What is it with children's birthday parties?

Oh my, I have no idea. I have never heard of anything like this. We have birthday parties for the children and all of the attention is focused totally on the children. They have soda's and kool-ade or some other type of child drink and we adults have tea or the same thing as the children have. We either cook out, or have some type of food and play games, the gifts are opened and the cake and ice cream is had. Of course the adults stand around and talk and catch up on things. But they also spend lots of time with the children. We all do...we all pitch in and a good time is had by all that attend and a full day is made of it.

Tell me about it .. that's why I dislike parties .. too much of a hassle .. the unity in diversity thing simply doesn't work here. I would always arrive late in parties before .. especially when there are kids. Too much of a stress. Not that I don't like kids but all the hoopla simply makes me go mad .. and the demands of the different adults .. haha .. too beckoning. But it would be great to have some quiet time together..but then that's not called a party. So I can empathize with you in this scenario. The rule is simple. Where there are kids , there cannot be any booze. Where there are no kids , there cannot be booze too , hehe ..too much stress. When everyone's drunk , they'll blabber nonsense and fights may occur where in actual fact , the sole intention was to have a great outdoor party or indoor party together. Just keep it simple .. cakes, kids the parents .. and some food and no booze. It's the kid's 3rd birthday anyway ..

Gee I have never been to a childrens party with a lot of adults there, it is usually just kids, kids and more kids. I love kids parties because they always have the typw of food I like...Fairy Bread, I love fairy bread.

I've never been to a kids' party where there is boozing. I know of some parents who invite most of their adult friends for their child's birthday (especially the first one) and there are no games. But it's a normal party where they get together. No booze....maybe no kiddy snacks either but it's a clean party. We usually celebrate my kids' birthdays with a bunch of their close friends or a theme party (I must have done around 4 in the past 10 years!) where other kids who are not very close to my boys are also invited.

oh ok with what you have described that is not a childrens party for one in children's party there are more children that adults plus no booze! hahaha i have three kids and usually when i give them parties, its usually more cakes, more balloons, more spaghetti, more games..than booze. At times there are booze for us adults but lesser of course.

yes it is correct most of the parents will take chance of having drink in there children BD parties,and there is no chance for that child to have there friends,but it is not correct,the child should invite there friends in school to his/her birthday party,the parents have no time to invite there child friends right.you can invite them in the school.

Elic I really do not know what the Idea of it is and it gets more and more that way My Ex Husband would have invited all his Friends if I would have let him to the Kids Birthday Parties instead he went out Parents forget that they are suppose to set an example and that is not a very good example and that is why Children turn the way they do today

that I dont understand the parties are for the kids and heer the kids play and have a great time thegrown up usually talkfor this is only times hey get together!

I've been to too many kids parties where I WISH I'd have had a drink. All that noise & activity can rattle anybodies nerves.

Sounds like the great Aussie dream for young adult...YaY! Partay...let's get pissed.

I've been to a couple of kids birthday parties that were something like that. Mostly in the summertime when they were held outside like a barbecue. Only in the ones that I've been to there were a ton of kids too. So what it amounted to was a lot of drunk adults with kids just running all over and no one really paying a lot of attention to them. Not a good combination really and you have to wonder who is going to be driving all these kids home. Sorry I have no good explanation for you but I do know it happens.

well, i wonder why they don't do it in their own birthday's party. i won't do that cause it could make my kids imitate what i had done. he could start to drink when his age only 3..

My SIL and BIL are the same way. A few of us in the family feel that she is aways looking for an excuse for a party. It has nothing to do with wanting to have child's b-day party, but has all to do with drinking. Whether these people have a drinking problem or not.....booze seems to be there number 1 priority.....the same problem with my SIL. I feel like you do, if it's a kids b-day-it's a kids b-day and there should ne no drinking at it.

I think it is disgusting. At the end of the day, a kid's party is supposed to make THEM feel special and celebrated, not watching their parents getting drunk. My parents used to invite my entire school class to my birthday party. There would often be about 20 kids that came along. My parents NEVER would drink. Instead, they made a big buffet, with lots of things kids like like jelly and icecream. We played pass the parcel, farmer's in the den and other things that little kids should play. My mum always made me wear my most prettiest satin party dress, so I looked like I was going to a ball, and she would plait my hair when it was damp the night before, so that it would be curly for my party. I have never known anyone, not a single other person whose parents threw parties like this. All the people who used to come to my parties when I was a kid, still always remember them now, even if I havnt seen them in years and they dont remember anything else about me lol.

I think that the adults believe that children are not worth being around unless they, the adults, are anesthetized. The adults do not realize that there are some really cool things that come from listening to children and observing them.

I really don't know either because children's party or kids party now is becoming out of its essence. The party is no longer for the kids rather for their parents chance to party.

We used to call people like that "trash" and avoided them. They were usually from "the wrong side of the tracks" and we felt sorry for their kids.

Okay now that's just all-out weird... Maggiepie “The penalty good men pay for not being interested in politics, is to be governed by men worse than themselves.” ~ Plato, 350 B.C.

I don't know about that. I have always done non drinking b-day parties for my kids. Now my b-days here and there might be a different story but for the kids..it's always been strictly for them.

Maybe parents want the son to enjoy the atmosphere, whatever it is. Booze of course is necessary if there are lots of adults. If you want to celebrate the children's birthday, you can't have adults get together. What can they do at the table?