To think if you let your child win pass the parcel at their own birthday party it tells me everything I need to know about you.

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Well, am I?

I mean, come on.

What do you mean? Did they fix the game for them to win?

YANBU.

Get the police involved

YANBU. Who does that

Ltb.
Lose the bitch...

if its fixed yanbu.

Depends on the circumstances. My niece is autistic and one of the things she struggles with is competition and losing. From the outside it makes her look like a spoilt brat as my sister did let her win pass the parcel when she was a lot younger as she would have had a huge meltdown. She only ever had one party like that as it became too unmanageable. But you never know what is actually going on inside that child/family so it’s easy to judge without knowing the facts.

As in rigged the game so their child won, or as in their child won and they didn't make the child give the prize to someone else?

All kids parties I've been to there is enough gifts between each layer for every child to win something and the birthday child wins the last one.

Yup. Everyone got to open a layer including birthday boy.... last layer which any sane parent turns around for OR chooses the one of their kids friends they like the most, was instead deliberately given to birthday boy 🙄

I have a memory of this exact thing happening. At the first birthday party I was invited to I open the last wrapping and the parents noticed and grabbed it off me and gave it to the birthday girl. Fixed

@Prestoli I’ve logged it.

@Nyancat WTF? I would have to move.

I thought the birthday person always won/

I couldn’t get too worked up about this tbh.

I agree. It happened at the first birthday party DS attended. I felt uncomfortable: the birthday boy already had piles of presents and it entirely defeated the purpose of the game.

I have a memory of this exact thing happening. At the first birthday party I was invited to I open the last wrapping and the parents noticed and grabbed it off me and gave it to the birthday girl. Fixed

Similar happened at one of the first parties I took my eldest DS to when he was in reception. That mother was judged with eyebrows alone by 26 other parents.

Yanbu. It's bad form to rig it in favour of the birthday child.

My mum done the total opposite at my 8th or 9th birthday party! There was a prize for everyone EXCEPT me . Why she thought this was a good idea is beyond me but it resulted in a massive tantrum from me I was a spoiled brat except from on this occasion

I fixed it at my DDs bday so that everyone won, including DD. Only 6 kids so just had 6 parcels. I thought it was always fixed?!

I used to make sure that DD did not win pass the parcel.

What does that say about me?

I always thought the birthday child gets the prize but I’ve learned over the years that this is not the done thing.

@Nyancat That's how it was always done when I was young. So when I did it for my first child's party I didn't know it was bad.

It's 'fixed' so that everyone gets something along the way, but you are soooo NBU.

I brief the DC beforehand - remember you won't win the final prize, it'll be one of your friends.

I've never been to a party where someone with so little cop on has awarded the prize to their own DC.

My DD won at a birthday party recently, she’s only 2 so didn’t understand not to keep passing it when the music stopped, so it got passed to the next kid who was 5, even though the music had very clearly stopped on her and she was the only one not to have removed a layer, and his parents didn’t make him pass it back, my face was