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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a Christian.  I'm even a &lt;gasp&gt; Southern Baptist.  I only learned as an adult that Advent has any religious significance and I still couldn't tell you exactly what it is.

As a kid I had three Advent Calendars.  One was my mother's childhood calendar (clearly going back more than 20 years).  I think it was a Christmas circus - no religious significance.  I also had one that was a snowy village picture and it did have religious ties (I think the last door opened showed the Holy family).  My third one was a long piece of felt with a candy cane tied with yarn for each day leading up to Christmas.  The thrill in each case was to do "something special" each night.  I don't even like peppermint.  While the candy canes were automatically passed to my mother to enjoy, I loved untying them from the banner.

I can understand why you wouldn't want a countdown to Christmas.  While the advent calendar can be religious (I picked out a manger scene for my kids), in most cases it's something secular leading up to the secular part of the holiday.  I think a child could get the same enjoyment from doing any sort of countdown to anything.  Somebody mentioned doing a chocolate a day (sounds a lot better than candy canes).  I think that would be great, but it would be even better if there were some specific action/ceremony (untying it from a string of chocolates, or opening a special chocolate box, etc), because I think it's the "event" of doing something that makes it special.  [/quote]

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