The Amount of $ Uber Wealthy Are Spending On Kids Parties Will Make You Sick

Wealthy parents are dropping serious cash on birthday parties for their kids. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live

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"If you’re a parent with an Instagram account, you probably follow some celebrity or influencer parents, just by nature of the beast. You may have noticed over the last few years that children’s birthday parties are taking on the extreme planning and expense usually reserved for landmark milestones like weddings or… weddings.

“It used to be that over-the-top was looked down upon, but now over-the-top is applauded,” Leesa Zelken, the founder of Send in the Clowns, a party-planning service in Los Angeles, told the New York Times. The recent NYT article uncovered the extent to which Los Angeleno parents are going to make their kids feel extra special on their special days. And it’s pretty ridiculous. Zelken tells the NYT that her packages for children’s parties start at $14,500. “For an event that I just booked, we’re doing furniture rentals, a performer, a glitter tattoo station, a craft station, a pancake artist, a party manager, and a lifeguard—because there’s a pool and we need to make sure no one falls in,” she said. “That’s a very midsize party.”*

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