Subject: Parents want Yiddishe Cup. Child isn’t sure.
Strategy: Discuss the following points with your child:
1. You’re celebrating a Jewish event, so how about a Jewish theme? It’ll feel right. It won’t be hokey, contrived, pretentious, or in bad taste.
2. Yiddishe Cup is good. They’ve played throughout the country, Toledo to Tampa, Erie to El Paso. People sometimes pay them a lot to get on airplanes and play at colleges and private parties.
3. The band gets all the generations up, from toddlers to grandparents. Your party isn’t just for 13 year olds. Nobody feels left out. And Yiddishe Cup uses a dance leader, so you don’t have to know any "steps."
4. During the meal the musicians stroll, kind of like mariachis at a Mexican restaurant. You can request songs. It’s fun.
5. Yiddishe Cup isn’t too loud. Guests can actually talk to each other.
6. Yiddishe Cup can play American music and involve you and your friends in games like limbo, hoola hoop, Coke-Pepsi and parachute.
7. You won't be the only kid with Yiddishe Cup. The group is one of the most popular bands in the Midwest.
8. That’s nice. But you want a DJ! OK, we hear you: Yiddishe Cup can periodically play CDs of "Electric Slide," "YMCA," "Celebration," whatever…instant DJ!