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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dd is 11 and her friends open gifts at parties.  The girls are very involved in picking out the gifts for their friends and all enjoy seeing what was given.  Same goes for our ds who is 9.  We even opened gifts at my 6 yr old ds bowling party this year.  [b]The boys loved it[/b] and it only took 15 min.  We make a point of taking a picture of the birthday kid and the gift giver after each gift is opened.  This helps keep the other kids moving around and makes for a great Thank you note sent after the party.

We tend to have smaller parties with 10 or less guests which make this more manageable.  Teaching kids to be gracious is important.  So is teaching them that when they go to a party they are there to celebrate someone elses birthday and that child will be getting the gifts.[/quote]

They don't love it.  My son was at a bowling party and hated watching his best friend open gifts.  Don't kid yourself.[/quote].

No, your kid is just a selfish little twit who doesn't give a crap about his best friend and only wanted to bowl and you are accepting of it as normal behavior.  [/quote]

Pattern has evolved.  Anyone who disagrees with you will cause you to insult her child.  [/quote]

I was the original poster of this comment that has her kids open gifts at parties. I did not reply or call you a name.  I based my comment about the kids loving the gift opening because each and every child asked me more than once if the birthday boy would open the gifts.  When we had finished bowling, eaten lunch and had cake we still had time left in the party room so we went ahead and opened gifts.  All of the boys cheered, grrabbed their gifts and and were clamoring for thier turn to give their gift.  Maybe this all depends on the norm in your group of friends.  In our social circle kids open the gifts at all of the parties.  Because we know that the gift givers take time to actually pick out a gift for the specific birthday child. When you do that you care about the birthday kid opening your gift.  This seems to work well for our group of friends and this thread has made me even more grateful for that fact.[/quote]

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