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Kid's birthday party gift amount

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  • #52
    Hangdogroad
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119887843#Comment_119887843

    Worse than weddings.



  • #53
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119889155#Comment_119889155

    I agree with invitations not being given out at school, but I don't agree with "all the boys" or "all the girls".

    There should be no inclusion or exclusion by gender.

    When my daughter had parties, I invited her school friends, which included boys, but nobody got an invitation just because they happened to be female and in her class. She didn't get invited to everyone in her class' parties either, and didn't batt an eyelid when that happened because there was no expectation to be invited to a party for someone who wasn't someone she played with regularly.



  • #54
    Ms2011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119888043#Comment_119888043

    Honestly I'd be too embarrassed to stick a fiver in a card, I don’t know why, it wouldn't cost me a thought if my kids got a fiver in a card for their birthdays but they never have.



  • #55
    Princess Calla
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119889603#Comment_119889603

    Yeah I do agree with you about the gender....the whole idea of a mixed school is to get them mixing. However it is a very easy way to keep numbers down and "fair" especially in first few years when friendships are very much in the fledgling stages.

    That said parents have a choice to do what they want....I know we've been to parties where not "everyone of the same gender" was invited.... similarly I know there have been parties where we've not been invited....which is a good lesson to learn that they can't/won't be invited to every party. However it's only a couple of parents that have done that so far.



  • #56
    pgj2015
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    it was always just presents when I was younger, way better than money when you think about it. what does a child need money for?

    my brother had a friend and every year on my brothers birthday, the friend would come to the party and say "mam will drop the present in Monday" 😂 The mother is notoriously tight, imagine being so tight she couldn't even buy something in a pound shop for 5 pound. I have met the kid who is grown up now, he is as tight as anything, haggling for everything, pints in a bar, taxi fares, bread at the shop etc

    The mother had loads of money as well as does the son, just 2 miserable to spend any.



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