When do you stop giving birthday parties for your kids? (parent, wife)
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No kidding. It's really irritating when people expect special attention just because they were born once. I appreciate parents who never let that crap get started in the first place.
I don't imagine them ever stopping, really. Our birthdays are simple family things. A nice meal, either at home or in a restaurant, and then cake and sparkling juice, and some presents. It's just our immediate family. We do the same for adults as well as kids. I don't see a reason to stop at any particular age.
No kidding. It's really irritating when people expect special attention just because they were born once. I appreciate parents who never let that crap get started in the first place.
How is what someone else's family does about their child's birthday "really irritating"? Certainly, if you are invited, you are free to decline. You are also free to not celebrate your own birthday or your family's birthdays. Most people enjoy a celebration of some description because we find it a joyous event.
We had our son's fourth grade party in the backyard, but some children went inside the house to use the bathroom. I'm an artist, but it didn't occur to me anyone would pay attention to some of the art displayed here and there. There were 3 figure studies. Very demure. A bare back from the waist up with the face turned to the viewer... such as that. No frontal nudity at all. When one mother drove up to fetch her daughter, the child ran across the yard yelling, "Mama, Mama, they have naked pictures in their house!"
Uh, excluding 1st birthday, we don't do birthday parties.
We do something small with family. I plan an outing that includes lunch or dinner, salon/nail shop, movie theater, and shopping.
My kids' birthdays fall around Thanksgiving and Christmas, so peers are often on vacation or busy for parties and/or broke from Christmas shopping. With their birthdays close to winter holidays we keep it low key.
I wouldve had tears of joy to get a birthday like that growing up
My kids' birthdays are approaching (they'll be turning 9 and 7) and we'll be giving them parties at our house. We've given them some kind of party every year, and our friends with kids in that same age range do the same.
I think back to my childhood and remember having parties during the elementary school years, but then at some point they just stopped. I can't recall how old I was when that happened, and I have no recollection of how I felt about it, or even if I cared at all.
So now I'm wondering, at what point do the birthday parties fade away?
Well they are 19 and 21. I didn't stop - they started to want to spend birthdays with friends at the movies, mall and dinner. I think at around 12 or so.
Now when we are lucky enough to have them around, we usually take them out to dinner.
There is rampant birthday party escalation in my neck of the woods (not like you see on crazy TV shows - "My Super Sweet 16" or whatever). With the child density in the area, early elementary school (with multiple children) was a rota of visits to the same 5 bounce house places, trampoline places, gymnastics places, etc. It got to the point that my kids had already been to 3 parties at the same place that season, they didnt want to go back for their own party so a new idea had to be thought up.
As elementary school turned to middle school, parties my children attended (not their own) turned into overnight trips to places like Great Wolf Lodge, local hotel suite, Myrtle Beach or 5 hrs away in DC for the weekend to watch MLB games. Very fun for my children to go to, nerve wracking at times for my wife and I and crazy excessive. [I certainly never had that opportunity growing up and havent provided anything to that scale for my children]
I think mine morphed around ten. But in those days a party was games and food at home. I wonder if they ever really stop now that they can be taking friends to laser tag or trampoline place.
I can't understand having a first birthday party when the child's oblivious, but not having one when they're eight and fully understand what they're missing out on.
My first and last birthday party was when I was 7. To this day I think my mother lied about inviting anyone, she said she invited 'all the kids on the block', but nobody came or mentioned it. Didn't want one after that.
My kids had birthday parties at random years, whenever they really wanted one. The last was in the mid teens.
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