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mommylove's picture

I'm just curious as to what age people typically stop having birthday parties for their children? I never had any growing up (different story I won't bore you with) so I am very clueless on this. My BS will be 6 next week and I am planning a birthday party for him for the following Saturday on 7/10. As I mentioned in a previous post I don't "do" parties at my home, so in researching the location this year I found a lot of interesting ideas that could keep his parties fresh, different and fun for years to come! I was just wondering if there was some point at which he won't want mommy to plan birthday parties for him anymore? Just curious. Thanks!

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herewegoagain's picture

I guess it depends on the family dynamics, wether your parents like your friends, wether you like your paren't friends & neighbors, how you were raised...

My DH never had a bday party...I always had bday parties...my parents had parties for me until I was 17-18...and even after that they bought me at least a cake and had some friends over...even two yrs ago when I turned 40 and had just moved closer to them. Then again I have always been around their friends, like most of them and they like most of mine...at around 16 it was no longer a huge party w/my friends as much as a party w/their friends and their kids whom I liked and still talk to many of them.

Pantera's picture

My parties stopped at age 10 or 11, then we just had family parties. I had one last party at age 13 (for my friends) and after that my parents, were done, lol.

JustAnotherSM's picture

My bioson is 4 and we did not have a party for him this year. But we did have cake with the grandparents to honor his special day. DH and I decided to start backing away from the bday parties early so that the kids wouldn't have expectations of big parties and lots of presents every year. We did this because we saw what happened with SS and how he always expected a ridiculous amount of presents from both families for every celebration. We want to set precedence now so there are no hurt feelings as the biokids get older.

mommylove's picture

For some reason I had 10 in my head - at least for the highly organized (& expensive) parties, & it sounds like that's pretty common. I guess we'll see. Thanks for the feedback!

I am confused's picture

I threw myself a $5,000 birthday party for 10 of us on my 39th. Screw it. It was the best 5 grand I've ever spent. It was a once in a lifetime experience for all of us who were there. Two waiters, a sommelier, and the manager all in our private room. You have to do that shit sometimes.

Birthdays are for celebrating. On my 40th I flew in 4 bottles of 1967 Bordeaux (the year I was born) and had commemorative cups and t-shirts made for everyone that said "I drank a 1967 Bordeaux from a plastic cup for Jr.'s 40th birthday."

Birthdays are cool. It doesn't matter how old you are.