ALL PARENTS know how pricey holding birthday parties for their children can get – but one mum has gone to shocking lengths to bring down the cost.
A woman has revealed that her friend is charging kids to attend her daughter’s birthday party.
Writing into the Boston Globe’s Miss Conduct agony aunt column, she sought advice.
The mum’s friend revealed that her pal was asking for $20 – roughly £15 – per child to help cover the cost of the bash for her little girl.
However, fellow parents have shared their fury at the decision and have been raging behind her back.
The woman feels conflicted over whether she should intervene and tell the mum.
“I have a close friend who I adore,” she wrote in her letter.
“She is lovely and kind and a truly wonderful person. But every year, she charges people to come to her daughter’s birthday party.
“If it is at a venue, the e-mail will say something along the lines of ‘please bring $20 to cover the cost of your child’.
“If it is at her home, there will be an envelope or basket asking for ‘donations’.”
The friend added: “They’re not poor. People talk about it behind her back. Should I say something?”
Robin Abrahams, the ‘agony aunt’, told her: “Yes, oh yes. Don’t tell her people are talking about her behind her back or say ‘we all feel that way’ – that kind of thing only makes people paranoid.
“But yes, speak up before her poor daughter has to, since sooner or later the girl will realise what her mother is up to and be humiliated.
“Keep your beliefs about finances to yourself, though. Unless you’re her accountant, you don’t really know how she’s doing financially.”
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