Secret Agent Birthday Party
We celebrated H's 9th birthday earlier in the month. We threw him a Secret Agent birthday party at home. But before I get to the party details I need to do a mini rant. This was the tenth kids birthday party we have thrown. This includes parties at home and at venues. Never ever had we had a more horrid experience with the kids and the party then we had with this particular party. We had a total of eight children in attendance, all third graders. We had set up stations and created puzzles and codes and most of these kids struggled with these missions. They couldn't follow directions, a few of them couldn't read the larger words, they struggled to put together the most basic puzzles and instead only wanted to wrestle and smack each other in the bums and trash the house. We were appalled. We tried to make the best of the situation but it's not even about the party.. these kids are our future. They are being raised in a world where sports are more important than school, sc