The concept of this tweet is as relevant today as it was in 1919 when it was first posted
Honestly, I’d prefer this over the gotta-invite-a-billion-kids local play-place sugar-fest where the kids are mostly just running around in packs.
Get a small group of kids. Let them play and actually enjoy each other’s company. Done
I heard someone on the radio yesterday say that kids’ birthday parties these days are expected to have things like bouncy houses and performers, or to be held at an event location with games and such. I’m not all that old and, when I was growing up, it was only the richest kids who got that stuff.
I don’t know whether the statement was true, but I hope it wasn’t. You don’t need to spend all that to have a good kids’ party.
Oof you weren’t growing up in Connecticut… Everything had to be event and everything had to be 200% better than the last kid’s party
Edit: I’m also the kid that invited 2-3 people to my birthdays because people suck
I hear this all the time but nearly every birthday party my kids have been invited to has just been at someone’s home.
Problem is parents are assholes. They weren’t self aware enough if to realize the damage they were doing and just pass it on. And even worse the people that need to see those messages the most never will.
Worse, some take a weird kind of pride in being a bad parent. “my mother was worse”, “my father would beat me for that”, “I survived worse”, “be happy I don’t do…”, pretty sure everyone heard such things before.
Maybe those two kids are the assholes and the OP is realising raising their children this way results in low birthday party attendance.
I won’t assert that things are the same as they were decades ago, but in my experience, the teachers/staff are complicit. Either actively or passively (usually passively).
It is my sincere hope that school faculty is (generally) more proactive in involving parents when bullying is apparent. Something tells me that’s not the case though. And I can’t even fathom what hell social media brings to the table; it must be like Lord of the Flies on there. I recall classrooms and busses when parents/drivers/subs/chaperones weren’t present and it was bad.
Many of them are, but there are some very good, caring educators and other school staff who go out of their way to look out for the kids who need it most.
Here is a made up story about how great my child is.
Eh, it’s true more often then not. This is beyond relatable to a lot of people.
Giant invite the entire class parties typically only have a few kids the birthday kid actually likes or is liked by.
Everyone else is just there for the sugar.
I can’t tell you how many kids’ events I attended growing up just because I was nice to them (read: treated them the same I did anyone else) when others bullied or ignored them. Got a sweet buffet after a bat mitzvah out of it once. Those people knew good food.
“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you just ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, maybe youre the asshole”
I was bullied at school, still had more than 1 person coming to my birthday parties.
I’ll take projection and victim blaming for $100, Alex
lol Yeah, cos kids are NEVER assholes…
This is the best! Gives me hope
