AIBU - frozen instead of Christmas

[Rudolphanddancer]

Basically my daughter is currently a long-term patient in hospital and we will most likely be here for Christmas , I was devastated as it's her first and we are big On Christmas.

Anyway, the other day there was Olaf and Anna paintings in the cupboards in the playrooms.
And when I said Awhh they cute , the play specialist informed me that Christmas theme had been changed to frozen theme to avoid offence.

Am I being unreasonable to think this isn't really fair on the children who are here and want Xmas.
To avoid offending people your offending others ?

How deep does this run? No christmas tree or Father Christmas?

Rubbish - no one is offended by Christmas - she's either lying or a shit stirrer

Aren't they celebrating Christmas at all? How do people figure celebrating it causes offense?

welcome to MN by the way :)

I'm not new - name change
But Thankyou ha

The tree is apparently down to the deselection of the ward manager an nope she was actually not pleased with it either so don't see why she would be stirring.

They will have a frozen part with elsa instead of Santa.

So who has made this decision? Whatever the decision is.

Didn't you ask who was likely to take offence at the notion that December 25th is, you know, Christmas????

I teach a class or mainly Muslim children at least half put up a tree and give Christmas presents. Never had one be offended that we do a nativity play and have a Christmas tree and party with Santa. No problem having a frozen theme but you can't get away from the fact that Christmas is Christmas whether you choose to celebrate it or not.

I think a Disney theme is far more offensive.

Sorry to hear about your daughter. I work for the NHS and this goes against all the respecting diversity policies so I think whoever you spoke to was ill informed. Am sure if you raise it as a complaint then it will be resolved quickly.

Complain to the Daily Mail. Your play specialist can have their photo taken in front of the hospital, arms crossed and looking sad. War on christmas!

Really?!

In many ways frozen has a better message for girls than the Christmas story, at least as traditionally told. ( Puts on flame proof jacket)

Obviously peace on earth and goodwill to all is a wonderful message, but I would rather princess Anna as a role mode than the Virgin Mary...

Ps very sorry to hear your dd is in hospital for her first Christmas. My dd was in hospital for her first so I know how dreadful it can feel.

HOpe you and your dd enjoy many future Christmases at home together. You will appreciate them more and she won't remember this one.

aherdofmoms virgin Mary is obviously not a virgin. She just lied about sleeping around.

3yo DD only knows about Santa, elves and reindeers. The Jesus story doesn't seem to be big these days. I don't mind Anna and Elsa either. It's nice and wintery to me.

Why would Christmas offend muslims? They believe in Jesus as well just as a Prophet rather than the son of God. Political correctness gone barmy, the play specialist hasn't done their interfaith reading. Idiot.

And is there a traditional version vs a modern one? I thought there is only one version on the Jesus story.

I'm sure you're in another group I'm in. Everything is the same, play specialist saying can't have Christmas because of offence, tree down to ward manager, only it was a Winter theme in that story, not Frozen.

I am trusting that those poster who have experience in hospitals and have posted that this wouldn't be true, are correct. I think the person you spoke to has got this wrong

Hand painted frozen pictures? I hope Disney don't find out... They'll get sued quicker than you can build a snowman...

As a PP has mentioned Muslims don't believe that Jesus was the son of god hence not believing the Christmas story. There was uproar in school last year when there wasn't a Christmas mufty day. A lot of the Muslim kids had Christmas jumpers and outfits they wanted to wear and the parents were begging us to allow it (we had nothing against it we just hadn't thought it was necessary).
People are far to worried about offending others when they really are not bothered.