Jesus held on the cross with nails in his hands

Wait till your DD learns in some countries they still have volunteers who get crucified every Easter with real nails going through the palms of their hands.

The crucifixion bit doesn’t bother me - but the bullshit about being brought back from the dead absolutely does. For my 5 yr old it came at a time he’d lost someone v close and he was very upset by it. Kids that age shouldn’t be taught nonsense.

Nails through hands would be pointless as the weight of the body would cause the hands to rip apart. Nails were hammered through wrists and ankle bones instead

Sorry but...phobia of wrists? You couldn't look at a wrist without shaking/crying/having a panic attack, or running out of rooms full of people wearing T-shirts?

You didn't 😁

Then I definitely agree with you that this was unnecessary.

"It's just religion" is a really daft response, too.

My gob is truly smacked 😮

Holy Week/ Easter is the most important part of the Christian calendar. I'm staggered that anyone can grow up in this country (where it's the official religion and where state schools have to hold 'broadly Christian' assemblies) and not understand that this is what children learn.

Have we really reached the point where grown adults think it's all about bunnies and eggs?

DT’s would have been shocked at that age - as a family we’re atheists, they hadn’t been to church and didn’t go to a British school so religious studies weren’t on the curriculum (separation of church and state).

This oisses me off!! You can tell stories without being graphic to children ... I agree with someone above who said religious porn ... want to talk about pain and graphically that's unnecessary - little kids don't need to know that!!
I'd make that clear to my school, professionally and politely, that where is the necessity to be so graphic about things that horrify small children ... in movies they wouldn't show that in a 'U' rate movie, probably a 15 ... bloody pricky teachers 🤡🤡🤡🤬🤬🤬🤬

I was brought up catholic and remember doing the stages of the cross in the infants.

My DD didn't even go a religious school, but they done about this in infants. Her storyboard said 'the guards battered jesus' 😂 with a drawn picture of them, giving jesus what for.

Easter IS about eggs and bunnies and new life. The Christian religion purloined it for its own ends. It is an ancient pagan festival celebrating the new life that spring brings.

DD is 7 and I remember feeling the same way as you at the time. She was so innocent and I thought it was so graphic. She was very interested in it at the time but is very blasé about it now! No lasting damage. “Nailed to a cross? Whatever!”

Easter really is about eggs and rabbits. If anyone would like the history looks up the fertility goddess Eostre. Stick with the eggs and bunnies OP.

@PrincessTeaSet i wasn’t questioning whether the crucifixion was real. I have no idea.

I was questioning whether an adult in the U.K. would be really shocked and surprised that crucifixion had been mentioned in their children’s school.

My 4 and 6 year olds loved the story - they love gory things (hopefully they won't burn in hell 😂) I don't think it's too young. All kids are different and most won't be upset at a story like this

It is gross - I really detest this death cult aspect of Christianity - but more than anything else I hate that we inflict this on small chidlren.

Should we take 4 year old children and describe cluster bombs, electric chairs, poison gas? - I don't think so. But it is OK to talk about such barbarism in the name of religion.

If they don't fully grasp it what's the problem?

You're being helluva precious about this.

It's something every kid in every Christian country knows, and presumably close to none of them are scarred by nails, hands or lengths of 2x4.

Lots of history is gruesome - Roman gladiators, Egyptian eunuchs, Viking warriors ...

It's what we were all taught when we were little, probably including the teacher, but yes when you think about it it is odd we tell little kids about someone being painfully tortured to death.

When they're dead!!

Grow up? OP's child is 5/6 🙄🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤣

I had a phobia of wrists for all of my childhood and into my 30s and I know a lot of other people with similar stories due to the imagery around as a child.

Bunnies came around the same time as Jesus. Rabbits aren't a native species, they were brought in by the Romans.🐰🐇

But yeah, eggs have been around forever.🥚

My child came home from nursery and asked me why Jesus had got nailed to a cross. Utterly inappropriate thing for preschool children to be learning about, and I made my feelings known very strongly.

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Absolutely hilarious.

She's also going to get taught that King Harold got shot in the eye and Henry VIII beheaded 2 of his wives.

Wait til they get to 9-11.

How's she going to cope with the actual news?!

You'd love our Catholic school. Next week and every year in Holy Week the kids will be doing "stations of the cross" which is a prayer reflecting on the experiences of Jesus as he carries the cross, is crucified dies and is buried. The prayer is based on the pictures exhibited round the school hall (permanently). These are pictures actually painted by the older kids representing the different things the bible teaches about Jesus' journey to Calvary.

To try and be useful here you can always say "but he came back and it didn't hurt him anymore!"