{"id":162,"date":"2016-06-20T11:35:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T11:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/?p=162"},"modified":"2016-06-08T11:37:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T11:37:41","slug":"keep-it-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/2016\/06\/keep-it-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep it simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">The growing competitive element of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\">hosting a children\u2019s birthday party<\/a> that has recently emerged now means that many parents end up overspending and creating a party that is filled to the brim with far too many activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Do remember that children love simplicity. Not to say the entertainment shouldn\u2019t be good or varied. It should definitely be good and varied. It needs to be engaging, fun and imaginative too. But parents should avoid the temptation to overload their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\">kid\u2019s party<\/a> with too many activities at the same time as this will end up being over stimulating and confusing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">In the same way, parents that don\u2019t plan enough activities or have any form of\u00a0entertainment at all, can often find that their children are completely underwhelmed, bored or worse become very restless and start running around and be difficult for parents to control. If there is no structure to the entertainment planned this can happen a lot, which is something all parents want to avoid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">A perfect party has a few fun activities planned for different times, but parents should be prepared for their party \u2018timetable\u2019 to change slightly during the celebration so it can be adapted to suit the kid\u2019s energy levels on the day and to accommodate any unforeseen events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Keep it simple and enjoy!!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growing competitive element of hosting a children\u2019s birthday party that has recently emerged now means that many parents end up overspending and creating a party that is filled to the brim with far too many activities.\u00a0 Do remember that children love simplicity. Not to say the entertainment shouldn\u2019t be good or varied. It should &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/2016\/06\/keep-it-simple\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Keep it simple&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,67,66,55,57,100],"tags":[54,71,93,51],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-food","category-fun","category-kids","category-party","category-plan","tag-activities","tag-children","tag-organise","tag-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}