Those kids will never be satisfied with anything. Nothing will ever be enough, and nothing will ever fill that hole they feel inside themselves. They will want more and more and even when they get it, they will be completely bored and unfilfilled. Way to screw up your kids' lives, people across the creek. Yuck.

Holy hell, do you live next to the Trumps???

I thought it was grand that I got a cake and some pressies on my B-day!

Actually, I still do...

We experience that alot where we live. We make a decent living, live in a nice neighborhood...but all the tennis moms around us have way too much time on our hands. My oldest son just got back from a birthday party where they rented out a theater on a Saturday! And my twins just got back from a party where they rented out an entire game/ pizza place on a Saturday!

My kids wonder why we don't go all out... I love my kids, but there's a line where you do something nice and the line where you do something excessive and gaudy. Whats sad is that my wife has a little trouble breaking into the 'cliques' of tennis moms because we live within our means instead of mortgaging or home for 5 new Mercedes.

Tennis moms or not, we'll keep doing what we do... I think our kids will be a little more well balanced because of it.

Good grief! A bonfire and or dinner out at their choice of restaraunt is it kids.

Never rich enough to have all that for a birthday party. A cake with my parents that's it. I don't recall ever having a b-day party when I was a kid.

I guess some parents think that since they can afford to do such a thing that they should just do it, with the reasoning that the kid is going to be a kid for only so long.

Those kids will never be satisfied with anything. Nothing will ever be enough

Exactly.  Every other party they go to after this where they have to get their own food (horrors!) and there's not a freakin' petting zoo will seem lame and insignificant.  I'm womdering what they're going to do next year to top this....

Holy hell, do you live next to the Trumps???

No, a Major with a trophy wife who has nothing better to do with her time than swan around in her Escalade and shop.

 

I love my kids, but there's a line where you do something nice and the line where you do something excessive and gaudy.

'Nice' to me is taking my kids and their friends out for pizza, a couple of games of laser tag and a movie.  They seem to be satisfied with that as well....

Good grief!

My response was a little more profane than that, but the sentiment is the same!!!

guess some parents think that since they can afford to do such a thing that they should just do it, with the reasoning that the kid is going to be a kid for only so long.

I totally understand that, but.....if you want to raise well rounded, well adjusted kids who can relate to everyone they meet and aren't too materialistic....that's not the way to do it.

A llama?? I'm not sure excessive is the word...crazy might be more apt?

Dyl xx

Hmmmm...sounds like a classic case of parents over-compensating for an inability to express (feel?) LOVE.

How do you suppose they'll top that next year???

llama?? I'm not sure excessive is the word...crazy might be more apt?

Yeah, that's what I said too......and all that poo to clean up afterwards!

Hmmmm...sounds like a classic case of parents over-compensating for an inability to express (feel?) LOVE.

You miht be onto something there.....

In addition to making their kids hopelessly spoiled, they are failing to teach their kids a very important lesson: Just because we CAN does not mean we SHOULD.

Well I just think we don't even know the circumstances and why they hold such an extravagant party over there, that we shouldn't automatically jump to the conclusion that they are spoiling the kids. Who knows maybe the kid has cancer and that's the last party he or she will ever have...?

If I'm out of point, I apologise.

Who knows maybe the kid has cancer and that's the last party he or she will ever have...?

He doesn't.  He goes to the same school as my children, and rides the same bus as them.   I see him at the bus-stop in the morning....and he's not exactly the best-behaved child in the world.

Apology not necessary....

Not like this one. They had a inflatable bouncy castle, a trampoline, a clown, a magician, a caterer, wait staff to hand out drinks and food, 2 ponies, a donkey and a llama.

Makes me think of the kids party in Old School! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Makes me think of the kids party in Old School!

It was surreal, let me tell ya...

...and it's still going!!!!  The livestock has departed, but there's still drinking and music and hollering and all the crap going on.

I'm going to give it an hour, by which time I will be settling into my bed to watch TV....and if it's still going, I'm calling the cops (D's working tonight, so he can attest that it's been going since 1300) to have them go over there and ask the guilty partiers to keep it down.  I don't give a fuck what rank he is or how much money they spent on their party, enough is enough...

All I have to say is, you are doing a good job. Kids don't need to see their parents providing outragous parties and gifts to show up the neighbors and mortgaging thier house for unnessicary items. Your kids will be more well-rounded, balanced and fiscally responsible if you teach them NOW that you shouldn't waste money or live to excess.