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?

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

@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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 🤡🤡🤡🤬🤬🤬🤬

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).

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?

Then I definitely agree with you that this was unnecessary.

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

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 😁

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

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.

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.

Yes, do speak to the teacher if it's been too much.

Our DS had recurring, quite distressing nightmares about being "put in a cave when I'm dead" after learning about the Easter story at school. We had him up at all hours crying and worrying about dying, and especially about being left alone in a cave. He's not a particularly emotional child, but the Eater story really got to him for some reason!

I was brought up catholic, went to mass every Sunday annd holy day, and personally I actually was traumatised by it, as it gave me nightmares and I once broke down in mass crying. I was five or six. I also cried during Jesus Christ Superstar! Some children are more sensitive than others. Or maybe I am just an OG snowflake.

dd goes to a catholic school and brought a bible home the other day. I opened it at a random page and there was a whole section on men’s discharge and women’s discharge and how unclean it was. There’s some odd stuff in the bible. The nailing hands business is the least of it and at the end of the day they will be learning all sorts of gruesome things when it comes to history lessons. Keeps them interested 😆

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That would be the Spring Equinox. I was of course referring to the Christian origin of Easter which is the problem being experienced by the OP

And all those wondrously gruesome saints and stigmatics. My convent education has been a huge advantage to me in art museums. I’m always the one consulted on which saint is traditionally depicted carrying her severed breasts on a plate.

Ummm why would children ever have to learn that 😂😂

I had the same nightmares!

Command strips?

@Bigwelshlamb points for adding an extra mumsnetty dimension to an already quite mumsnetty thread!

The Romans were in Britain before Jesus was even a twinkle in gods eye.

And hares have been kicking around these shores for thousands of years so what we assume are bunnies might have been hares 👀

I remember this at my infant school, particularly the bit where the other children turned to me and said “you’re Jewish - you killed Jesus”. First time I was really really confused and felt really bad/guilty about my religion.

Should have used command strips instead.