tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092410187415328435.post4970368156432433308..comments2023-05-29T03:45:04.756-07:00Comments on @miniMum: Minimalist....birthday parties? 5 easy steps@miniMumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674849552434945776noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092410187415328435.post-42243146557752389412013-01-01T08:46:01.727-08:002013-01-01T08:46:01.727-08:00This is very late in coming, but I'm just now ...This is very late in coming, but I'm just now reading these. We had this same problem with both my kids' parties last year. It was my son's 6th and daughter's 8th. I love kids and get very silly and animated with them and had lots of fun, simple, inexpensive activities planned. However, I get a little performance shy when there are parents standing around watching. The parties ended up being very stressful for me. When my daughter's best friend had a birthday that same year, she was allowed to have one friend over for a sleepover. I was nervous, because it was my girl's first sleepover, but it went beautifully, and I have decided that this will be our go-to plan when we want to do more than a simple family party for them. My kids are thrilled with the idea of having a special friend sleep over, and the stress of a parent hanging around is eliminated.Erinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06164035346601452435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092410187415328435.post-37628290762504558262011-09-06T14:14:47.028-07:002011-09-06T14:14:47.028-07:00I hear you! When the parents stay you are giving ...I hear you! When the parents stay you are giving two parties.<br /><br />Personally I often use my kids' parties as the opportunity to get together with all my friends too, but your kids' friends parents aren't always your best friends.<br /><br />With younger parties the adults stay, but I guess we're lucky as when the kids are 5+, it is assumed here that the parties are dropoff, to everyone's relief.<br /><br />What about "We have ample adult supervision so you parents are welcome to drop your kids off and go party yourselves!"@miniMumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01674849552434945776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092410187415328435.post-73724978802510440982011-09-05T17:44:29.652-07:002011-09-05T17:44:29.652-07:00I'd like to get off the consumerist explosion ...I'd like to get off the consumerist explosion triathelon of boredom that are modern kid parties, too. One thing I'd like to know, is what happened to parents dropping their kids off for an hour or at most two, and picking them up again? I have realized that if my daughter has 4 friends to her 7th birthday party, if I can't find a way for the parents to realize this is old school, and that it's a KID party, they will linger the whole time (which I know I'd give blood for a way out of staying, in their shoes!) and then I will have to find out how to seat and have room and refreshments for 16 or so people if you include my kids. I simply cannot do it, and all I want is to serve cake and let the kids have some fun, and then go, much like birthday parties were when I was a kid. No pinata being hammered at for an hour until everyone is bored stiff or else someone got injured. No tacky theme and matching plastic everything, everywhere you look. And no roomful of parents uncomfortably crowding into corners, just...being....there. These are all people I know and trust, and who know and trust me, so there should not be any issues of being afraid to leave their kid at my house, or else they wouldn't be being invited.<br /><br />But how do you say it, when the current prevailing practice seems to be that parents hang around the whole time?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092410187415328435.post-57586866030162455082011-03-09T23:41:55.341-08:002011-03-09T23:41:55.341-08:00I'm taking notes for when this happens with In...I'm taking notes for when this happens with Indiana -for her 2-yo b-day we had just one party for family, godparents, friends. A couple of mom-friends with their kids came the day after to play and have left over cake.. She probably won't have a "kid party" for another year or two.<br />The party favor idea has crept in here as well (I've heard some complaints..) I think it's a good idea to have a basket of lollipops or choco bars at the door when the kids leave and each can take one to go (enough with the plastic junk already!). Or, to make sure each kid gets an equal share of candy, divide all the candy in little paper bags (can decorate these with your child and perhaps put a sticker or a scrap or a balloon in there too) and hide them in the house and let the kids each find one, and that is all the candy that will be served.Vappuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037052581038901436noreply@blogger.com