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...parent about birthday parties and you'll probably get a sigh and a description of the last party their kid went to - limousine service, a petting zoo or Ferris wheel, and definitely elaborate goody bags - followed by their despair at having to organize their own equally expensive party for their child's birthday...
...Professor William Doherty, a social science professor at the University of Minnesota, aims to make parents' lives easier. Doherty, who, six years ago coined the term "overscheduled kids" and led a movement to have family nights at home, is launching a similar campaign against over-the-top birthday parties...
...website birthdayswithoutpressure.org, hoping that by naming the problem, and giving parents a forum, he can help parents ratchet down the expectations and change the social norms. When Doherty was giving lectures on overscheduling kids, he heard parents grumbling about birthday parties and goody bags. It really touched a nerve after he had his first grandchild. His daughter told him that by the time her son was six months old, people were already asking what the theme of her son's first birthday would...
...then after pizza and a clown, made their own toy dolls, Lego trains and balloon sculptures, all in the span of a couple of hours. "The kids didn't have a chance to take in what they were there for," she says, "which was to celebrate their friend's birthday...
...Katie Couric's Holly Golightly party at Tiffany's. This past Sunday, the CBS news anchor donned a Holly-style frock and long black gloves and threw herself a 50th birthday party at Tiffany's Fifth Avenue flagship store. (Proceeds to the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance...