Exactly!!
There are
many things that we understand to be
developmentally inappropriate for young children.
voting, driving, serving in the military...
Maybe kids should learn to do a LOT of other things. After all, they'll need to do them in the real world, too.
Truly, I have always wanted to tell some over-entitled cupcake queen that
if her child "needs" to have THAT much fuss surrounding his/her "special day," to the point that INSTRUCTIONAL activity needs to stop for 20-40
other children....
then
maybe they ought to be homeschooling. Well, that and "Now who isn't for having their kids live in the "real world," eh? How many offices stop work for the day so that Mom can bring in a cake and everyone will 'celebrate' for the afternoon? Think that will work out in the military? I'm sure that a surgeon can just scrub back in after the cupcakes get eaten..."