4th Birthday Wishes

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4th birthday wishes can be tricky — since 4 year olds are neither babies nor big kids.

Here, nothing’s tricky. It's easy to find the right birthday messages for your 4-year-old birthday boy or girl.

All the 4th birthday greetings on this page have all the ingredients the Moms and Dads of 4 year olds look for: just the right amount of humor, joy, wonder and innocence any 4-year-old boy or girl can relate to.

How to choose 4th birthday wishes

You could probably get away with choosing any type of birthday message for a 4 year old. After all, many 4 year olds can't read very well or at all, so it's tempting to avoid all the fuss that comes with selecting the right birthday greeting for them.

I think you should always go to the trouble of picking out birthday greetings, no matter how young or old someone is, because, like my Grade 4 teacher always used to say, "When you cheat, you're really cheating nobody but yourself." The same applies to birthday messages.

When you take the easy way out and choose any birthday greeting, you're not only cheating the birthday boy or girl out of a heartfelt message — you're also cheating yourself out of the gratification that comes from choosing a birthday wish that truly expresses your feelings. To me, that's the one of the greatest things about birthday messages: they give you a chance to show you care.

The best way to pick 4th birthday wishes comes down to two things:

• First, you should think about what you want to say to the parents of the 4-year-old birthday girl or boy (since, as I mentioned above, he or she probably can't read very well or at all).
• Second, remember that this bundle of joy is not an infant anymore and is fast becoming a little person with more depth than you might think.

With these two thoughts in mind, it will be slightly easier to pick the right 4th birthday wishes.

There are, of course, different types of 4 year olds, so what's the best approach to take? It may help to keep in mind what 4 year olds need to know about themselves and the world.

According to Alicia Bayer, blogger and the creator of magicalchildhood.com, your typical 4 year old "should know that the world is magical and that so is she. She should know that she's wonderful, brilliant, creative, compassionate and marvelous. She should know that it's just as worthy to spend the day outside making daisy chains, mud pies and fairy houses as it is to practice phonics. Scratch that—way more worthy."

This is from Alicia Bayer's article, What Should A 4-Year-Old Know?, which is on Huffingtonpost.com. You can read the entire article right here.

What Alicia Bayer wants us to know (and what you should see in a birthday message) is that 4 year olds need to hear that they are wonderful, brilliant, creative, compassionate and marvelous.

Message Guy Picks

I love the messages below. Any 4 year old would love it, too. All three 4th birthday wishes below are my top picks because it makes turning 4 such a glorious celebration.

After all, how many other times in the life of a child can a kid just have fun, without worrying about the consequences? Not many. This birthday wish gives your 4-year-old birthday girl or boy the permission to be, well, 4.

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