Pass the parcel….

[Itsallaboutme2021]

I’m sorry but what the heck has happened to pass the parcel?
Every child wins a present!!!!
Can’t have anyone disappointed!!!!!

All I’m saying is bring back Luckys dad way-( episode of Bluey) !!!!!!

Honestly I can’t handle this modern day parenting…. And I am one to a 4yr old!

I remember not winning anything in pass the parcel and being upset it’s better everyone gets something than one child getting something big and all the others losing out

Not trying to be controversial but why ?

If everyone buying a lottery ticket just got their stake back there would be no point.... Sometimes people win and sometimes they don't. It's a life lesson.

It’s not comparable to a lottery ticket. They’re children at a party who all came there to have fun and a nice time. They learn they don’t have the same opportunities as others in other ways

Things are a bigger deal to children. As an adult you have more control, children don’t have that

I got a glittery gold nail varnish between layers of a pass the parcel somewhere around 1983. Can still remember the glamour of it.
My mum used to put forfeits in ours. " Sing a song", "Pat your head and rub your tummy,".

You were diddled! I never played pass the parcel in the 80’s without sweets in each layer!

Ahh when I was little there was only one prize, with multiple wrapping layers. It was fun enough to unwrap a layer and wonder if it was the last one. There was also no fixing of the winner, it was just good luck to get the prize. Basic level fun and excitement.
A prize in every layer? Pah.

In 1982? We got a Fruit Salad chewy sweet. That's if it wasn't lost by being flung across the room due to frenzied unwrapping!

My favourite was Dead Fishes. I was never much of a party goer, used to love the lay down and nap.

I think that game is really cruel

Hahaha came to say sorry, but who are you, Lucky's dad? 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤣🤣

Character building...

You wouldn't like musical chairs then. Injuries and scraps galore 😂 Sorry, 70s child.

Oops sorry @TheLimeQuail clearly soul destroying.

I'm all for hardening kids up, but what's wrong with a little bit of fun at a party (as long as its something small in the layers). Life is full of disappointments, let them be happy! 🙂

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I'm a 70s child/80s teenager.

I played pass the parcel at loads of parties and there was only ever one present in the final layer.

I thought it was weird when I started taking my own daughter to parties and parents had put sweets between the layers. Putting proper prizes between the layers takes it to a whole other level.

You'd always get one though, that would have to dig deep and try and rip off 5 layers to get to the prize. Also the one that would cling on to it for dear life on case the music magically stopped.
I suspect nothing has changed.

I had fun, I had a nice time, I didn’t need a prize every time.

I accept times have changed but I struggle to understand why this needed to change.

Maybe you wouldn’t be such a grumpy grape if you had

Lol - makes the absolute bunfight over pass the parcel in the 1980s look positively medieval lol! There was NEVER a "wrapper" gift back then...other than one mum who would put a single sweet in each wrapper. I do recall one time at one of my birthday parties my dad sneaking a look before stopping the music because he didn't want a little snot who had been causing havoc all afternoon (no, not me lol!) to get the prize - and of course the "rule" was that the birthday girl/boy shouldn't really get the prize either (not that I knew this when I was 5 of course).

But this "everyone gets the same thing" stuff is boring. As is parents trying to one-up each other with more and more ostentatious birthday parties. Hire a church hall, make some sandwiches and party food, play some games (pass the parcel, musical chairs, pin the tail on the donkey, musical statues, pass the balloon, simon says, what's the time mr wolf etc etc etc. Spending a load of money is absurd. And also I always had an awesome time...in fact now I think about it I might have a retro party just for shits and giggles for my pals!

Seriously, I think times and people were more simple/naïve back in the 1950 – 1960s. Nobody tried to rip 5 layers off or hang on until the music stopped. I guess things have changed gradually but I’m sad they have done in this way.

If I had what ? I said, I had a nice time and had fun. Why have things changed ? Why does everyone have to ‘win’ ?

Are you incapable of understand things from someone else’s perspective. You might not have been bothered if you didn’t get anything. Other kids do mind

I'm nearly 60 and certainly when I was a kid it was common for there to be something in between some of the layers but I'm talking things like a single wrapped sweet rather than an actual prize. Some people put them in every layer, others alternate layers or, in my opinion the best way, randomly distributed so you didn't know if there would be anything or not. There definitely had to be different coloured paper as you got to the main prize, preferably several layers so that everyone was fooled into thinking the prize had been won at least a few times before it actually was. Or a good trick was to have a box towards the end which when opened just revealed a smaller parcel. And absolutely no watching to ensure particular people won things.

I'm a 70s child. I was remembering my childhood.

Maybe that's when it all started kicking off 🤣

Actually, I am thinking back and the most exciting (80s PTP) was when there were sweets in some of the layers, but not every one. That way you had the excitement of 'have I won the prize', but also the added excitement of 'is there a sweetie or not'. The flying saucers were popular (among parents, not kids) because they were sort of dry and not easily squashable. And you sometimes also got one of those jointed plastic snake toys as well.

I've been to some kids' parties more recently where there are sweets between every layer, but it's incredibly boring because they're all the same sweets (identical packet of haribo).