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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get your point, OP. She is ignoring your choice to skip Mother's Day. But for her it's important, and maybe she feels her day is threatened by your treating it as insignificant. She's also steamrolling your decision to have your kids skip it, and she's interfering with your parenting by announcing that for their sake the kids should celebrate the day.

Who is the holiday for: you or your kids? Are you against the idea of the kids learning to take a day to honor you and show they love you? Or do you think the holiday is silly and made up? Did you grow up celebrating Halloween, for example? If not, do your kids still participate in Halloween?[/quote]

Thank you for understanding how steamrolled I feel! Yes my kids do Halloween and Xmas, and I didn't. They do some other things that my DH did not grow up with. We pick and choose. I love Halloween and Xmas because it is all about the children and they are so excited about it. Mother's Day was a non-issue when the kids were small because they were too young to know and I genuinely didn't give a hoot when I got flowers etc. Now they are bigger of course. But they have a good understanding of our cross-cultural household and they don't care one way or the other that it is a meaningless day for me. They are happy to celebrate their grandmother and do so enthusiastically.

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