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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

For her daughter’s first birthday party at a bright indoor playspace, Melanie Okadigwe asked guests to pass on the piles of presents. “We just have a lot of stuff,” says the school learning specialist ...

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 ...