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Because Fb Easter bragging posts are giving me the rage?

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Missdread · 26/03/2016 22:02

Aarghhh!!! "All ready for my babies in the morning" with picture of ridiculously huge pile of chocolate, sweets, TOYS (WTF? It's not Christmas!), CLOTHES, Easter trees, bunnies and fluffy chicks. I have oodles of these nauseating posts on my Fb feed tonight. AIBU to think Easter is letting your kids eat chocolate for breakfast and that's it? What the heck is WRONG with people?

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IsmellSwell · 27/03/2016 15:40

Yes to Facebook being renamed
BragBook.

As to buying children presents for Easter, as well as or instead of chocolate eggs. No Way. It's silly to start all that.
When mine got older they tried it on and briefly tried to get me to give them money instead of eggs, because their 'friend up the road gets money for Easter'.
I said it's either ''eggs or nothing''
They accepted it.
(There was no way I was starting with all that nonsense.)

Christmas and Birthdays they get presents and/or money.
Easter they get chocolate.
End of horrible mother me Hmm

Tip to mothers with babies and toddlers. Don't get into the whole money/present thing.
Start as you mean to go on.
It's cheaper Wink

fourage · 27/03/2016 15:47

sally I could equally ask why christians are observing pagan festivals.

Strictly speaking easter date is set by the judaic calendar, not the christian one.

Sallyingforth · 27/03/2016 15:59

sally I could equally ask why christians are observing pagan festivals.

Yes you could. As I already said I'm not taking sides.

Catvsworld · 27/03/2016 16:14

We hid five tiny lindor chic Easter bunnies round the garden let 3 year old hunt for them and are having lamb roast

That's its its not Christmas ffs tbh my FB people have not been to bad but there are some offenders

fourage · 27/03/2016 16:15

sally but you find "But it's even more strange when non-Christians celebrate Easter at all".

There is an implication there that non christians shouldn't celebrate Easter, or you are being thick: I suspect the former.

Sallyingforth · 27/03/2016 17:33

I don't know if you're looking for an argument fourage but I'm certainly not.
I simply think that non-Christians might have preferred one of the several non-Christian festivals around this time of year. And my comment about chocolate not being a requisite was addressed to both.

fourage · 27/03/2016 17:38

"I simply think that non-Christians might have preferred one of the several non-Christian festivals around this time of year."

How noble. And ignorant.

zoomtothespoon · 27/03/2016 17:57

Can't stand it. But mainly due to the fact that I have a vomitting bug and can't even look at chocolate at the moment Sad

Tidythatmess · 27/03/2016 17:58

A lot of people I know don't believe in the Christian Easter... We definitely all celebrate Easter though. No church but Spring, nature, bunnies, chocolate, family dinners out...it's fab!!!

On another night, I have also seen a lot of "santa's been" style FB posts today except With Easter eggs and toys etc.

Tidythatmess · 27/03/2016 17:59

On another note*

GarlicShake · 27/03/2016 18:02

Well, they might have preferred one - but they'd have to be very committed. For centuries, being a non-christian got you tortured & killed. That's why knowledge of our own cultural histories are so fuzzy - what with it being lethally dangerous to even talk about them, no-one was writing documentary texts.

The little we do know comes mainly from travelogues written by ancient Romans and Greeks, so may have been somewhat romanticised. Apart from that, we're mainly digging up relics and trying to make them fit a narrative.

GarlicShake · 27/03/2016 18:06

Tidy - Do the parents make little bunny footprints on the hall carpet? With grass or glitter??

fourage · 27/03/2016 18:34

garlic- interesting point about persecution. i live in Scotland. The church banned christmas and easter for 400 years - only becoming a public holiday in the 1950s

Tidythatmess · 27/03/2016 19:08

Lol garlic didn't see any bunny footprints but I will remember that one for next year Grin

lucysnowe · 27/03/2016 20:30

Easter has nothing to do with the church

Easter - Spring festival, as represented by Ishtar (posted by a PP), celebrating the return of life and fertility.

Sorry, according to this that's not right :)

Oestre is interesting but the name may have been made up the Venerable Bede.

Easter has been Christian for 2000 years but I think it's awesome that Easter/Pasques etc happens in the springtime - the resurrection of Christ has extra depth when the Earth is itself being reborn. Anything which adds extra resonance to a story can't be bad and I'll happily scoff down hot cross buns, simnal cake along with choc eggs and the rest :).

With regard to the OP, neither my mum nor MIL agree with Easter eggs (too much sugar) so my poor DC have had to make do with one each. My heart bleeds...

DisappointedOne · 27/03/2016 20:39

The Welsh for Easter is Pasg.........

Marmitelover55 · 27/03/2016 20:46

Thank god my fb feed is devoid of any of this crap.

isitginoclock · 27/03/2016 20:47

YANBU. It's ridiculous. Just scroll on past and think gleefully about how much fun those parents are going to have putting those children to bed tonight.

Eustace2016 · 27/03/2016 20:55

Whilst it is probably wise more people are atheist in the UK than not, it would be a shame if we lost core values - that showing off is not the done thing, that gluttony is a sin, that vanity is bad etc etc. Have we thrown the baby out with the bath water with the demise of religion? Jealousy of others is never a route to happiness in life.

Also chocolate is poison. Anyone showing off about how much sugar they are force feeding their children are basically putting up a sign saying I am a bad parent and I will get as fat as a pig and by the time I am over 40 I will be one of the 60% of people who is fat and I want my children to be main lined sugar and made ill. So anyone showing off piles of chocolate is really just saying what a bad parent they are? Can't you take it at that?

Sallyhasleftthebuilding · 27/03/2016 21:07

Chocolate YES! But no need to brag and post pictures of how many your kids have got. I just don't get people's constant need to try to do better than everyone else on FB... And def no need for presents IMO.

This! People really need to look at their behaviour because this is something we try and teach our kids to not do! Try to be considerate of others and their feelings.

I do get fed up of schools bringing in Easter hunts Easter cards etc ... Think they should butt out!

WorraLiberty · 27/03/2016 21:15

But it's even more strange when non-Christians celebrate Easter at all

No it's not.

The TV has been full of adverts for Easter eggs/hot cross buns etc for ages. The shops have been stacked high with lovely looking Easter eggs.

The kids on my school crossing where I'm a lollipop lady, came out of school on Thursday, clutching Easter baskets they'd made for their parents.

Not all of those kids and their families are Christians, in fact probably 40% of them are Muslims.

But we all live in Britain, where Easter is everywhere so there's nothing strange about it at all.

m0therofdragons · 27/03/2016 21:29

I have no issue with pics of people having easter fun. For me it's the pics of piles of stuff that I just find vulgar. If you want to show off then show off about the fun you're having with your dc not the pile of stuff in the living room.

Flashbangandgone · 27/03/2016 21:41

I am pissed off (as an atheist, please note) by the intolerant, offensive references to Christian aspects of Easter which, if they were said about another religion, would be roundly (and absolutely rightly) condemned on this board.

^
This. There are some posters that seem to delight in every opportunity to rubbish Christianity and everything about it in particularly glib and dismissive manner... Yes, they have the right to, and I agree with a lot of the atheist critique of traditional Christian belief, but the constant antagonism is tiring. It's like suffering the inverse of a street fire and brimstone preacher.

If a Christian were to post in a similar vein about atheism they would be rightly taken apart!

SecretsAndStuff21 · 28/03/2016 00:23

I have to request none buys my DD a chocolate egg as she literally gags at the sight of the stuff as do I ( a recovered chocoholic). I think it's a family thing as several relatives can't eat it as the texture makes them feel sick.