How to convince me to attend your child’s birthday party
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If you have kids, at some point, you have to plan their birthday parties. For their first three years of life, these are easy enough to manage. You invite your parents over, get a cake, the child headbutts it, they cry, you drink, class dismissed. Right around age four, things begin to get complicated. You have to start inviting over their little friends, and because the little friends can’t drive, their parents must show up with them. The flip side of this coin is that my children invariably get invited to these parties, which requires I also attend. 100% of the time, I don’t want to attend a child’s birthday party. The kids become rabid, everything is sticky, and I don’t want to talk about the new Tepui tent some dad named Arthur installed atop his vintage Toyota 4Runner. However, like almost everything in life, there are exceptions I’m willing to make, and in a shocking turn of events, I’ve listed those exceptions below for you to read!
How to convince me to attend your child’s birthday party
How to convince me to attend your child’s…
How to convince me to attend your child’s birthday party
If you have kids, at some point, you have to plan their birthday parties. For their first three years of life, these are easy enough to manage. You invite your parents over, get a cake, the child headbutts it, they cry, you drink, class dismissed. Right around age four, things begin to get complicated. You have to start inviting over their little friends, and because the little friends can’t drive, their parents must show up with them. The flip side of this coin is that my children invariably get invited to these parties, which requires I also attend. 100% of the time, I don’t want to attend a child’s birthday party. The kids become rabid, everything is sticky, and I don’t want to talk about the new Tepui tent some dad named Arthur installed atop his vintage Toyota 4Runner. However, like almost everything in life, there are exceptions I’m willing to make, and in a shocking turn of events, I’ve listed those exceptions below for you to read!