What are good presents for the 1st year birthday?

I'm going to my friend's child's 1st year birthday party. What would be a good gift?

The Korean's first birthday is very important. Some people give money in a white envelope (how much?) and others give presents (what?).

I suggest baby pajamas (鞎勱赴 ah-gi 雮措车 neh-bok) or baby clothes. My mother has been giving many nehboks as gifts to Korean children's first year birthdays. She would buy from twelve months to twenty-four months, so the child can wear them as he or she gets a little bigger. Clothings are more popular these days. I've heard conversations between my mother and her friends on how nehboks are better and more useful than giving toys.

teddy

anything for a baby, toys are the best ask the shop assistant

stufftoys! especially really soft ones, kids love those kind of gifts:]

I got my cousin a dancing Elmo for like 7 bucks and she loves it to death, and takes it everywhere she goes now

Your child won't really care or understand properly so anything will do. Just being there and making the effort is what counts. maybe a teddy

When my daughter turned 1 she liked the boxes things came in, so maybe blocks or something she can crawl through. Or a little doll stroller to push!

they are not likely to remember there first birthday so perhaps by a keep sake gift, a present which can be kept for them for years to come

find out what he/she likes and buy it if he/she cant talk though then buy him/her something like a shapesorter

bibs. Parents go through so many of them.

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A nice biiig photo album to stuff all the baby's pics in.

apparently...in some war deranged countries, kids are being given how to become a terrorist dvds!!

I vote for teddy too......especially as they are on the verge of extinction!

Rubber ducky ;every kid should have a rubber ducky.

how much is your budget? a treasury bill would be nice. the kid will get to appreciate that years later.

The website "gifts.com" gives great ideas on possible gifts. Go to this website:
http://www.gifts.com/ideas/baby

and it will give you the top 10 baby gifts, etc. Good luck and I promise it will help you make the right choice.

First birthdays are hard. The child doesnt really understand the gift thing yet. A good gift would be a savings bond. My childrent received some at first and second birthdays. Another gift, even to go with the savings bond, would be a teddy(for a boy or girl), or a plush doll(for a girl). A few years back, I opened a savings account for a friends grand-daughter. I put the savings account in the baby's name and the grandmothers name. Both the grandmother and the mother thought this was a good gift.... :-)

Books. Its never too early to start reading. Pop up books delight children and it gives the parents quality times with their child. I always read to my children and now that they are in high school, they are big time readers themselves.

for the child''s : a harmles small rubber doll or buzzel is nice.
but
for the friend''s : A dress for the child or collection of bed drapps will be nice

toys, stuffed toys, pictures, baby-chair, baby-cart, walker, clothes, shoes...

if it's a boy buy him a toy car. if a girl then soft toys (teddy..) would be nice

As this has been posted in the Korean section, I'm guessing you want an appropriate gift for a Korean infant. A old traditional custom is a gold ring for a baby but my Korean husband tells me it's now clothes or money (cash).

Just give what you can afford. lolol x

it's a traditional gift for korean babies to be given money... i know at dol...it is also a tradition to give gold jewelry for the baby, tiny rings or bracelet or charms

and to my belief, NEVER accept nor GIVE or BUY this :
- a pastel pink blanket with duckies, pink symbolizes the plague and that duckies are the harbingers of doom.

I would give cash in an envelop. You can't go wrong with that since you don't know what the parents really need.

If it's a close friend, 100,000 won. Otherwise 50,000 won will do.

A small gold ring is a traditional gift. You can go to almost any jeweler and tell them it is for a baby's "tol" (first b-day) and they will show you.

A gold ring is traditional, but nowadays gold is so expensive that it's not given often.
At least 50,000 won cash for the baby's parents is common.