Money Never Fails.
You can’t go wrong with a nice fat check. If you’re worried that the kid won’t “enjoy” receiving your gift, consider cold hard cash. Break it down into singles and put it in a suit case (you might want to find a kid-size suit case), or a cool new piggy bank. Add a catalog flagged with all the things they can now afford to buy with all the money you gave them. They’ll be thrilled and the parents will be thrilled and then the kids will forget to actually spend the money, and the parents will be even more thrilled.
Despite my own ambitions to please the kids, the parents, the pediatrician, and the neighbors too, I suggest that if you have to choose one happy gift-getter, choose the kid. Good luck with that!
