Genius kids birthday party idea has some parents on edge: Literally a nightmare of a situation

A kids’ birthday party in Australia is making a splash among parents, some of whom say it may be the best idea they’ve ever seen.Scenes of the festivities, filmed by the birthday girl’s mom, have gone viral on social media, racking up more than one million views and praise from hundreds of parents.“My daughter had a genius birthday party idea.Doing a park crawl!” the mom wrote alongside the video, as footage showed roughly a dozen children climb into a kid-friendly party bus to the tune of Pitbull’s club banger “Fireball.”“Hitting all the best parks in town!”The party was not only a hit with the young guests, who danced their way to various locations, but also parents around the world, including podcaster, Monique Bowley.Speaking on her podcast, “Parenting Out Loud,” on Monday, Ms Bowley said the park crawl “might be the best kids’ party idea” she’s ever seen.“What you do is you hire a bus, you load kids onto it, you pick three or four parks in your city or your neighbourhood and you just go park to park for the party,” she told her co-hosts, Amelia Lester and Stacey Hicks.The kids enjoy snacks while on the bus, and at the last park, “it’s birthday cake time”.After that, the children, “bedraggled and wrecked” from a day of playing in parks, are driven back to the bus stop to be collected by their parents.But the best part, Ms Bowley said, is that other parents can’t fit on the bus.“There’s no standing around at a kids party, holding a paper plate, making awkward conversation,” the mom of two gleefully said.“It’s just like, see ya later, see you in five hours – how good is it!”Parents split over park crawl party ideaSurprisingly, parents online are divided over whether the party is a “brilliant” idea, or a recipe for disaster.Some said they had already hosted a park crawl for their own kids, while others said they “couldn’t think of anything worse”, and that supervising children in one park was ...