Rant: Why are there so many holidays where kids expect gifts"
by Melissa Willets posted in Parenting
Am I the only parent out there who feels like they are constantly buying gifts for their kids for random holidays"
It starts with Halloween. No longer is it enough to slap a costume on your kiddos, and parade them up and down the street to collect candy. Now, we are expected to create unique Halloween treat sacks with skeleton pencils, mummy bubbles, and witch notepads for every child in the class. If you don't prepare a Halloween-themed breakfast, lunch and dinner for your child, um, yeah. You suck! At least this is what social media will lead you to believe.
It seems this increasingly spooky celebratory occasion is just the first in a never-ending succession of holidays when you are going to feel pressured to spend money to make every moment as magical and memorable as possible, instead of just pretty fun. Next is Christmas, which, okay, stands alone as far as holidays go. But parents are going more and more overboard each year in an effort to top whatever they've done in the past, and what other parents are doing, from deeply embedding themselves in their Elf on the Shelf obsessions, to gifting kids with the most expensive, lavish, or on-trend toys they can find. Then they make sure everyone knows about whatever festive feat they've accomplished, so, what" So others can feel inferior"
But it doesn't end there. Just six weeks after Christmas, my kids expect Valentine's Day gifts. Because every other kid in their ...
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