How do primary school students celebrate their birthdays nowadays?

An article with the theme "Children's birthdays will turn into Vanity Fair" was widely circulated in WeChat Moments at the end of May. The article said that the first birthday child in their class took the whole class to an equestrian club for horse riding. birthday party. Since then, the "war" has escalated. For the second child's birthday party, the parents hired a children's theater to perform a fairy tale for the children; for the third child's birthday party, they went to a five-star hotel and rented a huge inflatable castle; for the fourth child's birthday party, they rented a huge inflatable castle I bought a single-family villa with a large lawn, and hired a public relations company to organize the venue, including clowns, hosts, dancers, barbecue parties...

Are children’s birthdays so luxurious nowadays? How do primary school students in Guangzhou celebrate their birthdays? The reporter interviewed some parents and children in Guangzhou and listened to their true feelings when attending children's birthday parties.

It is normal to hold birthday parties for children

The reporter visited primary schools in various districts of Guangzhou and found that birthday parties for primary school students are not new. Many parents have held birthday parties for their children.

Ms. Zhou, a second-grade parent of a primary school in Haizhu District, and the students of Wushan Primary School all said that on their children’s birthdays, they would invite classmates who had a good time to go to a Western-style fast food restaurant to eat hamburgers, French fries, and drink Coke. Will bring cakes and other food prepared by myself.

Mr. Li from Yuexiu District, his son Xiaoming (pseudonym) is studying in the third grade of Yangji Primary School this year. Invite classmates to your child's birthday party to celebrate at home, buy candies and bring them back to school to treat them to.

Ms. Ren’s daughter attended two first-grade classmates’ birthday parties: one was to sing KTV in the hall on the No. 5 tarmac, and the other was to celebrate with a buffet in a hotel.

A small number of parents also expressed that they would not hold birthday parties for their children. Ms. Huang from Zhentai Experimental Primary School in Haizhu District believes that a conservation-oriented society is being advocated now, and so is the family, so she does not hold birthday parties for her children. But I will give some meaningful gifts, such as books the children like or movies or children's dramas they like to watch.

"I told my son that I was in so much pain the day he was born. Do you have the nerve to celebrate my pain every year..." Tony's mother said this.

A male classmate in the second grade of Wushan Primary School has not held a birthday party so far. “I have never attended other students’ birthday parties, and I don’t want to hold one myself. It’s too troublesome.”

Small birthday parties are the mainstream

The vast majority of parents say that when organizing birthday parties for their children, they should do what they can and not pursue "luxury".

Mr. Li said that when celebrating a child’s birthday, one should not blindly pursue ostentation. Otherwise, the children will not know how to cherish it and develop the bad habit of spending money lavishly. Ms. Zhou believes that the current frequency and extent are within the acceptable range. If adding some themes to the birthday party will increase the cost, she does not think it is necessary.

Ms. Chen from Haizhu District’s son is in sixth grade at Zhentai Experimental Primary School this year. She holds a birthday party for her child every year, but it is relatively small. She usually invites five or six classmates to have dinner at home after school. , eat cake. She said that if financial conditions permit, it is still necessary to hold large birthday parties for children on some important days. "For example, on my child's 18th birthday, I think we should hold a good birthday party to leave him a good memory in his life. After all, there are not many important moments when he is growing up."

Luxurious birthday parties cause a burden to participants

During the interview, we found that there are also elementary school students who have "luxurious" birthday parties. Some parents said they had attended super-luxurious birthday parties held in luxury homes with swimming pools in the city and at that parent-child hotel in Dashi, Panyu.

“Last year, the theme of my child’s brother’s birthday party was Western etiquette. 14 children were invited to attend in a Western restaurant. A special etiquette teacher was invited to the birthday party to teach Western etiquette. Because most of the children have already In the third grade, we held a themed birthday party focusing on children’s Western food etiquette,” Ms. Ren said.

In a key primary school in Yuexiu District, a classmate of junior student Tongtong (pseudonym) celebrated a birthday. The theme of the birthday party was "Disney Princess", and every child attending the party had to wear a Disney princess dress. skirt.

When this classmate invited Tongtong to a birthday party, the Tongtong family encountered a dilemma.

If you go to a birthday party, you have to buy an authentic Disney princess dress, which costs about 500 yuan. However, because Tongtong’s mother is seriously ill, the family’s financial situation is not optimistic; if you don’t go to the birthday party, then Tongtong will If you refuse a classmate's invitation, will that classmate stop playing with Tongtong from now on?

After careful consideration, Tongtong’s family had no choice but to ask her uncle to buy a princess dress from Shanghai and send it to Guangzhou. “I don’t want my problems to affect Tongtong’s social life in the children’s circle,” Tongtong’s mother said helplessly. explain.