Shannon! Never expected to see you here I love your channel

My collegue told me (we get paid the same she does less work) that she spent 3k on her daughters first bday party. Middle class people or just barely surviving people in this economy are going broke tryna keep up appearances. She also has an instagram with posed photos of her kid. :) so that tells me all i need to know.

@thehockeyguy unexpected encounter! Nice to see you here!

@@AthenaVaughn3k for a 1st birthday?? That’s so wild me and all my friends with kids just gathered at someone’s house or a park lol especially until the kid is like 5-6

@@stalinbeballinmy first child’s first birthday party was about this much. The venue rental alone was over $1200. HOWEVER, that’s not at all relatable. She’s fortunate her grandparents have money to throw huge parties like that. It’s a ridiculous cost for a child’s party, especially at a younger age because they won’t remember anything.

7 kids and 5 adults

LITERALLY like half of them??? I’m pretty sure 7 kids is a normal amount

And I bet the little girl wouldn’t have noticed. If anything she would have been like “ wow! This room is HUGE. I can run around with my friends!!!”

Right I've had a birthday party with 3 other kids 😂 it was around a holiday so understandable but I still remember having a lot of fun

Honestly, whenever I have invited a large group of people to an event, I always anticipate that about half won't be able to make it. They're probably busy parents too, or maybe something comes up last minute. Anticipate that and you'll be happier.

like why is she talking like a teen movie villain

7 would have been enough for me 😂

8 - seven rsvp-ed plus the birthday child. That is a large party as it is.

They would have had plenty of room to run around and play in that big space.

omg genius. imagine getting completely obliterated by Tana Monogeau. Matt will not sleep soundly again.

No way am I jealous of a vapid, spoiled mean girl who exploits her children on-line.

genuinely main character syndrome energy, I didn’t think it was something people did seriously, I’ll do it satirically in mock tiffs with my spouse, “no, star TREK is better because im pretty” 💀 but the audacity to use your looks to… what? prove a point? 😂

@@notericforemanStar Trek IS better and I bet you are pretty so you are right ❤

And she is not even pretty 😅

THAT’S what the saying was! 😭😂

@@AngelikaOlesyou’re my best friend I really like you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Agreed! Plus I'm assuming that the kids and parents who were invited were told they'd be filmed for socials - might be a reason why more people didn't rsvp yes (although 7 kids is already plenty!)

@@madz-mac Yeah I DEFINITELY would not have come if I was just going to be used for content. That's probably what she's actually crying about. Her content wasn't going to look influencer-y enough with only 7 people.

Definitely the type of mom that would get mad at her daughter for not making the cheerleading team

​@@tyralee2286that's what I was thinking. This will go on forever and become more damaging.

There is a video that discusses this perfectly from the woman she actually mentions in this video. Ashley Embers. It is a really important eye opening video that these ipad parents NEED to watch and LISTEN to. They are just hurting their children but they are too into themselves and care way too much about online clout to actually care about the development of their own children. It is really sad.

It makes it hard when you go to a group playdate or you have a kid over to play with your child and they don't really know how to just play. My son, fortunately, has a great attention span and it's really imaginative so I don't really have to worry about him being bored. He also knows I can't stand it when kids say they're bored lol so he doesn't try it. But seriously playdates can be pretty tough because a lot of kids haven't flexed their imagination muscles for a while and they kind of seem to want to be entertained.

@@susanjeffries5108thanks for what you do! I had a kindergarten student who told his mom that he wanted to go home. It was pickup and she and I were talking about something. She told him that we would finish up so they could go home and told him to go play. This little guy found a stick, a puddle, some rocks, flowers, leaves, wood chips, ect, and made a ‘potion’. Happy as a little clam until his mom and I finished up. Imagination is so important.

Great advice!!! 😊

yeah seven probably hyper 4-year-olds on a sugar high sounds like a LOT to deal with, let alone fifteen. i'd be glad that less showed up tbh.

@@leilanyx_I totally agree but also remember a “sugar high” has actually been disproven and there isn’t such a thing. It’s associated more as the child becoming hyperactive as they’re allowed to eat a treat snack and it’s usually accompanied by a fun experience or an activity with their friends which increases their dopamine and makes them overall more excited. A sugar high is not possible and has been scientifically disproven. The only type of “sugar high” to exist is for Type 1 diabetics who have had too much sugar and no insulin. It’s not possible to get a “high” off of something that isn’t a drug. Which is why you can have a caffeine high.

I had 10 kids at my house for birthday party a few years ago. I think I took a week to recover lol. Granted, that was at my house and not at some venue, but even seven kids running around would have been plenty loud and stimulating in my opinion, regardless of the venue. 😂

Even then it took way to long to get her arrested

@@Tismunitedyeah! and to me, she's definitely not getting NEARLY enough jail time 😭

Depends on the country

Tru, I cannot wait till the world catches up with modern times and makes it illegal to put your childrens faces in public videos. Kids in family vlogs have absolutely so privacy:(

She’s the type of woman who peaked at secondary school and you can tell she was probably a mean girl just from how she began her response video at 12:56

Silly, don't you see? It's embarrassing. For. Her. Totally legit reason. /jk

I’m just shy of 31 now, but growing up my mother put a lot of effort into my parties, however, her effort had nothing to do with money spent, aesthetics/appearance, or doing things “big” for show. Instead her effort was focused solely around MY enjoyment, and mine alone. I got to pick out the theme of my party each year, and she would always make my cake how ever I wanted, as well as come up with fun games/activities to fit that theme for us kids to play (and of course, this was the 90s, so there was no Pinterest, meaning she came up with everything 100% herself). My parents were very frugal so everything was done on a budget, but she’d go to great lengths to stretch that money as far as she could. My parties almost always took place in my small childhood home as well. I still have very fond and vivid memories of all of my parties. I remember the themes, the cakes she made, the games she came up with, and the party favors we made together each year. But one thing I don’t remember is how many friends came to my parties. Some years I can recall our small house being fuller than other years, but if you asked me how many kids were there each year, I couldn’t give you an answer. I didn’t care about that. I just had fun, and that alone was what brought my mother happiness and made all her effort worth it to her. It’s sad what some parents have turned children’s parties into these days. It’s no longer about the children, it’s about showing off and outdoing other mothers. It’s disgusting for any parent to do what this so-called “mother” did to her daughter, and even more disgusting that she is incapable of recognizing just how wrong she was in her actions. Her poor daughter deserves so much better. Makes me so sad for her, having to grow up with such a selfish parent. 😔💔

Right? As a kid we always had the “invite the whole class” rule so no one felt left out (which is fine I support the concept because exclusion is painful) but as a kid I didn’t want the whole class 😂 I wanted my like 1-3 or 4 friends I had.

She wouldn't have noticed. The 4 year old wouldn't have noticed who wasn't there, because she would have been too busy having fun with the friends who did show up. Don't cancel your kid's birthday party, just downsize the venue.

@@abbyjohnson1702 Exactly!

So true, my 3yo loves boxes. Her favourite is to sit inside one with felt tip pens and decorate it. So simple but she's in her element doing it.

@@moomin1632 so once they sleep through the night and are ambulatory, they have a period where they become more artistic cats?

@@itwasmedionysus exactly, they even hiss if you try to take the box away....well mine does.

Honestly idk why but it kept reminding me of Jeffree star. Gave me the ick instantly

Hugging six-year-old you and telling you it's okay to not enjoy big crowds and noise. 🤗

🤗💕🤗

I genuinely do not remember any birthday below the age of 12 lol!

@@desautumni unfortunately remember almost everything from 3 years on. Every last ranch I never got to the customer still haunts me

Most of the time, my brother was the only person who attended my birthday parties 😂

Dam I loved that or stickers and freeze or musical chairs

homemade cake is better than store bought cake, even if its just box mix…just feels more special