Scenario: birthday party with balloons, punch balls, decorations out in the local community centre.
Enter loads of kids ready to party and their mums ready to have a headache!
Certain ones of said kids start going round picking up balloons & punchballs and giving them to their mums to "save" so that they can take them home. Mums then say OK, and put the balloons, punchballs etc. by their seats to take home. This is 15 minutes into a 2-hour party!!!
30 minutes in and the kids are then dismantling some of the hanging decorations to play games with - some of those also get brought over to be "saved".
This happened at a party I went to winds me up soooooo much! Why can't the kids just play with the stuff and leave it alone? And why don't the mums just say "no I'm not saving this, it's for everyone to play with, don't be selfish".
It's our daughters' party tomorrow and all the balloons we put up are going to be fastened to the wall so we don't have this problem!!
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to get cross when kids arrive at birthday partys and then go round trying to "save" things to take home?
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kaphc · 24/01/2009 23:41
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