Religious Holidays?
I'm putting together my parent handbook and am wondering how some of you deal with religion in general. I do not want to emphasis any religious holidays or religious observances (prayer or other events that will distract from other children or require one-on-one attention). I feel all religious/spiritual needs are personal and should be between parent and child. Thank you
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Originally Posted by DannieB: |
Originally Posted by DannieB: I do celebrate the holidays mostly because I have grandchildren and I just like the holidays although I don't do anything religious obviously. I did have one parent who was a Christian but did not celebrate Halloween. She told me and so I didn't do much for Halloween. We just did fall activities and they made paper pumpkins and spiders but we didn't get into witches or ghosts or things like that. I just did it as a courtesy. It was pretty easy to avoid. I had a parent or two invite me to their church over the years but I just said "Thanks, but I'm not really religious." Then no more was said about it. I figured I would just deal with each individual case if and when it came up. Nothing in my rules. Laurel |
Thanks Laurel. I'm an atheist too, and I appreciate your honesty. I think I'm overthinking the situation. My original thoughts were to say something about celebrating the changing of the seasons in hopes of avoiding specific holidays. I have a little fellow who has brought up god a few times and it's obvious someone has put in his head it's god above all things. I usually bring him back to what we're working on with a question related to our theme and it's worked so far.
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Originally Posted by DannieB: Laurel |
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