Anyone else's girl hate Happy Birthday?

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My daughter is 5 (she'll be 6 in July) and she has always hated the

Happy Birthday song and birthday's in general.

It hasn't mattered if it was being sung for her or someone else. Her

reaction has varied from just getting really sad, to a full blown tantrum.

She has always enjoyed all the other aspects of the parties, but just when

it comes time to sing happy birthday.

The last b'day party she was invited to she wouldn't even go, although I

don't know that she really understood it was going to be a 'happy birthday'

party. I only told her we were going to go bounce and she just wouldn't go

and kept saying she was going to stay right here.

I let her stay home cause we were having real issues with the carseat and

her staying in the seat and I figured if she didn't want to go, I didn't

want to force her the whole way there even though I knew she would have had

a blast at the bounce place (she has always loved bounce houses) It just

wasn't worth the fight.

Her sister's birthday was last Thursday and we took a small cookie cake to

our Girl Scout meeting just to have a small observance of her actual

birthday (she's having a sleep over this weekend for her official party with

her friends) and again when it came time for everyone to sing happy

birthday, got real sad. I'm guessing that something about this is

just a bit too overwhelming for her, but don't really get why. Why that

specific aspect... Which I guess is what we all wonder about some of the

things that set our kids off huh? LOL

Anyway, I had meant to tell them that we didn't need to sing it just maybe

tell her instead, but it totally slipped my mind and next thing I know

someone had started up.

We have another birthday party to go to at the Bounce place this Sunday, and

currently has been doing much better at wanting to go places again

and behaving for the trips, so I am hopeful that she will go to this little

girl's b'day party. My mom is going to help me remember to take her to use

the bathroom just before they do the cake, so hopefully we can avoid the

Happy Birthday part of it.

Anyone else's daughter (or yourself) have this adversion to the Happy

Birthday song? or maybe another?

Theresa