Everybody has a birthday. Mang children in other countries celebrate their birthdays like children in the United Srates. The have a birthday cake, gifts, and sometimes a birthday party fir friends. Friends and a family gather around a table with a birthday cake no it. The sing 'Happy birthday to you.' Two American sisters wrote this song in 1893, but people still sing this song today!
The birthday cake usually has lighted cabdle on it, one candle for each year if your life. The birthday child makes a wish and then blows out all the cabdles.
If the child blows out the candle in one breath, the wish will come true. Other countres have different customs.