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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 174230" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Janet, I'm sorry that your trip is turning into such an ordeal for you and for Keyana. Jamie's wife does sound like she's "a few fries short ...". She doesn't think things through at all, does she? No two year old would understand that, seeing another child being lavished with new toys and cake and all that attention and them not. I have a great-nephew that same age and I know he wouldn't understand either and would have reacted the same way Keyana did. At that age they probably don't even know what a "birthday" is, they just see presents and new toys and cake!</p><p> </p><p>I have a brother a few years older than I am, and another brother a few years younger. When we were kids and one of us had a birthday, our mother would get a small gift for the other two also so we had something to open up too. When I grew up, I though this was kind of a dumb idea and vowed not to do it with my own kids, but I've re-thought it now. The little ones just <em>don't</em> understand and can't be expected to. I never had to make that decision with my kid because they ended up five years apart. By the time my son had his first birthday my daughter had just turned six and she was in her "little mother" stage. My daughters birthday is eleven days before her brothers, and when they got a little older, <u>HE</u> was the one complaining! He just couldn't understand why, even just once, <em>his</em> birthday couldn't come first before <em>hers</em>! Not fair!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 174230, member: 1883"] Janet, I'm sorry that your trip is turning into such an ordeal for you and for Keyana. Jamie's wife does sound like she's "a few fries short ...". She doesn't think things through at all, does she? No two year old would understand that, seeing another child being lavished with new toys and cake and all that attention and them not. I have a great-nephew that same age and I know he wouldn't understand either and would have reacted the same way Keyana did. At that age they probably don't even know what a "birthday" is, they just see presents and new toys and cake! I have a brother a few years older than I am, and another brother a few years younger. When we were kids and one of us had a birthday, our mother would get a small gift for the other two also so we had something to open up too. When I grew up, I though this was kind of a dumb idea and vowed not to do it with my own kids, but I've re-thought it now. The little ones just [I]don't[/I] understand and can't be expected to. I never had to make that decision with my kid because they ended up five years apart. By the time my son had his first birthday my daughter had just turned six and she was in her "little mother" stage. My daughters birthday is eleven days before her brothers, and when they got a little older, [U]HE[/U] was the one complaining! He just couldn't understand why, even just once, [I]his[/I] birthday couldn't come first before [I]hers[/I]! Not fair! [/QUOTE]
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