Divorce

» Jojo - I'll level with you.

I'll level with you. I am a single parent but have 1 18-year-old girl, a 4-year-old girl, and am now expecting a boy in April. So my experience with boys other than those babysat and my little brothers is minimal.

However, my mother had great birthday plans for my younger brothers, the youngest of whom just now has turned 20. Needless to say, they throw their own parties now, but they always enjoyed my mothers efforts. She would get all the parents to drop the kids off at the beach, the lake, a soccer feild or the bird sanctuary -- somewhere outdoors. She would provide as many metre-long subway sandwiches as necessary. The kids would run around like the yard apes they were.

My mother was a single mother also. Talk about a resourceful person! But our expectations did not include what other children got, and that is a very important part of single parenting. I try to make my kids focus on the prize and not the route there. The fact is, the birthday party will be fun, no matter what it includes. Is this a realistic attitude?

-- posted by Jojo

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» Maureen Fleury - Party Ideas

I'm thinking back to when my boys were young. The things that they enjoyed, I see are nose wrinkles and eye rolls now.

One of their friends did a one hour rental of laser tag then went to a fast food place to eat afterwards.

We had a party at a place that had all these tubes and ball pits. The kids crawled through and chased each other or played hide and seek. That's good for about an hour. The facility also had a party room.

One of the local sporting goods store had an area where the kids could use the trampoline, use plastic bows & arrows (supervised by their staff), shoot plastic golf balls.

Arcades are few and far between but I notice a new generation of arcade where they use a lot of virtual reality stuff like soccer goalie, archery, golf.

Hope this helps.

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» freerose - here's a thought

If you are having that number of boys and you feel compelled to have a pool party with that age group my suggestion is to invite a few parents to come along. Talk to the mom's and dad's request dads help in the locker room. Swimming is fun for the whole family and the only issue would be that the parents would need to pay for their own admission. There may be other siblings that want to come along so you may or may not like that but it could turn out to be a blast! Just a thought...

-- posted by freerose

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» michigander873 - here's a thought

In response to here's a thought posted by freerose:

Thanks for all the suggestions. We have compromised and are going to go bumper bowling. My mom didn't like the idea of a pool party either...sooo, always listen to your mother, right? Even when you are in your 30's.

-- posted by michigander873

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» my3guys - Hi Tina, I have a website -- www.

Hi Tina, I have a website -- www.momsofboys.org that you might be interested in. Can't find on here any other way to contact you. Please check out the site, links, and message board.
Thanks,
Sharon

-- posted by my3guys

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