This has gotten out of control over the past 5-10 years. What happened to pin the tail on the donkey?

Friend of mine lives in a town where all the parents in his kid's class seem to compete to see who can have the "best" party for their kids. It's not a particularly wealthy town (people are doing fine but aren't rich), yet so many give their kids these over the top parties. He says they don't even really want to do it but they want to "fit in" (whatever that means), they feel some kind of conformist social pressure. They also they want to appear like they have plenty of money, at least as much as all the neighbors. It's nuts.

I'm actually petrified that the author lives round where I do, and our kids are going to have the same sort of expectations as this Arabella kid has for her birthday. :-(

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