It’s Her Party And I’ll Cry If I Want To

A dad needed help with a kid’s party that no one was going to attend but the Life of Dad community showed up, offering up a flood of gifts in the form of awesome dad advice and fun birthday ideas! If it’s your kids naming celebration soon, you may use this Naming ceremony invitation website to design a fun and creative invitation.

Dougie Urquhart: Cancel the party and take her to some fun activities and a few extra toys, movies, swimming pool, or ask her what she’d really love to do, make her day all about her, not about who didn’t attend.

Gloria Egan: Do something else, take her somewhere awesome. We took my son to a hotel with a waterpark last year instead of a party and he had a blast.

Jason Noble: I only take my boys to their one grandparents house where it’s just them and us. Birthdays aren’t about presents. They are about family. Stick with your key members and love each other.

James Nicholas Shores Jr.: Are these kids or adults? A 4 year old world revolves around parents and grandparents. Or whoever they are around the most. Had a total of 5 people at my boys 3rd b day party. He was in heaven.

Rob Davies: Depending on where you live, tell her that the party has been canceled because Mickey Mouse wanted her to come to Disneyland for her birthday. Hopefully you live somewhere near Disneyland. If not, find something like that and tell her that same thing. It could even be Chuck E. Cheese! Make her feel important so that the cancellation of the party does not matter. All she’s focused on is that whatever character asked her to come and visit for her birthday.

Carlos Belmont: My son just turned 5. Only about 3 of his cousins showed up. And he was perfectly happy. As long as its a fun and love filled day she will have a blast. We just had some simple food, a small cake and spent the day in the pool at grandmas house, and he had a blast.. Even ordered some pizza for him and his pals.

Zach Walker: Take her to a place filled with kids her age. They’ll naturally gravitate towards each other since they all are driven by socialization. In the beginning, you are able to realistically set healthy expectations for yourself and her. This will hopefully alleviate the likelihood of disappointment. Good news is, even if it doesn’t, you can use that opportunity to be empathetic and connect with her. She’ll know that you’re there when everyone else isn’t and that’s worth more than a “party”.

Brandon Rossi: Same thing happened for my daughters 4th birthday, so we told her we think it’d be more fun to go to an amusement park that day and do some other things. And that a lot of her friends were on vacation (they actually were) At the end of the day I asked if she was glad we went instead of having a party, and she said “yeah! It was so fun! I wish we could go back tomorrow!”

Daniel Robinson: What if I told you at that age kids don’t really care as long as you make them feel special on their birthday. And are we talking like not even family coming ? If no one is coming just try something like a birthday date with mom and dad doing something fun. But like I said as long as kids feel special they don’t usually care about who or how many people come.

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