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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 ...

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

A birthday party without presents? Here's how one mom pulled it off. (Photo illustration: Liliana Penagos for Yahoo) I thought designing the invitation for my daughter’s first birthday would be easy.

DEAR AMY: I have been to a few kids’ birthday parties recently and have noticed not just the birthday child, but also their siblings are getting gifts, “So they don’t feel left out.” Isn’t a birthday ...

When it comes to kids’ birthday parties, you’d think there were only so many ways to reinvent the wheel. But one parent has well and truly said ‘hold my piñata.’ She’s ditching the party altogether… ...

The author always wrote thank-you notes as a child, and is making her kids (not pictured) do the same.Peter Dazeley/Getty Images I grew up being told the importance of writing thank-you notes. My ...

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