Sweet 16 Party

Davey Jones

Davey Jones

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Who the hell invented this??? Now I gotta do one in March....JMJ!!!!

Went to inquire about renting a hall today....Holy S*** $47.79 an hour with a $200 deposit.

You gals remember yours,gimme some tips will ya.
 

We never had proms until a few years ago; I suppose sweet 16 parties will appear soon!
boys of 16 are not that keen on dressing up etc!
 
Just had one recently for the grand-daughter, Davey. Renting someplace was so expensive, they just had some friends over for a party, games, and one or two stayed overnight.
Probably depends what they are used to and where they live. This is a poor, rural area and most teens would love a huge party, but it's surely not the norm.


ETA: The biggest and best thing our g-daughter got by far, was her driver's license.
 
I didn't even bother with a 21st party, not a party person. I'd been working 6 years by then and 21 was meaningless. Settled for a chowie takeaway and a cake.

Kids are getting really too much into these 'milestones' of life that mean nothing. Celebrate something achieved by all means, like actually getting a job! But any idiot can make it to 16 these days, no kudos in that.
 
Don't overegg it, Davey.
It's just a 16th birthday party.

All they require is a venue, music that they enjoy and refreshments.
If you've got the space, use your own home/backyard.
If not, see if you can hire the local scout hall or similar.

Get a cake, organise someone to take photos and be prepared to make a short complimentary speech midway through the evening.
Set a finish time, enforce the no booze rule and make sure it is by invitation only. No facebook invites to avoid gate crashers.

Easy peasy but good luck anyway.
 
You've never had to think about rationing birthday parties among their various offspring.
Most parents expect to throw a number for each child over the growing years.
The trick is to remain in control and not be subject to peer pressure.
The host should call the shots, not the teens nor the pretentious parties of their friends.

You should see some of the birthday cakes that turn up at our playgroup at church for 2 year olds.
The pressure on other mothers is palpable.
As far as the kids are concerned, any cake with candles is a birthday cake.

As far as teens are concerned, friends, loud music and refreshments constitutes a party.
Everything else is nice, but hardly necessary.
 
How true, zero worries about kids parties here. Phew. A bullet well dodged judging from the horror stories we hear about them gone wrong.

Have seen that 2 year old soiree lunacy in action. Spare me!
Anyone who wants to play that game deserves all stress they get.

Glad I was well away before the teen party traumas got into gear down there.

Someone had one up the hill a few weeks ago and strays were wandering drunk through the park and a couple ended up against the fence. I just sent Belle out to yodel and deafen 'em and they lurched away back up to the party. They sounded like really young kids, but were well and truly plastered. :(
 
When did the whole sweet 16 bash start anyway??? My sister's granddaughter is going to be 16 in March and the preparations have been going on since the middle of the Summer. Sorry, I don't get it, nor to I understand the PROM when leaving grade 9?

Buy a pizza or two and have a house party.
 
I'm probably wrong about the sweet 16 thing, but because I have spent most of my life recovering from one thing or another, I've been a hugh bookworm since I was seven. As an example, I read 97 books in 2013. A few hundred years ago, families of the upper crust, used to have coming out parties to introduce their coming off age children to the local society. 16 for girls (available for marriage) and 21 for guys. Through history, those traditions morfed into sweet 16 parties for the girls and beer bashes when the guys become of legal age. If anyone know of a different theory, I'd be interested.
 
Anne said:
Just had one recently for the grand-daughter, Davey. Renting someplace was so expensive, they just had some friends over for a party, games, and one or two stayed overnight.
Probably depends what they are used to and where they live. This is a poor, rural area and most teens would love a huge party, but it's surely not the norm.


ETA: The biggest and best thing our g-daughter got by far, was her driver's license.
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LOL she just got her learners permit yesterday...God help me.(g)
 
Warrigal said:
Nothing new about kids smuggling booze when there's none provided.
However, duty of care suggests you have to keep them from harm if you can.
It's a worry.
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I was thinking about that too and if I see one bottle or a pill,that party is over PRONTO!!!
At some of these rental halls that I checked out most have a policy of hiring a police office if the capacity reach the hall's limits.
 
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It's that ol' Coming of Age celebration when boys become men and girls women. I'm a late bloomer and got mine at 19 in Vietnam...
 
That`s what the statistics used to say but nowadays-and actually for some years now,the insurance companies are saying that they`ve found that the teen girls are tending to be even more reckless than the boys and charging the same (exorbitant) rates for both. I had the caseworker for my foster daughters tell me last week that it is our responsibility (and the child`s RIGHT) for us to enroll her in driving lessons and get her her license! I just looked at him and said "Ummmm,no. I did not sign that paperwork." He argued with me for a bit-with me telling him that A) I am not willing to put a teen driver on our insurance nor B) Risk her driving my car that I am hoping will last me the rest of my life. Then I told him "And this girl cannot tell her left hand from her right hand." That`s pretty important when driving so that shut him up lol.
 
I think that Sweet Sixteen parties are more regional Here in California,the girls don`t tend to have them-oh,they`ll have a party for sure,but nothing more than they would have at 15 or 17. Unless they are Hispanic-then there is the Quincinera thing at 15 but that`s a whole `nother thing. I know in certain parts of the Country that the Sweet 16 thing is a big deal though.
 
Had a chat last night with another parent that is also having a sweet 16 party for their daughter and the suggesting was to combine both and share all the expenses, I think that will work. Their daughter has slept over my house several times with the grandaughter.

STILL the biggest problem is to get these 2 girls to accept what we can afford,they both go deaf when the adults parents make suggestions re expenses.
SIGH......
 
Davey Jones said:
STILL the biggest problem is to get these 2 girls to accept what we can afford,they both go deaf when the adults parents make suggestions re expenses.
SIGH......
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Easy. Just make it clear that if the parties aren't combined then there won't be a party. They may hate it but in the end will have a wonderful time. Unless, of course, they've been seduced by the spoiled diva idea so popular now a daze . . .
 

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