NEW YORK — Anya Roles, 34, a Manhattan mother of three girls under the age of 5, has seen a range of gifts at children’s birthday parties over the years: personalized lunchboxes and pricey ...

I used to spend so much time and money making goody bags for my child's birthday parties. Here's why I decided to stop handing them out—and why you should too.

My son is about to turn 4, and we're planning the festivities. I've ranted about absurd kids' birthday parties before, so we'll be keeping this party low-key: a few of his little buddies, some ...

Goodie bags, the fun finale to a kids’ birthday party, are good by definition, but some are better than others. A great goodie bag can guarantee you end a birthday party on a high note and guests ...

Birthday party goodie bags don't have to be sacks of candy filled with cheap junk — it's a waste of money and no parent on the receiving end wants to add flimsy plastic to their kids' collection.

If you go to 15 birthday parties a year and come home with goody bags 15 times, of course you are going to assume that “birthday party = goody bag.” The problem here is that my kids now ...

Because kids are used to getting junk in a bag, they’ve come to expect it. More than once, a child attending one of my kids’ parties has asked where their goody bag is long before the party ...

A mother has been left “fuming” after a parent returned a goody bag given to their child at her daughter’s birthday party, stating that the contents were “too generous”.

Once again my son's birthday has rolled around. Next weekend he'll be seven, and he's eagerly anticipating meeting classmates at a roller rink to celebrate. And just as with every kid's birthday ...

I used to spend so much time and money making goody bags for my child's birthday parties. Here's why I decided to stop handing them out—and why you should too. If every party has a pooper, I ...

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