How many presents do you buy your kid for their birthday?

For birthdays, I have never given my children more than 1 or 2 gifts. They usually get one relatively big gift (big as in much money) and one smaller gift. For example, this past birthday my 11 year old got a Spongebob blanket. I know it's a toddler blanket but she is a big Spongebob fan and it was cheap. And then we bought her a new bike. That was it. We had her sister give her a bicycle lock. I see no reason to give my child a whole bunch of gifts for their birthday. The only reason they get bunches of gifts for Christmas is because there have to be gifts from parents and gifts from Santa. I don't spoil my kids by piling the gifts on them. They get enough throughout the year with us paying for their participation in sports activities. If they want more then they need to learn to save their money to buy for themselves.

i'm the same way so don't feel guilty. i always buy too many for my daughter, but then i realized that i did over do it. so i try to buy one or two particular thing she wants or likes..in the long run your freidns and family help fill the present table.

I just have one child and I don't want to spoil him. He is three years old. I usually give him only one birthday present and it won't be a very expensive gift. Perhaps it is something useful, such as books.

Yes, it all depends upon the family income and a lot upon what you would feel is wanted by your child too, how much you feel you should or want to give as well. For me persoanlly i feel, more than the number of gifts, , we should give them just 1-2 things, more so the ones they really do need as they would value them much more , than give them too many things, which they just see or use once and then dont care for them and they keep lying as waste, and get spoilt. Kids are small so they dont know their value, its we parents only that count and add up and think ok, we have spent so much on gifts, so even if your gifts are small, and dont cost much, its ok for the kids, give them what they need and value more i think. I have been doing this for years now, and when our financial condition was not that good, we never brought them expensive gifts, nor did they ask for nor mind it , as they were not exposed to lavish gifts ever, even when grandparents or people ask what to gift them, we say the same, whatever they require most is included in the list. And now that they are growing, we gift them just one good thing instead, that they need instead of 2-3-4 gifts like earlier. And its something hat they have wanted for long and have kept on waiting for , for a long time.

yes i spend 50-00 us $ on them every eyar for him and 50 us$ for the new clothes.other give gifts only when invited ora strict nono ffrom them.very small gifts.most of them my average poor earning so small gifts only.

I only buy birthday gifts for my 4 year old. I give my 15 and 11 year olds a set amount of money and then I let them buy what they want. Sometimes they decide to save it and add to it from allowances or other gifts if they want something that is more expensive.

my baby would be having his first birthday this november and i have a whole line of gifts im planning to buy him. aside from the party which whould cost me more than haft of my months salary, i also want to buy him new clothes, milk bottles, and toys. im also planning to deposit some on his own account. i had a very simple childhoo and like a lot of moms i want my son to have a bit more than what i had and expereinced. but of course i also had to be easy coz i dont want him growing up to be a brat.

For birthdays we keep it simple. Two of my kids were born just after Christmas, so basically no money! They get one gift each, but as they have gotten older the gifts are more expensive! Also a resturant lunch and an family party with a DVD. I'm in Japan where birthdays aren't really celerbrated. Also the kids birthdays all seem to be on strange days, two just after Christmas, one on a national holiday and the other on the Obon holiday, which is a time for families to get together. Also I am trying to do things on their birthdays, we go bowling or skating or some other family thing we can do together. I have found that the kids don't remember what they got at each birthday but they do remember the things we did and I feel that giving memories is a lot more important.

For birthdays we just give one big gift. Something they've been really wanting. We have five kids though so that helps keep things even and fair. If we only had one or two we'd probably be more indulgent.

Last month was my daughter third birthday. Me and my husband gave her about five different gifts for her. She was very happy at that time,and she said to me that she wanted to have her birthday every day so she can get present every day too. It was so funny when I heard that.

I usually buy my kids (4 to be exact) about 4-5 presents each. I spend at least $500 on thier presents (seeing that one is 19, another 18, another 15, and another one 14), so they want really expensive stuff.