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A Teen-Age Party
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You can have an evening full of fun and loving for your teenage kids group without going out and any expense. Take a tip on arranging a simple but quite entertaining party for your kids' gang.

A party for a bunch of thirteen-year-old boys I quailed at the prospect. A party for younger boys

(and there had been plenty of them at our house) was all right and easy to manage. But thirteen! That fussy age too old for a small boy party and not quite old enough for a young man party. However our thirteen-year-old was all for giving a party for the bunch. We did not want to refuse because we believe along with many others that it is wise to welcome your sons' friends in the home.

"Shall it be a dinner party or an evening party, and do you want to invite both boys and girls?" I asked, hoping that girls might be included for their supposedly quieting influence on lively boys. No, this was to be a "stag" in the evening with refreshments. "We don't want a bunch of paper and pencil games, Mother," he admonished. "That's too much like school."

Already I had pictured the boys quietly sitting around card tables' playing card games or doing quizzes. Quickly I revised my thinking this was to be an active party for active boys. The boys, fourteen of them, were invited, and games were planned. The evening arrived and so did the boys. Some were dressed in suits and white shirts, others in flannel shirts and corduroys, while several arrived dressed as comedians. While the boys were arriving they seemed to be a bit self-conscious. Lads at this age are not exactly social butterflies, although these boys came from homes where parties among both adults and children were frequent
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As soon as the clan had

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