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[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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One of the reasons we do “no gift parties” is because my child has several friends where purchasing a gift would be a fincancial hardship for their family. We think it would be nice to spare them any awkwardness  or discomfort in showing up empty handed or stretching their money to buy a gift my child doesn’t need.  But keep criticizing our manners pp, the view must be nice from that high horse.[/quote]

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