Re: more birthday ettiquete questions

In article <gVnXf.62483$Jd.35000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, toypup says...


"Banty" <Banty_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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LOL! Did she volunteeer to hold the family party?

No. I was wondering aloud what to do about my side of the family. They'd
be disappointed if we only had a kids party and I was wondering how to make
it a kids and family party. She suggested celebrating separately.



When did kid birthdays get to be an extended family bonding ritual? OK, the
*first* birthday is a big deal (at least lately), but what happened to the
immediate family (meaning, the household) serving the cake and singing 'happy
birhday' after dinner? Even the kid birthday parties used to be something more
or less special, not held every single year.

What should be a simple and sentimental little celebration has turned into a
quasi-obligatory set of public entertainments, where the *whole class* gets
invited, then all the extended family gets invited (hope the two sides get along
- would it have to be *three* celebrations if they don't?). With hired clowns
and magicians. It's escalated into silliness.

Immediate family and the kids' real friends (in which case the parents should
already know the other parents, therefore already have their addresses).
Period.

Banty (who quickly got tired of the Chuck ee Cheese circuit)


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