Life in the Mom Lane
How to Control Growingly Elaborate Birthday Parties
Parents are faced with the dilemma of putting together a great party without wanting to spend their life savings.
Ok. I’ll admit it. This week when I sat down to write Life in The Mom Lane I was fresh out of good ideas. As I’ve done on the past I put the call out to some of my mom friends and, much to my surprise, was bombarded with opinions on a rather unexpected topic. Yes, everyone wants to talk about the holidays but, at the same time, there was something else on a lot of minds. It seems that, these days, the pressure to host the perfect birthday party can be overwhelming to say the very least. Gone are the days when, as one of my friends pointed out, “a birthday party was cake after dinner, some streamers over the table and you could invite two friends over to play.” Today parties are becoming more and more elaborate and the expectations for …
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8:40 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
I've always felt that young children absolutely love more simple parties because it's those parties that they can actually participate in, rather than just watch a show or presenter. Older kids can now watch MTV and those elaborate shows that show rich kids and their parties...so yes, they want them too. But I've always had this suspicion that it really wasn't the kids that wanted those big … more ›