Comments on: Rule #14: Use Your Child’s Birthday to Flaunt Your Cash

By: Rule #90: Make Your Kids Share Their Birthday — Bad Parenting Advice

Rule #90: Make Your Kids Share Their Birthday — Bad Parenting Advice — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:08:23 +0000

[...] You’ve suffered and have a twitch in your right eye to prove it. Which is why you should get your kids’ birthdays out of the way and make them share a single celebration. One day. One piñata. One cake. One video. One vomit cleanup. [...]

By: bloggingmom67

bloggingmom67 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:01:08 +0000

Love your post … kids’ parties do seem like one parents effort to outdo the others, especially when the kids are so young they don’t even care. Fun reading.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:42:25 +0000

Absolutely priceless. You’ve done it again!

By: Father Knows Worst

Father Knows Worst — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:45:03 +0000

@Julie: At least it wasn’t “Pin the Hood Ornament on the Lexus” which is certainly gaining popularity in some pockets of society. You know, the uber-rich ones.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:43:39 +0000

TAIL on the donkey. Sheesh. Good thing no one pays me to write. Oh yea! They do!

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:42:27 +0000

Bravo. When I was growing up, we had squat and I still felt like my parties were celebratory. We went through my mom’s Baker’s Cocunut Book of cakes, picked an animal and then listened to my mother curse and yell as she tried to assemble pieces of two round cakes, coconut, and food coloring into an elephant or a cat. We ate it at the picnic table with some friends, ran around, maybe played pin the tale on something or other and maybe did a craft project.

I am really looking forward to my kids’ next birthdays since we have a yard again. There will be cake (not homemade since I don’t want the swearing and the yelling), crafts, a game or two, running around, and fun.

Julie
http://lazyjulie.blogspot.com