As ideas about gender have evolved, and reveal parties have sometimes proved destructive, parents-to-be may want to consider other ways to celebrate the expansion of their families.
As ideas about gender have evolved, and reveal parties have sometimes proved destructive, parents-to-be may want to consider other ways to celebrate the expansion of their families.
How to (Safely) Celebrate Your Future Child
ByTaylor LorenzSept. 15, 2020
How to (Safely) Celebrate Your Future Child
How to (Safely) Celebrate Your Future Child
As ideas about gender have evolved, and reveal parties have sometimes proved destructive (a recent wildfire was sparked by a device used at one such event), parents-to-be may want to consider other ways to celebrate the expansion of their families →
How to (Safely) Celebrate Your Future Child
I spoke to Erin McGlasson, the owner of Erin Elizabeth Custom Events in Houston, about hosting an alternative, pandemic-safe party. Here are her tips →
How to (Safely) Celebrate Your Future Child
1. Call it what it is.
If you must partake in this ritual, refer to it as a sex-reveal party and pick a theme that doesn’t read as male or female. Rainbows, for instance, “are synonymous with happiness and acceptance in general,” Ms. McGlasson said.
How to (Safely) Celebrate Your Future Child
2. Reconsider the color palette.
Instead of blue or pink, embrace neutral tones in your decorations and registry. High chairs, strollers and kids’ furniture can be found in tan, gray and white. Tiny clothing comes in all kinds of hues.
How to (Safely) Celebrate Your Future Child
3. Practice social distancing.
You can mark the occasion without jeopardizing anyone’s health or safety. Drive-by parties have become popular, as have outdoor drop-in events, where guests can come and go to limit crowding.
How to (Safely) Celebrate Your Future Child
4. Host a diaper party ...
Events where guests bring diapers for a future baby are growing in popularity and are a great way to help relieve some of the cost burden of having a new child. “I know moms who have thrown diaper parties where they haven’t had to buy a single diaper the entire time their kid was in them,” Ms. McGlasson told me.
How to (Safely) Celebrate Your Future Child
5. Or a teddy bear party.
These gatherings, where guests bring plush toys, are also a great way to welcome a baby without making big pronouncements about biological sex. “A little boy loves a teddy bear just as much as a little girl,” Ms. McGlasson said.
Here’s why we’re talking aboutgender-reveal parties in the first place.
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