Alcohol for adults at kids' birthday parties? (infant, toddlers, son)
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If the adults can't go without alcohol for one day, they have a drinking problem!
Also it sets a good example for the kids when the adults can show they can have a good time without alcohol. Not to mention that an adult who has had too much to drink can be frightening to a kid.
If it is an all adult party, then fine bring out the alcohol and booze it up, but if a kids party, no alcohol.
It's quite a stretch to say that serving beer at a party means people can't go without it.
I think you and everyone else is missing the point entirely..........
This is "supposed" to be a birthday party for THE CHILD............NOT entertainment time for the adults.
Also no matter how hard you try "some" people will abuse the free alcohol available and then who do you call the adult's parents to come and get them?
I don't understand why the child cannot have a nice party and the adults have some entertainment at the same time. In our family a child's birthday party is time for the family to gather and have a good time together. The birthday child AND the guests are meant to have a nice time.
I don't understand why the child cannot have a nice party and the adults have some entertainment at the same time. In our family a child's birthday party is time for the family to gather and have a good time together. The birthday child AND the guests are meant to have a nice time.
Is alcohol necessary for adults to have a nice time?
In our region MN/ND....it varies. If it is at a house, then we have been where beer or wine has been made available but the focus is on the kids and the cake and presents. Most parties are pretty small scale for the most part. My wife and I dont drink so no issues there, and if a birthday party is held at our house wouldnt buy any alcohol for anyone, but if someone brought a beer or wine cooler we wouldnt disallow it.
In general though we usually had birthday parties for him and his friends at party places like a bouncy house, movie theatre, the YMCA, etc and that works out best usually and less cleanup for us parents afterwards. Especially true since our twins are born in February, which is not a great outdoors month in our region (too cold usually) and our oldest in late April (which again can be an ugly time of year muddy from the snowmelt).
Is alcohol necessary for adults to have a nice time?
I don't think so -- and no one in those parties forces you to drink alcohol, there are usually also soft drinks.
To me either way is okay. Where I was from, parents dropped off the child for a party that would last 2-3 hours, and were expected to pick them up at very close to the exact time. Kids would bring presents, play games, have some food like hotdogs and chips, watch the birthday kid open the presents, have some cake and ice cream and then leave. A fun time for the kids and the parents get a 2-3 hour break from their child.
Where I live now, the whole family plus can go to the party, adults sit around socializing, kids run around and play, might come and sit with their parents for a while to rest and then go play some more, food tends to be more elaborate and there can be tons of it, the party may go on well into the night, kids will likely bust open a piñata while adults watch and laugh. Some adults drink a little and some might drink too much, others might not drink at all. Parties like this can be to celebrate the birthday of a one year old who of course is mostly oblivious to the whole thing.
Or they have a party at a pizza place where there are long tables and plenty of beer and pizza and soft drinks and kids are given tokens to play - and if they run out, they can go to their own parents to get money to buy more.
It's just a regional/cultural difference. The parties can be fun for the kids either way.
Yes, when a kid party is a masquerade for an adult party, serve liquor. That's how my family did it.
But if it is truly a day for your child to celebrate with his/her peers, I'd skip the liquor.
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