Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe is very excited to celebrate her twins' first birthday alongside her husband, Brandon Frankel, but she isn't being precious about hosting an actual birthday party.
While on the Sherri daytime television show opposite Sherri Shepherd, Sidibe opened up about her relationship with her husband, her time filming Precious, and of course, the joys of pregnancy, motherhood, and her beautiful "cinnamon baby" twins.
With their first birthday coming up, it was only natural for Shepherd and Sidibe to discuss any birthday plans she had up her sleeve, but refreshingly, the mom pointed out that there's a big difference between celebrating someone's existence and throwing a party for it.
Sidibe pointed out:
"We are one hundred percent going to celebrate them, but we want to celebrate them with an experience. We want to take them to the zoo or to the aquarium."
"But they're not going to remember a party!"
"By the time our kids are three, that's probably going to be their first party. But right now, they don't have friends. They're not going to remember a party."
More important, she said that at this age a child's birthday party is more for their parents and adult friends.
So hosting a birthday party despite the parents not being "party people" would make even less sense.
"And to be fair, they had to trick me into having a baby shower! I don't like parties."
"I get wanting to celebrate for the parents and stuff, but I don't like that many people in my house."
"My husband is also not a party person."
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It's lovely that parents want to throw big celebrations for their children at every age, but Gabourey Sidibe made such an important point here about the social lives and memories of young children: these parties are more so for the adults, and the children will not remember the party anyway!
It's a great idea to take young children out for experiences, especially places like the aquarium that are so visually and mentally stimulating for them. The big party can wait until the kids are older and can invite friends they've made.
