A couple of years ago, my kids (then ages 9, 6, and 4) started coming home from birthday celebrations and other events with goodie bags. You may be familiar with them too—Mary Poppins–esque ...

For a smaller party — slumber parties are an obvious plus! — a set of matching PJs is an amazing and fun goodie bag idea that can be given to the kids at the beginning of the party. Plus, they ...

They would start talking about goody bags before we even arrived at a birthday party, wondering what color the plastic [fill-in-the-blank] would be and whether there would be Ring Pops.

11 Things To Stick In A Kid's Party Bag That Aren't 'Plastic Crap' As one parent exclaimed: "Please, for the love of god, stop the birthday party goody bag madness." ...