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Posted by: lenseview 3 months ago

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Author's entertaining (& frustrating) experience with over the top birthdays. Some kids still have simple birthday parties, right? But how did we get to where some (many) kids today get parties whose extravagance seems to exceed most State Dinners? Values are warped, social pressures nutty.Whatever happened to pin the tail on the donkey?!

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y_soitenly3 months ago

Great article.
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ccolec3 months ago

This has gotten out of control over the past 5-10 years. What happened to pin the tail on the donkey?
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  quackpot3 months ago
  
  The donkey sued for sexual harassment.
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lenseview3 months ago

Friend of mine lives in a town where all the parents in his kid's class seem to compete to see who can have the "best" party for their kids. It's not a particularly wealthy town (people are doing fine but aren't rich), yet so many give their kids these over the top parties. He says they don't even really want to do it but they want to "fit in" (whatever that means), they feel some kind of conformist social pressure. They also they want to appear like they have plenty of money, at least as much as all the neighbors. It's nuts.
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Jenhahaha3 months ago

It is seriously getting over the top! If you have a small petting zoo come to your house for your little kid's birthday, either the next year's party will be a disappointment or have to be even bigger. Something else is the goodie bags. It seems that every kid gets a "going away gift" just for being at the birthday party.
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farhadd3 months ago

I'm actually petrified that the author lives round where I do, and our kids are going to have the same sort of expectations as this Arabella kid has for her birthday. :-(
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moxxxxxxxxxx3 months ago

The article identified the problem "the nouveau riche." New money means frivolous, lack of restraint, superficial.
Old money means frugal, disciplined, puposeful.
Which is why old money is old and new money comes and goes.
We need to prepare ourselves for the effects "new money" is having on the children. We are going to end up with a generation of people who think they deserve what ever they desire. A selfish generation taht will take more than they give.
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pookka3 months ago

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