When Are Cupcakes More Important Than Compassion?
Birthdays are beautiful things and deserve to be celebrated.  Have a cake at home, by all means.  Go all out and have a chocolate-peanut-butter-meringue-almond-butter-cashew-pistachio cake topped with buttercream chock-full of dairy and artificial colors. It's your party. But don't complain because your kid can't have that at school, where they're supposed to be focused on learning.
Kristin V. Shaw, Contributor
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