I’m glad my kids are “too old” for birthday parties

Libby-Jane Charleston
4 min readNov 1, 2020

The drama of children’s parties were overshadowing any kind of celebration

Even choosing the cake turned into a drama (Picography)

When my twins turned seven, we had a small party at home with a handful of their friends.

It was a classic 1970s party with fairy bread, homemade sausage rolls, Twisties and soft drink. There might have been some watermelon too, but 10 years ago nobody rolled their eyes at a…

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Libby-Jane Charleston

Journalist, ex-ABC TV, HuffPost AU Assoc Editor, ABC TV, author, poet, mother of 3 boys, cancer Survivor, history lover