Product Description

Provides a variety of meaningful ways to celebrate birthdays; shares strategies for organizing both family birthday parties and birthday parties with peers; supplies ideas for invitations, food, games, and activities for birthday parties; and gives age-specific tips, ideas, and complete party plans for children ages one through the elementary school years.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #401426 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From the Back Cover
It’s More Than a Birthday!

It’s a fantastic opportunity to affirm your child’s unique, God-given abilities and interests. The Birthday Book shows you the priceless benefits of celebrating your child’s birthday—then gives you a myriad of meaningful ways to make his or her special day fun and totally unforgettable.

From creating a keepsake videotape, to developing a dinnertime birthday tradition, to planning a parent-child birthday getaway or organizing a birthday bash for your child’s friends, you’ll find mom-tested strategies inside, together with a bonanza of ideas for themes, invitations, decorations, food, games, resources, and tips. Even better, it’s all laid out in age groups to help you and your child celebrate in appropriate ways for every phase of the growing-up years: · Fun When You’re One · Terrific Times for Twos and Threes · Fun Festivities for Fours and Fives · Stupendous Fun for School-Age Kids · Totally Teens

About the Author
Shelly Radic combines her experience as an educator, activities director, speaker, and mother of four to provide tools for today's parents. Having hosted over forty children's birthday celebrations and attended countless others, Shelly is delighted to provide parents with a wealth of birthday planning ideas. Shelly lives with her family in southern California.

Customer Reviews

A welcome shift in perspective
This is not just another party idea book. Too often we (myself included) have these thoughts running through our heads about a month or two before our child's birthday: "what am I going to DO for junior's birthday this year" and "how am I going to top last year's party?" This book shifts our thoughts from 'doing' for our child to 'being there' for our child. I especially liked Shelly's discussion about birthday traditions to begin and continue (with age-appropriate modification) throughout the teen years. She gives a particurlarly good suggestion which I won't give away here!
Speaking from my point of view as a mom raising children in one of the most materialistic areas of the entire world, I can tell you that bigger [parties] is not always better. Shelly was able to articulate this in her book in a way that I've always felt but was not able to put into words.
Yes, this book is a great reference for party ideas and I know I will use it and give it to other moms for years to come. However, I feel that the book's strength is in the encouragement it gives parents to shift the focus of the birthday celebration from event-oriented activities to child-centered love and care.