Holiday Arts and Crafts
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Anonymous
| So I do a lot of arts and crafts with my charges. This is our first Christmas together (so excited)! I know that both families celebrate and love the season but I’m curious if it’s okay to display all holidays (Christmas, kwanza and Hanukkah). I worked in daycare for many years, so we talked about and participated in activities that celebrated all holidays- plus, there were families who celebrated only one of the holidays. So my question is, should I do Activities with all 3 or just stick to Christmas since that’s what the families celebrate? |
Anonymous
| The kids are 17 months and 18 months. |
Anonymous
| Only an extremely Conservative Republican would be opposed to crafts from all three (the whole inane "war on Christmas" crap). |
Anonymous
Ha! They’re definitely not and I’m sure they would be happy, which makes me kinda answer my own question but wanted to hear feedback from other nannies and parents. |
Anonymous
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PP, don’t be an ass and make it political. I know plenty of ultra liberal atheists who would be pissed off if you dared say “bless you” after they sneezed.
Ask the parents. We are not them. We can’t tell you how they’d feel. |
Anonymous
| I think it would be a great teaching moment about how others celebrate the holidays. Go for it! |
Anonymous
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Ask the parents.
This may or may not be important to them but if you somehow offend or upset them it would be bad. Much safer to ask first than to risk treading into territory that could be concerning to someone. If you ask first then no harm no foul. I would welcome the kind of thing you're talking about, but I would also want you to ask me about it in advance, rather than just discovering it when I came home one day. - MB |
Anonymous
No, you do not know plenty of ultra liberal atheists who would be pissed off if you said "bless you" after they sneezed. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Funny. I'm neither conservative NOR Republican and yet do not want to display things celebrating other religions besides mine in my home. |
Anonymous
Why? |
Anonymous
I am not the PP, but agree that being accepting of other’s beliefs is not the same as essentially celebrating their holidays. Here are some of my reasons: Confusing for kids Devalues my actual beliefs by equating all religions as being interchangeable craft opportunities Confusing or offensive to friends and family who stop by Cultural Appropriation We are christian, and we’d be happy to have our kids attend, say, a child-oriented event meant to teach about Diwali or Kwanzaa or another holiday, and if they made a craft there then I would chalk that up to being part of them learning about another religion/culture through an event put on by members of that religion/culture and would display it alongside their other non-holiday art. I would find it very odd for my non-jewish nanny to make a menorah craft with my non-jewish kids to display alongside our Christmas tree. See the difference? |
Anonymous
+1 - Besides this, you won't run out of Christmas-crafts for this age anyway. So stick to the holiday the family celebrates (unless you celebrate a different one and want to share). |
Anonymous
We are Christian but I totally disagree. Nothing devalues our faith and we respect that people worship God differently. I would never have friends who find my Christian child making a menorah offensive! Don't your kids know non Christian children?! My kids are going to learn about other faiths so why not start with crafts? |
Anonymous
| I would be happy is you did crafts of all faiths for the holidays, OP, but clearly others don't feel as I do - so ask the parents. |