Few things make parents more frantic than looking at the calendar and seeing a kid’s birthday they completely forgot about. How on earth can a busy mom or dad find the perfect present on such short ...

A mom with two upcoming kids’ birthday parties and no extra cash turned to Reddit for help—other parents shared ...

What it is: Six pieces of wooden fruit are pre-cut into slices, which give a satisfying crunch when your pint-size chef starts slicing and dicing. Why we love it: "This toy is as useful for practicing ...

Kids’ birthdays are trying under the best of circumstances. They usually involve some combination of melted ice cream, cloying music, and the screeches of other people’s children. While there might ...

One year, much to my 6-year-old’s dismay, I requested “no gifts” on her birthday party invitation. Why? She still had ...

If you thought baby showers were draining your wallet, just wait until those babies get a little bit older. As any parent can attest, kids’ birthday parties have a tendency to take over the social ...

Remember when a child's birthday party meant cake, ice cream, soda, games, and presents at his house? Today, pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey and cake have been replaced by "a real donkey—and a full BBQ ...

Birthday party season is upon us, which means birthday party invitations from your children’s friends are about to pour in.

The kids don't need more stuff, and their parents don't need more clutter. So why do some of us moms and dads insist on schlepping presents to other children's birthday parties when the invitations ...

After four kids and a decade of motherhood, birthday party invitations rarely surprise me. But I received one recently that did. A friend was throwing a party for her daughter’s special day and at the ...

MANY parents spend hours shopping for Christmas presents for their kids. However, experts have shared exactly how many gifts ...

Like many kids who grew up in the ’80s, I went to a few friends’ and classmates’ birthday parties every year, and they were mostly simple, thrown-together affairs. It was rare to find more than a ...