then you'll have one of the other parents who will get them, if they see the kids are enjoying your house some. Some people are just arsehats like that.

Shop for them with your son so they are "cool" and tell him you want to do this with him to see him more. May be to young to "get it" but he'll remember it later in life.

Your daughter is the kicker so definitely find a way to ship her off, but also remember that in a decade or so those boys won't be ignoring your home cause she's "bugging them".