Society & Culture

Where has Christmas gone

Society & Culture

Posted by: Mustang17

27th Nov 2010 06:58am

The Child Centre where my daughter-in-law works will not be celebrating Christmas with the children as there are families who attend who dont believe in it. Last time I checked this was Australia and I grew up going to school and making Christmas gifts and easter bonnets as a way of life.
To me this is a tradition of the Australian way of life which we now have to change for a minority. It's not like we would go to their country of origin and demand that they celebrate our way of life.


Chris
  • 18th Dec 2010 04:20pm

I work in a childcare centre and we still decorate the centre for Christmas and have a Christmas party. We see no problem with doing this as a majority of the children come from christian backgrounds and we do not bring any religion into it with the children. Has religion is for the parents to teach they children if they want, not a child care centres responsibility (nor do we want to). We treat it as any other holiday and if there are any holidays that other traditions or cultures want us to celebrate we are willing to do with the parents help as long as no religion is bought into it. We would do this as it is good for children to learn about other cultures and we want the children in our centre the grow up with an open mind.


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