Like many kids who grew up in the ’80s, I went to a few friends’ and classmates’ birthday parties every year, and they were mostly simple, thrown-together affairs.

Winslow said she has since discussed with her kids -- now 7, 6 and 2 -- other ways to celebrate their birthdays and they're interested in using the money they would've spent on a birthday party on ...

Kids wish a happy birthday to woman who waves at their school bus every day 00:45. Bonnie Linder waves to a school bus full of kids every weekday from her home in the small town of Hartley, Iowa.

Some kids' party ideas are classics. Balloons, pinatas, a sugary punch that turns every kid's mouth the same shade of red — these are rites of passage for every child.

RALEIGH, North Carolina -- When police officers arrived at 5-year-old Eli's birthday party, his grandmother, Tosha Holder, started recording. "It was five officers," Holder said. "I was sitting ...