Birthday Parties: Teen
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Kids' Birthday Parties
Asked by C.S. from Kansas City
on May 28, 2011
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*Do you drop your child/children off at birthday parties (not slumber parties) or do you stay with them?
*When you host birthday parties do you allow kids to be drop...
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- My son has sensory processing issues so I never dropped him off at a party until he was 7. I still won't drop him off if it is a swim party or anything near water. I h...
- My kids are two and four so I always stay. Unless it's a close family friend ( we will all attend) otherwise I take the invited child and my hubby stays home with the ...
- We always held small parties and the parents never stayed. We never felt the need to ask them to. We used the "age rule" - when our son turned 4, he invited 4 friend...
Ideas for 16 Year Old Son's Birthday
Asked by M.C. from Chicago
on September 25, 2009
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Hello All,
I am looking for ideas of ways to celebrate my 16 year old's birthday. Thinking about a surprise party. He says he does not want a party but as a family hi...
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- If he says he does not want a party, ask him what he would like to do instead? Maybe just he and one friend could go to Dave and Busters or ESPNZone for an afternoon? ...
- Laser tag or paint ball party.
- Surprise him with dinner at his favorite place with the just the family- maybe bowling or some other activity that he enjoys with the family afterwards. As much as ...
Birthday Party
Asked by M.B. from Houston
on February 17, 2008
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I would like some ideas for my 6 year old daughters 7th birthday party. She is suddenly so into her birthday. She wants to invite everyone she knows. She had a sleep...
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- My rule was always you can have as many guests as you are years old-- 7 years old, 7 friends (or 7 including you) ... especially for a sleepover! it seems to help som...
- I dreaded parties when my son was littler. I thought I'd go crazy if we had to go to Chuck E. Cheeses one more time. Those kinds of places would completely stress me...
- Take her to partycheap.com or orientaltrading.com and let her look at all of the party themes and give her a budget. Then she and you can decide what is more importan...
First "Friend" Birthday Party for a 5 Year Old
Asked by S.L. from Boise
on January 20, 2009
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Up until now, we've only had family birthday parties for my boys. A friend of mine said she does the first "friend" party for her kids' 5th, and I think that's a marve...
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- Making paper rockets is cool.. You don't want to have so much going on that you spend the entire afternoon or day with all of these kids in your house, you will be exh...
- At five most moms feel okay with dropping off it is at a private residence. Go to Orientaltrading.com or BirthdayExpress. Oriental Trading has great craft ideas an...
- You already have great ideas... how about reading a book about a space adventure? Make friendly alien maskes as a craft. (Paper plates, yarn, consrtuction paper and gl...
Slumber Parties
Asked by T.T. from Houston
on February 13, 2010
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I have a 7 year old son who is in the 1st grade and was just invited to a sleepover birthday party by one of the boys in his class. The boy is a good kid and is even ...
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- Let him go to the "party" part and pick him p before the sleepover part.
- Our rule of thumb is that the kids need to have 2 play days at our house and 2 play days at the friend's house before we allow a sleepover. This helps us all get to kn...
- Perhaps he doesn't have to be there all night. What if you pick him up at 10:30? I didn't let my kids attend sleepovers until the end of 4th grade. Just my preference ...
Things to Do at a 17 Year Old's Party
Asked by M.P. from Dallas
on August 10, 2009
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My daughter will be turning 17 soon and is planning a party at home. I need suggestions for activies/games for the party of about 12 guest. I know it is never a good...
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- Don't worry too much about planning activities, these things pretty much take care of themselves at that age. Although the prior moms who wrote had some really great i...
- My really good friend hired a Las Vegas style company for her son's 15th birthday party. They brought in Black Jack and roulette tables, and set them up in the garage...
- I don't know when you are planning on doing the party, but my daughters birthday is in November when the New Moon movie is coming out...so we are doing a Twilight/New ...
Birthday Party Etiquette
Asked by S.D. from Chicago
on May 13, 2008
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My 4-year-old daughter was invited to a 2-hour birthday pizza party at a local park district facility on a Friday night. The birthday girl is from my daughter's presch...
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- My daughter is 4 years old, too. I've just decided that if I don't know the parents well, my husband or I will stay at the party. I don't ask if I can come, but usus...
- Our daughter is now 12 but my husband and I would attend all birthday parties that she was invited too up untill she was about 8. I say attend this will also give you...
- Typically, the parents giving the party will indicate somehow whether or not parents are invited to stay. If they didn't give an indication, I would just ask. You ca...
Birthday Party Ideas
Asked by C.J. from Mobile
on February 7, 2008
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Hi ladies...I'm asking this for a friend. She has a little girl that is turning 4 in March and wants to throw her a special birthday party but not spend an arm and a l...
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- If she goes to church somewhere, most churches let you reserve a room (usually the gym or fellowship hall) for free if it's your own church. If they don't belong to a...
- My son turned 4 in December and we had a great party at Chuck E. Cheese. It was very reasonably priced and everyone had a great time. Best of all there was NO cleanup...
- I have been to parties at Burger King in the play room part, Mcdonalds and if she knows how the local skating ring. My daughter loved hers at the skating ring. I kno...
Teen Birthday Party Ideas?
Asked by C.D. from Boston
on November 7, 2008
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My daughter is turning 14 soon and we're about to plan her birthday party. Traditionally, I've said a max of 10 for sleepovers, which includes herself, seven friends,...
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- Hi C., My daughter is 15 and when we have done in the past is "a spa beauty day", It is pretty in- expensive if you have a beauty school in your area (like I do) its...
- I rented 3 lanes at the local bowling alley. I had a cake and drinks available and had a fun goody bag for everyone to take with them. The kids invited both of their c...
- Hi C., I host birthday parties for all ages and have a good assortment of pottery items that the girls would love to paint, and it won't break your budget! People gen...
Advice on Teen Birthday Party...
Asked by R.D. from San Francisco
on May 6, 2010
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Hi All,
My son turns 14 next week and we are hosting a birthday party. Family is coming and he decided to invite friends. 15 of them. Problem is he wants to have ...
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- I wouldn't allow the games either. This is a birthday party - the kids need to interact with each other, not have three or four of them sitting at a game while the ot...
- Hi R., I dislike those violent and suggestive video games. Seems like you are going out of your way to make a nice party for your son. Since you are a hippie, you...
- It is your house and you have every right to not allow the games or anything else! Both him and his friends will get over it. Sounds like there are lots of other thing...
