With 2 year olds? I'd be so pissed if someone dropped their toddler off at a birthday party I'm hosting. With kids a few years older that's normal but not with 2 year olds.
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Beer and alcohol in a kid's birthday party?
- Thread starter FernandoRocker
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Everytime we had a backyard birthday party for our kids and adults were present we offered booze. Likewise, at other kids parties this is the norm. Only time you don't see it is if the kids party is at some party place.
One year we even made the kids snow cones and for the adults we poured liquor on the snow cones with the flavoring.
One year we even made the kids snow cones and for the adults we poured liquor on the snow cones with the flavoring.
Jokes? Never sure, some people really seem to think a beer or two will fuck you up.
A beer or two is "getting pissed out of their trees"? Geez, some of y'all are fuddy-duddies.
if only there were people on this earth who could simultaneously raise children and responsibly consume alcohol
Like Saganator said, a toddler without a parent is unheard of on both ends. Are you just thinking older kid parties? 8+ (too old?) I could see dropping the kids off, but younger than that sounds really irresponsible as a parent and a disaster waiting to happen. You do not subject anyone to a house full of toddlers by themselves.
Nobody is getting drunk at these parties except maybe Uncle Bill who has no kids and came for the cake and shanties.
Our parties were more of a cookout thing that family came to so it'd be weird if they just dropped the kids off.
I don't see a problem with offering alcohol at a kids party. As long as the people consuming it are being responsible there shouldn't be an issue.
i went to my friend's son's first birthday a few months ago and all of us weren't sure if we should/could drink or not
we all ended up having one beer each because we couldn't figure out how much to get
we all ended up having one beer each because we couldn't figure out how much to get
Oh, don't be so dramatic. It's fairly difficult to get tanked off of beer during a party that lasts a couple of hours.
Too much reality in this post.
As to the topic, I mean aren't most of those parents drinking in front of their kids all the time at home anyways? It depends on the setting and it can definitely lead to something embarrassing happening if someone gets shitfaced, but I can totally see why people would be drinking at some kids parties. You don't change the type of person you are just because you become a parent.
I thought this thread was going to ask if it's okay to give kids alcohol. I've had wine since kindergarten. So I was like, yeah sure, in moderation. Cultures them up, you know? But I see this is a thread asking if it's okay for adults to drink alcohol around kids at a birthday party? Now that's unacceptable. What kind of example are you setting for them?
Yeah, honestly. Just because alcohol is offered at a party doesn't mean people will get shit faced drunk. Most people are more than capable of having a few beers and still watch over some kids.
Attended and put on a boatload of kid parties back in the day, and yeah there was pretty much always beer and other booze on offer. How the hell else are the adults going to get through the afternoon?
The only reason to throw a party when you have kids is so there's someone else around to watch your offspring while you get schnockered. That's parenting 101.
could be worse -- could be passing around a blunt in the kitchen while the kids are kicking it in the living room (sadly been to birthday parties like that - talk about uncomfortable, especially when kids run in and people are trying to hide the obvious blunt, pot smoke, and stoned-ness).
I'm trying to think of an event during my childhood where the parents weren't drinking...
Coming up blank.
Coming up blank.
Yes, absolutely. I've gone to maybe like... 10-15 childrens birthday parties ages 1-8 over the last 10 years or so, and adults had beer, wine, or w/e at all of them.
Obviously you don't get ripped up but if you've ever had to go to a children's birthday party, you need beers to get through the event.
Obviously you don't get ripped up but if you've ever had to go to a children's birthday party, you need beers to get through the event.
This is why I'm not ashamed to let my kids have a sip of beer so they can have a taste of it and not make it a huge mystery. Completely shielding your kids from alcohol is what creates drinking problems down the line. Look at Europe, kids can drink at a much younger age and they have way less drinking issues than we have here in the states.
Don't let anybody get fucked up and don't give any to kids. Outside of that you're probably good
what a weird birthday party for a 2 year old,
sounds more like an excuse for adults to drink beer than an actual toddler's birthday
are there any other kids at this party?
sounds more like an excuse for adults to drink beer than an actual toddler's birthday
are there any other kids at this party?
I grew up in the Bible Belt so it's not something I ran into ever as a kid. As long as the parents aren't all trashed, a casual beer or two at a party is totally fine.
I had a neighbor two years ago who had a birthday party for a 5 year old in their backyard on a Sunday. Our buildings were maybe 5 feet apart. Our bedroom windows on the second floor were about 15-20 feet from the yard. We had just moved in that afternoon.
The party went until about midnight. The family was stupid drunk, screaming to talk to one another, blasting music the entire time. There must have been 8-10 people living in this apartment unit and probably 15 people attending the party. I don't care how fun or joyous a birthday party is for people: we couldn't sleep and had to be up for work at early the next day. Their kids were asleep.
We called the cops on them after 12. It's the only time I've ever called the police on someone. The cops came, broke it up, everyone went to bed.
The next morning, around 7 AM, the father of the family was in the backyard talking as loudly as he could to someone right by our window. He was making passive-aggressive threats about "His neighborhood," how "we're all family and people can move if they don't like how loud I am" and the like. My girlfriend felt unsafe and we were both pretty pissed at the situation, so we both went to the police station together that day and talked in person with the sheriff. Apparently that exact apartment had numerous noise complaints over the years and the cops were aware of how pushy the father was. I found out a year later when we moved out that other neighbors had made complaints before, too.
People who hide behind "Oh, it's for my kids!" when being that inconsiderate to everyone else are full of crap. Feel free to drink if you can handle it, but using a kid's birthday party as an excuse to act like a 17 year old who found dad's beer stash is some Grade A dipshit material.
The party went until about midnight. The family was stupid drunk, screaming to talk to one another, blasting music the entire time. There must have been 8-10 people living in this apartment unit and probably 15 people attending the party. I don't care how fun or joyous a birthday party is for people: we couldn't sleep and had to be up for work at early the next day. Their kids were asleep.
We called the cops on them after 12. It's the only time I've ever called the police on someone. The cops came, broke it up, everyone went to bed.
The next morning, around 7 AM, the father of the family was in the backyard talking as loudly as he could to someone right by our window. He was making passive-aggressive threats about "His neighborhood," how "we're all family and people can move if they don't like how loud I am" and the like. My girlfriend felt unsafe and we were both pretty pissed at the situation, so we both went to the police station together that day and talked in person with the sheriff. Apparently that exact apartment had numerous noise complaints over the years and the cops were aware of how pushy the father was. I found out a year later when we moved out that other neighbors had made complaints before, too.
People who hide behind "Oh, it's for my kids!" when being that inconsiderate to everyone else are full of crap. Feel free to drink if you can handle it, but using a kid's birthday party as an excuse to act like a 17 year old who found dad's beer stash is some Grade A dipshit material.
I read the thread title thinking you would be serving alcohol at a kids birthday party and in my mind I thought "wtf?!"; but hearing it is a two year old's birthday than I think it is okay as long as no one gets smashed.
I know it's kinda unusual, so maybe those parents simply hated my sister. But kids start Kindergarten at that age here, so maybe parents see that as normal.
I fail to see the difference between serving beer to parents at a child's birthday party or a parent ordering beer at a restaraunt that they took their child to.
Not really sure what the problem is here, unless they are alcoholics, in which case, they likely shouldn't be drinking around children in the first place.
Not really sure what the problem is here, unless they are alcoholics, in which case, they likely shouldn't be drinking around children in the first place.
I make sure to organize my kids birthday parties at craft beer brewpubs. They like being out at a restaurant, I just like beer. I still like beer. Do you drink beer?
My SO's grandmother is a teetotaler and REFUSES to go to any restaurants or events with alcohol. She refuses to believe her kids/grandkids have anything to do with alcohol even though one of her sons is the VP of a hospital and holds tons of events with flowing booze. Dude always gifts me an expensive bottle of scotch or bourbon when she's not around every Christmas. lol