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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand this generation. Why do parents supply their kids with so much shit, want to invite a ton of kids to a $500 venue, and then make the awkward no gift plea.

How about you stop buying so much shit for your kids. Have a small simple party with 8 or less close friends, and let those kids get their friend a small gift to all open together.

We have lost basic manners, gift giving, thinking of and enjoyment of others, etc...

In this day of huge parties every week with kids most kids barely know or care about, parents get the present or regift another. No one is personal. No one opens their presents in front of guests anymore. The ettiquette is now on parents to supply a major party and now because of that, we over invite and now say no to 20+ crappy gifts the birthday kid won’t like because no one cares to get them things they like. It’s just another thing we have removed from our kids and taken on ourself. 
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I hate baby and wedding showers with the long tedious gift opening. I am so glad kids don’t open gifts at parties. There are a few really good reasons for this. 
1. We live in an area with a lot of economic diversity. Some kids gave my 3yr old $20 gifts and some gave him $5 gifts or nothing. I wouldn’t want anyone to feel bad. 
2. My kid is 3, but I imagine it’s the same for several more years. He is absolutely overwhelmed by many gifts and becomes a greedy monster if he gets inundated with gifts. We followed the custom of his preschool and invited the whole class and the convention of our neighborhood and invited neighbors kids. It took us a month to open gifts by opening 1 eachs 1-2 days. He plays with the gifts this way when he spends a bit of time with each gift. When he opens a bunch at once, he gets really into 1 thing and the rest are forgotten forever. 
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Oh it's so tedious to have showers with presents.  And so hard for kids to open presents when they get something many...[/quote]

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