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[quote=Anonymous]I was raised in a household that was not actively religious, but we read a lot. I read a lot of Bible stories right alongside Siddhartha stories and Greek myths. My personal feeling is that many of the parables in the Bible are not much different in a narrative capacity than many of the fairy tales that later become Disney movies. They teach general and specific codes of behavior and ethics in a way that is slightly less abstract and easier for children to understand. The higher level religious aspects are not things that I would personally be able to explain to my 3 year old anyway, since I do not come from a religious background. So at Christmas time, we talk about a variety of things. My mom sent a nativity set, so we talked about the birth of Jesus and how it's important to be generous and loving to everyone. We talked about Santa in the same context. We talked more specifically about generous and loving things we do as a family related to charity and also just the way we treat each other and appreciate each other. It was not much different than the conversations we have about those things year round, but there are slightly more specific tools (that are Christian) at the end of December, so we used those tools as a jumping off point.[/quote]
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