Do you "celebrate" St. Patrick's Day with your kids?

[Anonymous]

We definitely celebrate and my son loves it because it's also his birthday!

[Anonymous]

Nope. Don't do anything except wear green to avoid being pinched!

[Anonymous]

My sons preschool went all out for St. Patrick's day one year, and my son loved it so much that I've (begrudgingly at first) carried on the tradition.

We don't go crazy for other holidays (I'm not religious) or do the elf. But sometimes something just moves you to make a holiday extra special.

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Anonymous wrote:Geez - we're about to go thru ivf treatments and stuff like this terrifies me. I feel like we're barely going to have time to raise a kid right. But now parents are supposed to do over the top bullshit for d-level holidays like st Patrick's day??!?! When I was a kid, we wore something green or other kids pinched you. That was it. What is this bs about leprechaun traps, gold coins and messing up rooms? are there other weird holidays that were not a thing when I was a kid that are major now? I'm a gen x'er.

It takes less than five minutes to flip over some pillows, leave a little gift (gold chocolate coins), and squirt some green food coloring in the toilet. This is perhaps the least stressful thing you will do as a parent.

I'm all about the magic of childhood and making a big deal about Santa, the tooth fairy and the Easter Bunny. I've never heard of doing these things. Why are you doing them? Are you pretending to be a leprechaun? I never thought they were real and neither do my kids. They wore green yesterday and that's it. I don't know of any parent that does this. It must be another DCUM myth.

It's the same as the other holidays you mentioned, so why not?

If you sprinkle fairy dust for the tooth fairy, then why not put green food coloring in the toilet?

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easy enough to do

You know, as an Irish-American, the idea that celebrating St Patrick's day means putting food coloring in the toilet bowl comes across as rather insulting. It's great that it's "easy to do", but it's pretty far afield from anything Irish. Watch a parade, wear green, listen to music, eat some soda bread, that might be a better approach.

Do you say the same thing about Santa and the Easter Bunny being offensive to Christians? It's the same thing.

Not that poster but it IS weird to color toilet water. That's just weird. And nobody does that for Christmas...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does it count that we went to McDonald's and has a shamrock shake? Then yes I do.

Oh yes! Scottish/Egyptian PP couple here! I always get us a shamrock shake this time of year! Lol

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Anonymous wrote:Geez - we're about to go thru ivf treatments and stuff like this terrifies me. I feel like we're barely going to have time to raise a kid right. But now parents are supposed to do over the top bullshit for d-level holidays like st Patrick's day??!?! When I was a kid, we wore something green or other kids pinched you. That was it. What is this bs about leprechaun traps, gold coins and messing up rooms? are there other weird holidays that were not a thing when I was a kid that are major now? I'm a gen x'er.

If you're barely going to have enough time to raise a kid right, why have one?

No one is mandating these activities but the special days do make a childhood memorable.

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Anonymous wrote:Geez - we're about to go thru ivf treatments and stuff like this terrifies me. I feel like we're barely going to have time to raise a kid right. But now parents are supposed to do over the top bullshit for d-level holidays like st Patrick's day??!?! When I was a kid, we wore something green or other kids pinched you. That was it. What is this bs about leprechaun traps, gold coins and messing up rooms? are there other weird holidays that were not a thing when I was a kid that are major now? I'm a gen x'er.

It takes less than five minutes to flip over some pillows, leave a little gift (gold chocolate coins), and squirt some green food coloring in the toilet. This is perhaps the least stressful thing you will do as a parent.

I'm all about the magic of childhood and making a big deal about Santa, the tooth fairy and the Easter Bunny. I've never heard of doing these things. Why are you doing them? Are you pretending to be a leprechaun? I never thought they were real and neither do my kids. They wore green yesterday and that's it. I don't know of any parent that does this. It must be another DCUM myth.

It's the same as the other holidays you mentioned, so why not?

If you sprinkle fairy dust for the tooth fairy, then why not put green food coloring in the toilet?

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easy enough to do

You know, as an Irish-American, the idea that celebrating St Patrick's day means putting food coloring in the toilet bowl comes across as rather insulting. It's great that it's "easy to do", but it's pretty far afield from anything Irish. Watch a parade, wear green, listen to music, eat some soda bread, that might be a better approach.

Do you say the same thing about Santa and the Easter Bunny being offensive to Christians? It's the same thing.

Not that poster but it IS weird to color toilet water. That's just weird. And nobody does that for Christmas...

I'm not talking about the toilet water, I'm talking about having the leperchaun come by and drop off little gifts or candy (we did those gold chocolate coins). Same thing as the Easter Bunny IMO.

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Anonymous wrote:Geez - we're about to go thru ivf treatments and stuff like this terrifies me. I feel like we're barely going to have time to raise a kid right. But now parents are supposed to do over the top bullshit for d-level holidays like st Patrick's day??!?! When I was a kid, we wore something green or other kids pinched you. That was it. What is this bs about leprechaun traps, gold coins and messing up rooms? are there other weird holidays that were not a thing when I was a kid that are major now? I'm a gen x'er.

As a parent of two, I highly recommend you reconsider having children at all given your level of stress and anger at this. You don't sound like you have the patience to deal with sleepless baby nights or helping a kid learn to read. I'm going on 2 1/2 months of sleeping max four hours at a time. I'd love to have my biggest concern being celebrating the way others on this thread are.

[Anonymous]

Kids have fun wearing green. I dyed their milk green in the morning and we had green Rice Krispie treats. I don't anything elaborate although I know families who do with leprechaun traps, gold chocolate coins and decorations.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids have fun wearing green. I dyed their milk green in the morning and we had green Rice Krispie treats. I don't anything elaborate although I know families who do with leprechaun traps, gold chocolate coins and decorations.

Note that some people on this thread think your green milk and Rice Krispies are "elaborate."