Confetti

Holidays are exciting and important times for children, engendering special feelings and creating memories of family and friends to treasure forever. Whether the rituals performed are simple or elaborate, they set a holiday apart from all other days.

Children, to a far greater degree than adults, need to have their importance in the world affirmed by the people they love. Birthdays, as well as major holidays like Christmas and Easter, provide this reinforcement, as traditional roles are reversed and the children become the center of attention.

The Confetti series has been created to stimulate children’s imaginations and to enhance the experience of life’s celebrations. This feeling of holiday magic is a lasting source of strength in difficult times. Fortified with a sense of enchantment and a store of deeply satisfying customs and rituals, the child grows up with the ability to deal with the realities of life.

“So all great children’s holidays—birthdays, Christmas, Easter—are days which commemorate and celebrate birth and in this way assure the child that his arrival on this earth was a happy occasion, eagerly wished for by his parents and the world. The more we celebrate these occasions, the more certain the child can feel about being loved.”

(Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist, A Good Enough Parent, page 373, Pocket, Vintage Books, 1987)