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Present Face: When You Can’t Say You Don’t Like Your Gift
It’s easy to tell when your kids don’t like a gift. Three-year-olds just don’t have the grace to tell grandma they’d rather have a Transformer than yet another pair of pyjamas. They just throw it across the room, and then go and pout behind the Christmas tree (unless you’ve managed to teach them some manners by then). But at som...
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Kindergartner Gets Best Birthday Present EVER
I pride myself on being a pretty good gift giver - at least when it comes to my kid. But I can't top Casey Hurles. The Army specialist came home from Iraq, then let his family wrap him in a box and cart him to son Gabriel's primary school. While Gabriel chowed down on cupcakes with his classmates, Casey sat quietly in the box, waiting. When h...
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Kids + Clothes = Crappy Gift?
There were plenty of rocking gifts at my daughter’s birthday party over the weekend, but some of the best of the bunch were supposed to bore my daughter to tears. At least that’s what my friend’s boyfriend said as she picked out a pair of shorts and two cute tops for the birthday party. You don’t get kids clothes for their birthday, he s...
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Hey Kid, Open Your D*$M Present
Part of being a parent is attending a LOT of kiddie birthday parties. And when I tell you things have changed, I don’t just mean the size of the affairs. When did kids stop opening presents during their parties? Because for the random “no gifts please” party, presents still reign supreme for little kids. But at the bulk of parties I’v...
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The Holiday Dilemma: When Parental Gift-Giving Goes Too Far
It's Easter Monday. Are your kids playing with their Easter presents yet? Easter presents? Yes, some parents really do treat the spring holiday as a time to give gifts that go beyond the standard Easter baskets — including pet rabbits or chicks, which, by the way, typically aren't a good idea.But the live animal issue aside, this raises a ques...
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