From a $250,000 f te for a seven-year-old Florida girl, complete with helicopter rides, to $100,000 first birthday parties as reported in the New York Times, this is rapidly becoming the gilded age of children's birthday parties. The cost of these events now averages between $200 and $400, fueled by pressure to "keep up with the Joneses." Couple this surge in interest with the fact that births in the United States have exceeded 4 million...