Parenting: Best practices and lesson learned.

[Spiral]

Re: Parenting: Best practices and lesson learned.

@jaan_leva

Some good suggestions in this thread.

This will turn the *guns and artillery *toward me but what the hell?

STOP making your kids life more complicated and DEPENDENT on things like birthday celebrations, year in, year out. Their life will get harder anyway, they don’t need to worry about celebrating birthdays as a MUST have to live their life. In this materialistic era, do something that will help them face life and teach them to be as simple as possible. Many Desi families celebrate birthdays religiously, with mindless, reckless spending, and restaurant reservations. If you must show your kids how much you love them and care for them then give them a nice gift of value, save for them instead of this nonsense every single freaking year. And if you feel that since OTHER kids do it and they see OTHER kids birthdays being celebrated and that might effect them negatively then just do the damn deed IN YOUR HOUSE among your family and not trouble other 50 people in hopes to get cheap gifts.

I agree with this.. I so do. I am having my son’s first bday soon at home with just 10 people… most of them my husband’s friend who have never been invited before at any ocassion.

I have friend who recently had her daughter’s bday party (in Pakistan) and it was just wayyyyyyyyyyyy too much. I only saw pics of her party and from what it looked it was all just crazy crazy barbie… princess stuff and the girls were wearing all these small off the shoulder dresses … strapless tight fitted stuff.. i was totally shocked. But maybe their parents are comfortable with their daughters wearing all of this and having these supermodel, barbie, princess parties.