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 ...

My 4-year-old and I attended a birthday party for her classmate recently. The parents hosted about 15 kids at a new indoor play place and fed everyone pizza, cake, and juice boxes. At the end of ...

We skipped throwing a big party and decided to celebrate our child's birthday with a family trip to the beach. She loved the ...

To introduce you to all the ways you can put together party favors, ahead you'll find the best kids' goodie bag ideas worth considering for your little one's bash. And hey, whichever you don't ...

The parent, who has a five-year-old, took to Reddit’s r/Parenting community to vent: “Please, for the love of god, stop the birthday party goody bag madness.”. They revealed they’d been ...

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 recent survey of 2,000 parents with kids ages 3-12 found 73% say their youngsters are not so easy to impress. Shutterstock A new year of birthday planning is fast approaching — but some ...

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.

A couple of years ago, my kids (then ages 9, 6, and 4) started coming home from birthday celebrations and other events with goodie bags. You may be familiar with them too—Mary Poppins–esque ...

It's normal to give out goodie bags at a kid's birthday party, but it's teaching some kids to be selfish. I don't want them to think that gift-giving means you can expect to get something in return.