Reply to Fun diwali activities ?

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Fun diwali activities ?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not OP but I have toddlers and love these suggestions! I really want to prioritize Indian celebrations as they grow up - take a day or two off work so we can prepare for Puja in a relaxed manner. And spend a couple weekends before doing holiday-related arts and crafts to make those special memories. [/quote]

My kids grew up here, so we celebrate both the Indian and American festivals.  My kids love 4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.  We celebrate it in a not-religious manner and concentrate of the food, decoration, entertaining, gift giving etc.   We  have a large group of Indian friends from different regions, so we all celebrate one or two of our favorite festivals in a big way and our friends join us for potluck.

Some of the things that we have adopted and given it a Indian twist is for the kids - Diwali gift exchange, and making and hanging diwali ornaments. 
We have also created some diwali traditions like throwing native wild flower seeds in  a meadow near our house and also hanging some bird feeders for the fall and winter. [/quote]

Why would you strip away the religious aspect? How whitewashed and bland...[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics