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Posted By lenseview 1 year, 7 months ago in FamilyAuthor's entertaining (& frustrating) experience with over the top birthdays. Some kids still have simple birthday parties, right? But how did we get to where some (many) kids today get parties whose extravagance seems to exceed most State Dinners? Values are warped, social pressures nutty.Whatever happened to pin the tail on the donkey?!
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lenseview1 year, 7 months ago
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Friend of mine lives in a town where all the parents in his kid's class seem to compete to see who can have the "best" party for their kids. It's not a particularly wealthy town (people are doing fine but aren't rich), yet so many give their kids these over the top parties. He says they don't even really want to do it but they want to "fit in" (whatever that means), they feel some kind of conformist social pressure. They also they want to appear like they have plenty of money, at least as much as all the neighbors. It's nuts.
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Jenhahaha1 year, 7 months ago
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It is seriously getting over the top! If you have a small petting zoo come to your house for your little kid's birthday, either the next year's party will be a disappointment or have to be even bigger. Something else is the goodie bags. It seems that every kid gets a "going away gift" just for being at the birthday party.
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moxxxxxxxxxx1 year, 7 months ago
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The article identified the problem "the nouveau riche." New money means frivolous, lack of restraint, superficial.
Old money means frugal, disciplined, puposeful.
Which is why old money is old and new money comes and goes.
We need to prepare ourselves for the effects "new money" is having on the children. We are going to end up with a generation of people who think they deserve what ever they desire. A selfish generation taht will take more than they give.
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