Say goodbye to small birthday parties with close-knit family and friends. Nowadays, birthday invitations have become quite elaborate. From inscribed umbrellas, to a bouquet of chocolate roses; parents leave no stone unturned. Theme birthdays are not restricted to pink and blue colors, or swimwear. The latest ones include costume parties, rollerblade parties, and even scuba-diving parties.
Forget cream cookies and apple pie. New age birthday parties require you to come up with exotic food from distant lands. Well-heeled kids know the difference between sushi and sashimi. They have a fair idea of what constitutes a good gelato. So, take care not to end up with a faux pas.
Kids have a hectic social calendar with birthday invitations almost every week. While it is important for kids to mingle with their peers, it is not necessary for them to attend every single birthday party they are invited to. Overindulgence can lead to imbalanced development. Children begin to focus on the materialistic aspects of the birthday rather than the emotional ones.
Inculcate a healthy attitude towards birthdays with these beautiful birthday wishes. Messages of love and warmth encourage children to develop a positive attitude towards birthdays. Share these birthday wishes and messages with your children and inspire them to enjoy life.
- Jean Paul Richter
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
- Jennifer Yane
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
- Bob Dylan
May you stay forever young.
- William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws his beams!
- Billy Mills
Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.
- Sammy Hagar
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
- Abraham Lincoln
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- John P. Grier
You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.
- Alphonse Karr
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
- Robert Orben
The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.
- Ellen Glasgow
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
- Sir Norman Wisdom
As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
- Jonathan Swift
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- John Glenn
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
- Branch Rickey
First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly.
- Bernard Baruch
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Emily Dickinson
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
- Lewis Carroll
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Wilson Mizner
The first hundred years are the hardest.
- Garson
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is the work of art.
- Bobby Kelton
Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece?
- Billie Burke
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
- Anouk Aimee
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
