What is a tiered birthday party, and is it rude to plan one"
by Melissa Willets posted in Parenting
If you follow my blog posts, you probably know that I am not the biggest fan of kids' birthday parties; a less-than-popular opinion, I know. I especially ruffled feathers last year for suggesting it may be rude to throw a big party for a child with a December birthday because it's so close to the holidays. Cringe. Sorry to anyone who now hates me.
I have long-favored smaller, family celebrations, or perhaps a trip to mark a birthday, or even a little get-together with a few close friends. But a big blowout party with the entire class at a bouncy house fun factory" Just not my cup of tea. Again, sorry. Kind of.
My feelings on birthday parties being what they are, I was interested to come across this post on Kidspot that describes a so-called tiered birthday party, and questions whether it's mean-spirited. The idea is that a bunch of kids, say, the whole class, get invited to the bouncy house thing, but then a smaller, select group is asked to continue on to another after-party, perhaps at the child's house to sleep over. The notion of the two-tiered party first came up on Mumsnet, where a mom said her son was only invited to the first tier of a party, and she felt bad for him. This mom acknowledged that maybe the birthday child had wanted the party this way, but asked if parents were obliged to comply.
My take: Um, no! I'm imagining how my daughter would feel if she found out only certain kids were invited to another par...
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