What do you think about birthday parties at fast food restaurants? (McDonalds, Chick Fil A, etc...)

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Anonymous wrote:Do I have to bring organic free range gifts to offset the fast food party?

Yes, only toys made from reclaimed wood will do. Or maybe you could just get some carbon credits in the birthday kids honor.

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I did let my dd go 6yrs old.

Mom brought lots,of,extra fruit and snacks. And each child,got a happy meal. Did loved it.

Personally I,thought it was sort of random. A park would've been cleaner. I supported,the mom bc she did This for her child.

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Anonymous wrote:There may have been a distant ancestor that once consumed a primarily plant matter; for example a number of primates with whom we share a common ancestor consume plant based diets (as mentioned, gorillas). However modern day homo sapiens most certainly evolved to be omnivorous.

For starters, homo sapiens are incapable of producing B12 which, amongst others things, is integral for cognitive function, and in nature can only be sourced from animals (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110926165852.htm). Further, increased consumption of chains of long fatty acids which are found in meat are largely believed to be responsible for the relatively fast development of the homo sapien brain (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-02/nsae-tsf021706.php).

And let?s not get started on the human palate, other trace minerals such as iodine, etc.

Bottom line is that there may be ancestors to homo sapiens that consumed primarily vegetable based diets, however homo sapiens are drastically different, particularly neurologically, and to suggest that humans are physiologically meant to be vegan or vegetarian is ludicrous.

And, this has what to do with anything related to birthday parties.

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Anonymous wrote:what do you do at a fast food restaurant bday party--just eat and play in the play area? or is there another organized activity? if the kids are just eating happy meals, ice cream cones and then playing, sure sounds ok to me. i bet the kids would love it and it's cheap and easy for the parents.

It would not be that cheap if they also included meals for the parents. Tacky to make parents get their own meals.

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Anonymous wrote:what do you do at a fast food restaurant bday party--just eat and play in the play area? or is there another organized activity? if the kids are just eating happy meals, ice cream cones and then playing, sure sounds ok to me. i bet the kids would love it and it's cheap and easy for the parents.

It would not be that cheap if they also included meals for the parents. Tacky to make parents get their own meals.

As opposed to the parties without food for the parents held elsewhere. I've yet to go to a party where the parents had food unless it was left over from what the kids did not eat. Cake and cupcakes included.

[Anonymous]

This is beyond my experience. I have 3 kids, 9, 7, and 5 and have never invited to a fast food restaurant party. I just can't imagine any of DCs' parents even considering it.

I think it's in bad form, because fast food pretty much sucks nutritionally. That said, we have been invited to a Chuck E. Cheese party, and I feel the same about that, with an extra frisson of dislike for the games and materialism. You should have heard the rumblings among the parents at the Chuck E. Cheese party -- the parents of the birthday child were not very popular that day. They sheepishly said they'd given into their child's wishes, and the rest of us just kind of rolled our eyes.

If invited by a good friend, our kids would attend no matter how DH and I disliked the site of the party.

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Goodness.

I had one of my kids' party at McDs, some years ago. He is a winter baby and we lived in a small place at the time. This was before any indoor trampoline or bouncy places opened around here (I'm not local). It was a fun and relatively inexpensive party.

The kids played for awhile, ate, played, had cake and left. It was quick and painless, lol. And kept me from having a dozen kids running around my small home. I prefer outdoor parties but in the NE in winter, that is not possible.

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Anonymous wrote:This is beyond my experience. I have 3 kids, 9, 7, and 5 and have never invited to a fast food restaurant party. I just can't imagine any of DCs' parents even considering it.

I think it's in bad form, because fast food pretty much sucks nutritionally. That said, we have been invited to a Chuck E. Cheese party, and I feel the same about that, with an extra frisson of dislike for the games and materialism. You should have heard the rumblings among the parents at the Chuck E. Cheese party -- the parents of the birthday child were not very popular that day. They sheepishly said they'd given into their child's wishes, and the rest of us just kind of rolled our eyes.

If invited by a good friend, our kids would attend no matter how DH and I disliked the site of the party.

Well, you sound like a bundle of joy!

You know, your kid could go to Chuck E Cheeses, grow up and graduate college! Mine did

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is beyond my experience. I have 3 kids, 9, 7, and 5 and have never invited to a fast food restaurant party. I just can't imagine any of DCs' parents even considering it.

I think it's in bad form, because fast food pretty much sucks nutritionally. That said, we have been invited to a Chuck E. Cheese party, and I feel the same about that, with an extra frisson of dislike for the games and materialism. You should have heard the rumblings among the parents at the Chuck E. Cheese party -- the parents of the birthday child were not very popular that day. They sheepishly said they'd given into their child's wishes, and the rest of us just kind of rolled our eyes.

If invited by a good friend, our kids would attend no matter how DH and I disliked the site of the party.

Well, you sound like a bundle of joy!

You know, your kid could go to Chuck E Cheeses, grow up and graduate college! Mine did

I'd go so far to say as PP and the rest of the parents were acting like rude assholes. You set up a dynamic where the hosts felt compelled to "sheepishly said they'd given into their child's wishes" (shock of shocks, letting a kid pick his own birthday?!) and that "the rest of us just kind of rolled our eyes". The host would not have said anything at all I am sure if she or he did not feel the complete disapproval, etc. from you. If you had all remained neutral instead of just absolutely needing to make it obvious I'm sure the host wouldn't have felt the need to justify your need to roll your eyes (sometimes as grownups we have to fake it, because you know, we are grownups trying to not be assholes).