http://kidamnesiac.okcomputer.org/2010/09/20/the-no-giftsgifts-birthday-party/ Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit... Thu, 18 Feb 2016 12:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 http://kidamnesiac.okcomputer.org/2010/09/20/the-no-giftsgifts-birthday-party/comment-page-1/#comment-401 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:29:36 +0000 http://kidamnesiac.okcomputer.org/?p=1881#comment-401 I agree with Beth’s method and it works in our family.
We actually do it before birthdays and Christmas, so it is not so much a one-for-one.
And you are giving Simon a chance to be generous, to do something special for “kids who don’t have as many wonderful friends as he does”. After one year, we stopped saying “for the poor children.”

]]> http://kidamnesiac.okcomputer.org/2010/09/20/the-no-giftsgifts-birthday-party/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:11:53 +0000 http://kidamnesiac.okcomputer.org/?p=1881#comment-400 I agree. I tried the no presents party once and everyone ingnored me anyway. We have a new rule. For every present you get, you pick one of your old toys to donate or sell at a yard sale. It hasn’t been fool proof but it’s a start… Good luck with that!

]]> http://kidamnesiac.okcomputer.org/2010/09/20/the-no-giftsgifts-birthday-party/comment-page-1/#comment-399 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:17:38 +0000 http://kidamnesiac.okcomputer.org/?p=1881#comment-399 My .02, let him have the presents. You can always “recycle” some of the older–or newer–ones he doesn’t use/like/play with. You only get to be 4 once.

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