To be a bit peeved that DD aged 4 has been told at school that FC does not exist?

[geisha]

She was told by a class mate who is a Jehovah's Witness? Whilst I undertand and respect the belief of the JW class mate, I feel a bit that she told my DD this. I don't know how JW families address the Christmas issue with their children?..... I do appreciate that even if the class mate's mum had asked her to be a bit discrete with the other children about the FC issue, the child may find this difficult as you do tend to say it as you see it at 4! I explained to DD that FC comes to all children who believe in him and celebrate Christmas but she is a bit suspicious which I think is a shame at 5! DD is very clear that the aforementioned child does not celebrate Christmas and that has been mentioned several times but the fact that FC doesn't exist? Actually I probably am BU but I think it's a shame!

a new life shouldbe celebrated whatever religion you are imo

birthdays annually are not celebrated as at one of the 1s birthday parties, john the baptiosed (iirc??) was beheaded.

present days when we were growing up were in nov (around when our parents got engaged) and march (weddinf anniversary)

no we do celebrate new babies being born, but not birthdays as the first one was celebrated by beheading john the bapitiser!I dont mind at all and your right im not a kil joy

but it wasn't one of the first birthday parties was it? just a party written about in the bible.

i have real problems with the whole 'itsays this in the bible so we don't do xyz'

it says all sorts of crazy things in the bible doesn't it?
how do you pick and choose which of the things should apply? which should be adhered to? do you eat pork? shellfish?

we dont pick and choose parts of the bible, but i guess thats why we are seem to be extreme! pork and shellfish arent forbidden (although im not allowed either for other reasons) but some rules are were in the old mosiac law which was nailed as a sign that it was no longer revelant.

Lisa is kindly answering a question, not asking you to belive in what she does believe janitor.

we have pressie day in aug for our girls, which is our wedding anniversery so a big day for all

op you can be a upset about it but it seems little can be done about it... there are many times in life that you may feel that the choice you had to tell your child about certain things is taken from us(my mom keeps going on about her not wanting us to know about the birds and the bees till we were in i dont know 20's. in the case of fc existant you dont want to lie to your child...in my house if im asked a question by my dc i try to answer honestly...now if her friend has said no fc and you sat down and had a big discussion of there being a fc ...well in a yr or 2 she will know that it was a lie...go with the flow if ur dd is not that concerned with the comment of the jw friend let it pass as a previous poster said(sorry new here so will catch on to naming yous. though if she is upset maybe suggest that different children have different beliefs and the fc represents diferent things...my 6 yr old told me this today(after her nativity play) that santa is like the kings that followed the star to find jesus... i think that was a great comparison considering we are not christians. my children have great respect for others religions because i tell them not force my religion on them ..we havent a xmas tree up and sam down the road has my son was upset but then i pointed out to him that when ds had two days off school to celebrate Eid sam went to school to work so now its his turn to celebrate his faith..my ds is 5 and does believe there is santa and when he asks me if he is real i will tell him what my daughter said... he is real for those who want to believe...good luck with ur dd and make some special memories this xmas that your dd will look back to fondly and not to what a school friend said that yr..

goronline-i do not need to you to mediate in my conversation with lisa. i am an adult and quite capable of talking to someone as is lisa.

sorry am a really slow typer so my message seems to appear a bit of the course.... to join in with this present day im no jw but i do that aswell..on my birthday i make a special effort to speak to my mom or give her a small token gift.my dc asked why and i said because mom chose to have me...its stuck with them and now my dc on their b/d give me hand made cards or cut outs from there colouring books as pressies...

i think this country is diverse in many ways and new traditions are being made for families...(we've got loads for our new modern Eid for the children as it is so close to xmas)

Gorionine - the 'bit mean' comment (mine and yours). Never mind!

Yes edam, I think delicate subjects do not always bring the best in us,. The important bit is to be able to revise ourselfselves, with every now and then, the help of someone with radically different ideas. It is what make things progress IMO.

Point taken themulledmanneredjanitor,BTW my name is not goronline.

what
Franny
said

I would be pissed off too but I'm afraid there ain't much you can do about it!

what franny said. you are free to disagree with someone else's beliefs. I mean you could tell your child that she can believe something even if her friend doesn't.

Meant to also say that I don't think YABU. You're just pissed off; nowt wrong with that. It's not as if you're telling the other girl's mother off for telling her DD the truth, is it?