Big Sister/Big Brother Party

ohkay · February 2015

Can someone please explain what this is? A friend of mine just posted she hopes to see everyone tonight at her niece's big sister party. I've never heard of such a thing. Have any of you?

MCH77 · February 2015

Maybe it's the new "gender reveal" or "sprinkle". I've never heard of it either.

MEXARAB · February 2015

Have no idea. Why don't you ask her?

Mamamads · February 2015

Oye just what we need another party. People want a celebration for every little thing these days it's super disturbing. Never heard of this op

ChristyM87 · February 2015

I have no idea

Synnovus · February 2015

Wild guess, but I would think it is a party for the child who becomes a big sister/ big brother that is meant to make said child feel included, loved, important and not left out and ignored now that there is a new baby coming

sekosmides · February 2015

While we aren't doing a party, we are planning special activities that only DD is "old enough" to do..... Going to see grandma & grandpa for a week, decorating the playroom at her step-grands new house, sleeping in her own room at the cabin, etc. Everyone is making a real effort to make memories with her before the chaos of new baby, especially with steps involved it can get tricky.

Billingsleymommy · February 2015

sekosmides said:
While we aren't doing a party, we are planning special activities that only DD is "old enough" to do..... Going to see grandma & grandpa for a week, decorating the playroom at her step-grands new house, sleeping in her own room at the cabin, etc. Everyone is making a real effort to make memories with her before the chaos of new baby, especially with steps involved it can get tricky.

We are trying to do the same thing for our daughter. We are taking an overnight trip before the baby is born....stay in a hotel with a water slide. We are also having her help decorate the nursery and pick out decorations for her new room. I brought her with me to do my registry and let her pick out toys for the new baby.

sschwege · February 2015

Nope and if I ever knew anyone IRL who did this they would be getting a major eye roll from me. Please don't say this is what our 'every kid gets a trophy' society is coming to. Why stop there? What about the 'poor' children who will never be big brother or sister? Shouldn't they get a party too?! Maybe an "Only Child Party" could be arranged or a "Little brother/sister Party"! Only our generation could conceive of such an idea, good grief!

ipumpkin · February 2015

All these parties are nonsense. In addition to the new "sprinkle" parties, and big/little bro/sis parties and gender reveal parties, I hear there is a "tinkle" party too for third children. What the fuck?

sschwege · February 2015

I remember the woman I used to nanny for used to get so annoyed with her SIL because she would throw 1/2 birthday parties for her daughters. The 1/2 parties weren't as big as the actual year birthdays, but she would still get a cake, invite family over and celebrate that 'mile stone'. Knowing how indulgent this mother was she probably got them little gifts too, but I never asked about that. Does everything have to be celebrated?!

ohkay · February 2015

So I facebooked stalked the family for a few days until pictures surfaced. The big sister party included a special big sister outfit, cake, and gifts for big sis and the baby. I get the vibe that is was like a baby shower but with a focus on the older child.

qtjo5 · February 2015

ohkay said:
So I facebooked stalked the family for a few days until pictures surfaced. The big sister party included a special big sister outfit, cake, and gifts for big sis and the baby. I get the vibe that is was like a baby shower but with a focus on the older child.

Dumb. Sorrynotsorry.

GSUDavis · February 2015

ohkay said:

So I facebooked stalked the family for a few days until pictures surfaced. The big sister party included a special big sister outfit, cake, and gifts for big sis and the baby. I get the vibe that is was like a baby shower but with a focus on the older child.

That's exactly what I thought it might be. Also think it's dumb. >=/

ipumpkin · February 2015

SHIT. No wonder the next generation is a bunch of babies. They're getting spoiled and everything handed to them in the form of little parties.

I kid you not, one of my FB friends is now throwing some kind of pee-pee party for her kid who is finally going to the bathroom in the toilet consistently. I saw this last night. *FACEPALM!* I get it, celebrate that shit - but a fcking party? SERIOUSLY?

Oh, and!!! I just want to vent about this real quick - When my child turns 1 year old, I will refer to my child as being 1 year old. I seriously cannot stand the "oh (s)he's 24 months old" shit. BLAH! It's 2. Your kid is 2. Why can't we go by years now?! Just to make this worse, one of my other friends also brought to my attention how she has a friend who still refers to her kid as WEEKS old. she straight up sent me a picture of a status update that said " 58 weeks old "

SMH!

GSUDavis · February 2015

ipumpkin I'm totally with you on the months to years transition in identifying age. That junk is just ridiculous! But I did notice when we were doing our baby registry, the clothes are sized like that still. ie: size 24 months. smh.

ipumpkin · February 2015

I also noticed that, and I'll do the math in my head like I do now...it;'s just easier for people when they ask. " Ohh you're 19 weeks so that makes you how many months " "Your kid is 18 months so that makes them a year and... " A year and a half. My kid is 1 and a half years old. UGH. lol..

ipumpkin · February 2015

Maybe it's my general territory and everyone around is an idiot, I don't know. Lol.

GSUDavis · February 2015

I know. People that don't have kids or have never been pregnant (guys mostly) don't immediately know how far along I am when I say 19 weeks. So I've started saying "I'm 19 weeks, 1 week shy of 5 months" or "I'm 19 weeks, almost half way through". That way they have some sense of timing on how far a long I am.

sschwege · February 2015

Hmmm maybe it's regional about the months thing, but I do months up until they turn two. I never hear anyone say, "My child is 1 or 1 1/2" It's 12 thru 23 months here.

sarahsairsair · February 2015

Ugh when I am asked how old DS is I say he's almost 3, not 155 weeks or 35.5 months. How far along, I answer around 4 months - people are only asking to be polite - they don't care THAT much - I don't get this need to be really precise

sschwege · February 2015

sarahsairsair said:

Ugh when I am asked how old DS is I say he's almost 3, not 155 weeks or 35.5 months. How far along, I answer around 4 months - people are only asking to be polite - they don't care THAT much - I don't get this need to be really precise

@sarahsairsair this is a potentially stupid question, but how do you know how many months pregnant you are? Like do you take the number of weeks you are and divide by 4 or something like that? Somebody asked me how many months pregnant I was the other day and didn't know how to answer, basically said I was at the start of the second tri.

sarahsairsair · February 2015

I just work off the basis that there is 4.33 weeks in a month (yearly average) and divide how many weeks I am by that - gives a rough estimate - I just think it's easier for non-pregnant people to grasp than weeks. It may not be the correct way to work it out - but it'll do for my purposes

qtjo5 · February 2015

sarahsairsair said:
I just work off the basis that there is 4.33 weeks in a month (yearly average) and divide how many weeks I am by that - gives a rough estimate - I just think it's easier for non-pregnant people to grasp than weeks. It may not be the correct way to work it out - but it'll do for my purposes

I have been dividing by 4. But is 4.33 more accurate?

Lferr417 · February 2015

ipumpkin said:
SHIT. No wonder the next generation is a bunch of babies. They're getting spoiled and everything handed to them in the form of little parties.
I kid you not, one of my FB friends is now throwing some kind of pee-pee party for her kid who is finally going to the bathroom in the toilet consistently. I saw this last night. *FACEPALM!* I get it, celebrate that shit - but a fcking party? SERIOUSLY?
Oh, and!!! I just want to vent about this real quick - When my child turns 1 year old, I will refer to my child as being 1 year old. I seriously cannot stand the "oh (s)he's 24 months old" shit. BLAH! It's 2. Your kid is 2. Why can't we go by years now?! Just to make this worse, one of my other friends also brought to my attention how she has a friend who still refers to her kid as WEEKS old. she straight up sent me a picture of a status update that said " 58 weeks old "
SMH!

One of my friends kids is 3.5...and she still posts how many weeks... I just don't get it.. People have commented in a cute manner and she just replies... "it's so funny I have to keep it up.." no. No it isnt.
Ugh!

lilweenie · February 2015

Every child is a special snow flake these days apparently. On and while we are on the topic, i cant stand when parents refer to their children as 'my beautiful daughter' or 'my adorable son'. Why can't you just say 'my daughter' or 'my son'.

asherk · February 2015

We're having a gender reveal 'party,' but it's really just going to be a potluck cookout with family where we all pop some confetti poppers to see if it's a boy or a girl (DH and I won't know until then, which should be fun), haha. We're only doing a get together because our family is enormous, and that's the easiest way to tell everyone. It's also the first grandbaby for my parents and the first biological one for DH's parents (his step-sister had a baby in May), so we wanted to do something special for them. If this were a second child, I definitely would not do one. I'm also probably not having a shower (there's no one to really throw it, and I'm not tacky enough to ask), so this will probably be it as far as baby celebrations go (and we've told everyone that this is a no-gift affair).

Some people go WAYYY too far with them though; it's ridiculous. Aforementioned SIL had a party with over 100 people, rented out a whole place and everything, and asked people to bring books for the baby. It was nuts, but she's the type to throw a party for anything, so not overly surprising. I am a teensy bit worried that my nephew will grow up being more special snowflake than normal, but I guess that's out of my hands. I don't get the appeal in making a huge deal out of tiny milestones though...but I hate planning things, so that may be a contributing factor.

Mamamads · February 2015

ipumpkin said:
SHIT. No wonder the next generation is a bunch of babies. They're getting spoiled and everything handed to them in the form of little parties.
I kid you not, one of my FB friends is now throwing some kind of pee-pee party for her kid who is finally going to the bathroom in the toilet consistently. I saw this last night. *FACEPALM!* I get it, celebrate that shit - but a fcking party? SERIOUSLY?
Oh, and!!! I just want to vent about this real quick - When my child turns 1 year old, I will refer to my child as being 1 year old. I seriously cannot stand the "oh (s)he's 24 months old" shit. BLAH! It's 2. Your kid is 2. Why can't we go by years now?! Just to make this worse, one of my other friends also brought to my attention how she has a friend who still refers to her kid as WEEKS old. she straight up sent me a picture of a status update that said " 58 weeks old "
SMH!

STOP! People really do that? I hate the months thing but weeks?! Ridiculous

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