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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Partay!

Children's parties - enjoyable afternoon or parental competitive event?...discuss

I'm so old that my memory of an ultra sophisticated children's birthday party was being taken to the "Bridge Cafe " at Keele Service Station to eat chips and watch the lights of the cars on the M6 as they passed beneath us...how times have changed!

The AB is now 11 so I'm getting off relativley lightly this year with a get together at the swimming baths followed by chocolate cake and ham rolls. But we have done more in previous years including ; the play barn party, the cowboys and indians disco party, the "it's a girl thing" make up and hairdressing for 9 year olds party, the pyjama party with storyteller, and the try to kill your child's friends at the local ice rink party. All good fun in their way - but you do worry, AB got so many presents when she was 6 that she stuffed a load in her toy cupboard and never opened them!

I don't think there is a good answer - one children's entertainer was so popular round our way that by the end of the "party season" the kids were giving the punch lines of the jokes before he did....at least we never hired him.

2 comments:

Nicholas said...

The best ever kids' party I went to, when I was 10, was when my friend's parents took him and a bunch of his chums to a pop concert at the Golders Green Hippodrome. Top of the bill were The Beatles!

Nicholas

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Frobisher said...

A friend recently hired a stretch limo to take his spoilt offspring and friends to Pizza Hut for the evening!

I had a magician doing tricks with hankies.

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