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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of you need to remember that this is not about YOUR kids' birthday once a year. This is about being overwhelmed by the sheer number of birthday parties for all of your kids' friends.
My son is 8 and my daughter is 6. Right now, it seems that all we do is take our kids to birthday parties every single weekend. And that includes having to buy presents for every single kid and block out an entire morning or afternoon every weekend to go help chaperone the party. Add in your kids' sports or other activities on top of all of that. [b]When do you ever have time for yourself, or have time to do things that you need to do?[/b] And some weekends there are multiple birthday parties to go to. Between both our kids, we've had many weekends with 3 parties to go to.
Maybe some of you love going to these parties as much as your kids do, and that's fine. But when is enough enough? At some point you need to scale things back or just do a fun family activity or weekend trip in lieu of a party. [/quote]

Maybe you shouldnt have had multiple kids if your weekend priority is time to yourself?

Beyond a certain age they are dropoff anyway, you can come home, errands, gym, whatever.

You can also just decline. Of course we do weekend trips etc.[/quote]

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