Why have
birthday parties gotten out of control?
- We live in a supersizing consumer culture:
more, bigger, splashier.
- Today’s parents have high expectations of
themselves and want to make every activity enriching for their
children.
- Some parents are competitive and keep
raising the bar for birthday parties in their communities.
- Other parents are afraid that their
child’s party will fall below that bar, and therefore do more
than they really want to.
- Today’s “time squeeze” leads to
outsourcing birthday parties and spending more than at home.
- Smaller families allow for more spending
on each child’s birthday.
- Some parents may be compensating for their
guilt over being too busy and overscheduled.
- A lot parents nowadays want their
children’s approval and have trouble setting limits and saying
“no.”
- Birthday parties are a new profit area in
a “more and better” business environment.
- The “Martha Stewart Syndrome”: make it
wonderful, and from scratch.
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