Jesus held on the cross with nails in his hands

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DD5 is in year 1 and has been learning about Jesus at school. Great stuff in the spirit of Easter.

The RE teacher told the class how Jesus was NAILED to the cross.

This is quite graphic for a little girl who believes that the Easter bunny will leave eggs in our garden.

Should I tell school that this is too much info for little ears?

I had this convo with someone recently. We wouldn't show children photos of someone being hanged. Yet so often we see fairly gruesome pictures / statues of Jesus dying nailed to a cross. I really don't like it.

OP, if you're not careful you'll find yourself the subject of a talk radio programme tomorrow morning as the main feature in its latest instalment on snowflakery on acid.

I'm agnostic these days but was raised Presbyterian and learned about all this in Sunday school. Try not to worry, she's too little to really understand how awful the idea of crucifixion is, even if it's a bit of a shock for her.

But also don't let the fun vacuums on this thread put you off bunnies and eggs and chocolate either! Fancy telling someone to "grow up" when talking about things a literal small child enjoys. Mumsnet never ceases to amaze me.

When my son was 6 I overheard him pretending to crucify his brother against a wall, using a toy Black and Decker electric drill.

His brother, then age 5, complied quite happily but then ended the game by jumping away from the wall and shouting “Anyway, I’m alive again!”. I found myself thinking that the school had done a good job in getting the story across!

They are now 15 & 14 and I promise you that no long-term harm has been done!

If he had been hanged, would there now be ropes in churches with a body hanging from it?

Easier was originally a pagan festival that celebrated spring and new life. So yes it kinda is about bunnies and eggs.

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'Well the teacher can't really say they stuck him up there with velcro*

That made me laugh out loud!!!!

Reminds me of going to my nephew's wedding a few years ago... Lord of the Dance was on the order of service. Unfortunately whoever typed it up was either spectacularly dim, or had never sung it...

'They whipped and they stripped and they hung me on high,
And left me there on a cross to DRY..'

We did not make it through the hymn with a staight face....

Easter was originally a germanic pagan festival celebrating spring, fertility and renewal.

Bunnies and eggs > than jesus and crosses

Penny for the guy?

Penny for the guy?

This is an excuse for my favourite Gesthemane. It does depict cruxifixion pictures though

Command strips?

To be fair Easter is about sacrifice... That's it. She'll get over it I promise... Some of my kids did a bit of Catholic school, stations of the cross etc and my DH did all the way to Sixth Form without any Jesus related PTSD.

When ds was 4 he wanted to know all about Easter , I told him a child friendly mild version but at school he asked and got told the story and then other kids added more details. When we had hot cross buns he said ‘we should have jam doughnuts instead because of all the blood oozing out of Jesus’ hands ‘ I hadn’t been expecting that at all!

I'm Catholic and my three have recently made their first Holy Communion. The littlest can tell you that Christ suffered a scourging, a bloody sweat, a crown of thorns and was nailed to the cross. It was a highly unpleasant experience where Christ suffered for our sins. So I'm not quite sure how it can be taught in any other way or it entirely mitigates the message.

For what it's worth, no one in the First Holy Communion class seems very perturbed or disturbed by it all.

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!"

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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.

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.🥚

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.

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

When they're dead!!

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.

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

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.

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.