To be foaming about kids’ Christmas party?

[O6bftdff]

I took my four year old nephew to a Christmas party yesterday at the golf club. It was really well done. They’d hired a soft play section, had Santa, balloons, drawing, a little buffet. Really good.

But then they had the party games and I’m still a bit annoyed about it (and yes, I know they’re children). First up was pass the parcel. I sat behind DN when he joined the ‘big kids’ circle (there was a separate one for the babies) and off we went. The same girl, about six or seven, kept getting the parcel handed to her and just sitting with it and staring straight ahead. She was next to a small boy of maybe three who wasn’t old enough to understand to take it. It only moved when the other older kids started shouting at her to pass it. She won three times.

Then we play corners and obviously the kids who are in whichever corner is called go out of the game. Some kids who kept going out kept just rejoining, and of course one of them won.

Pass the parcel again and this time all the babies and older children in one big circle with two parcels circulating. Im next to DN again and a woman to our left has maybe a one year old on her knee. The cheating girl is to her left. Once again the cheating girl just sits with the parcel and the woman with the baby is too talking to a friend behind her that the girl sits with the parcel and wins another two times. Meanwhile, on the other side of the circle a boy of six or seven just sits with the other parcel until the music stops. The other kids complain he’s cheating to the organiser, who just ignores them.

Finally the music stops on my DN just as he’s going to hand over the parcel, but he still had hold of it. The five year old next to him is with her DM. The girl was ignoring him, the music stopped, and the woman took it from him and said ‘that’s yours, DD’. I didn’t say anything but wish I had. I felt so sorry for him.

I don’t blame the kids, they’re kids, but surely if you’re either taking a child or organising a children’s party you should be making sure your kids aren’t cheating and the cheaters aren’t continuously winning? I know it’s only a game and a kids’ one at that but the blatant rewards for cheating wound me right up.

Had never heard the term but this is what I was expecting. I was surprised when bubbles and candy canes popped up under each layer.

FFS Foaming is just another way of saying fuming.

It is? I've never heard anyone say this. "Foaming at the mouth," yes. But that isn't quite the same thing.

Anyway@O6bftdffI don't blame you for being annoyed. It sounds as though the adults weren't really helping the children play the games properly.

This whole situation would piss me off too but what can you do? You look like an arse if you complain. It’s a life lesson for your child, other people are jerks.

I don't think you should go to any more children parties OP😂

For evil to triumph!!🤣🤣🤣

Years of kids parties has shown me that there seems to be multiple ways of playing pass the parcel.

1. The child with the parcel holds it out to the next person to take . If they aren't paying attention and don't see it that's their fault.
2. The child with the parcel puts it into the lap of the next child and so on.
3. The child with the parcel holds on to it and it's up to the next child to take it out of their hands.

Children rejoining games or winning multiple times annoy me. But the parents/adults in charge need to be proactive.

You’ve witnessed crap parenting and you’ll see plenty more of it in the coming years.

When my kids were younger and had parties one of us would do the music while someone else kept an eye on the parcel being passed round and would nod at the person doing the music to stop when it landed on someone who hadn't had a go yet and I used to wrap a little something in between each layer lol it took bloody ages but i remember the excitement I felt as a kid getting to unwrap it when it landed on me and I want every kid to feel that haha I know I'm a saddo

To be honest it drives me mad when I play games with my adult friends too. Game of charades and they’re suddenly saying ‘yes’ and ‘no’. Pictionary and they’re writing down numbers. Drives me up the wall. Any contesting of this outright cheating and it’s ‘just a game’ and I’ve ‘spoilt it’.

Just play properly for the love of God 😂. I think it might come from being raised in a family of card playing gamblers.

You need to step in and take control! I do it. Other people don't like it but I don't care.

Well, yes. That's how I've always played it too. Clearly others have a different opinion.

I will definitely avoid it!

Also I thought the ‘rule’ with Pass the Parcel is that if the music stops on someone who’s already had a turn, they carry on passing until it reaches a child who hasn’t unwrapped a layer yet. Not one child getting 5 sweets whilst some have none!

I'm with you OP and I would have actually said something and said no it isn't hers it's DNs especially with all that going on. But who was organising the games because the parents are often worse than the kids and the organiser should have kept the games going properly

Sounds like Christmas Day at our house. Murder was nearly committed during a game of Cluedo last year!

It’s now banned.

You just sat there and stared while the mother took your nephew's present. What lesson did that teach him?

Not the kids fault, but again lazy parenting at fault. The organisers should be organising the games to run smoothly, and parents should be parenting.

The child was not paying attention. They weren’t the cheaters.

😂😂 We played monopoly on holiday once which ended in my mother turning a table over and going to bed because my sister and I went into an alliance not to charge each other rent. In hindsight I see her point.

Who said anything about the child? You address the mother who you say took the present:

The girl was ignoring him, the music stopped, and the woman took it from him and said ‘that’s yours, DD’.

Incredibly normal in the North East. Usually
"Eee man, a was propa foamin!"