Ok people we're in the midst of the holiday season. While everyone is running around being festive are we taking time out to teach our children the true meaning of these holidays. I know so called Christians who wont let their children celebrate Halloween calling it the devil's holiday but have no problem celebrating Thanksgiving or Christmas...
Do our kids really know the truths behind these modern day holidays and do they even care? Are our values and beliefs allowed to be contradicted for a few days out of the year? Do the way we celebrate these holidays coincide with their true origins?
GET AT ME PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!
Most of our children are unaware of the "REASON FOR THE SEASON," due to our indulgence and overwhelming commercialism. It's on US to stress the depth and true meaning of the holidays we choose to celebrate. Education & Respect begin in the home.
ReplyDeleteNOPE, we/I including myself, have not taught our children the true meaning of the holidays. My children are 20 and 12 now, so they know the meanings.When our children are small we don't think about, or maybe it's just a few of us, telling them what and why we celebrate Christmas and Thanksgiving. Then, when they get older we, often don't think about it and continue doing what we've been doing. Buying gifts, being festive, cooking, and gathering, we don't sit down and teach them, why.
ReplyDeleteThey probably wouldn't care as much because all they're thinknin about is getting gifts and toys, and money. And, if they don't get those things, we can't really explain that that's not the meaning of Christmas or why aunties and uncles and all our cousins are coming over and for only two times a year.
The ways we celebrate the holidays should be spent with love ones on a daily basis, but we used Thanksgiving and Christmas to justify that we should make up with and forgive someone that made us mad or did something to us throughout the course of the year. If we do this all year around and buy things from time to time, or just take the time out to share our beliefs and values will not contradict what we ONLY do aound the holidays. Maybe there will be more people doing more for those who are les fortunate to have family at all.