Just wondering what other people do- I'm not very happy anout my DCs doing Halloween activities- school topic/ school disco/ cubs all currently focussing on Halloween.
I've said no to school disco, and told cubs DS won't be there & my DCs are upset they're missing out.
I don't agree with trick or treating so we don't do that.
Just wondering how other people deal with it.
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Christians-dealing with Halloween?
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poshme · 24/10/2013 16:51
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PloddingDaily ·
29/10/2013 21:06
OP - we don't / won't be 'celebrating' halloween here either...same as we don't 'do' Eid, summer solstice, saints days etc etc etc...we do what we do, our kids get plenty of treats & fun stuff throughout the year, end of. 
I suspect a lot of the aggression & animosity against anyone perceived to be opting out of halloween due to 'faith' reasons come down to people feeling defensive because they think there's some kind of implied judgement of what they do with their kids...but whilst I don't judge what other people do, I don't think my kids are to be pitied, and frankly I find it highly offensive when people take it upon themselves to judge my actions by their standards that way...I'm not judging people who want to get involved with halloween, that's their call, but just because my family doesn't buy into their choices doesn't give them any right to finger poke in our direction. I think that the whole "your poor kids / what a kill joy" thing is a very ugly kind of peer pressure / herd think.
There are a whole lot of reasons why we don't 'do' halloween, but as I'm not out for a bunfight & believe we all have the right to choose, I won't go into them here... 
ps ...I don't have strong feelings about what the origins of halloween are either! 
Italiangreyhound ·
01/11/2013 16:46
msmiggins we have a Light party as an alternative to the way many people choose to celebrate 31 October. We do it because the children of families we know love a party and might feel they were missing out if they could not go to Halloween parties. I would not want my daughter to feel that she has to miss out on a party but I acknowledge that there may be times when she might or times when she is older and she will choose to go to a Halloween party but while she is still young I would love her to have an alternative way to celebrate this day. Just as many non-Christians might choose to celebrate 25 December differently to me.
I am just curious but does it bother you that some people choose to do something different? Don;t reply if you don't want to, I just sense you don't understand why we do what we do and for me it is important to be open about what I do and it is not an attempt to put other people down. Some of our light party attendees were not regular 'church' families and some wore 'scary' costumes and all were made as welcome as each other. It was a totally free event but people asked to make donations and one mum from another church came up and said please keep doing what you are doing as it is so nice not to be pressurised into doing what everyone else does.
Italiangreyhound ·
01/11/2013 18:06
TheIggorcist that is a lovely idea, not sure how many children's games can come out of that theme though!
But I like the idea, any other days we could celebrate we don't normally? (genuine question).
Personally, I would like to see international day of the girl child celebrated but I guess we would then also need an international day of the boy child too!
www.un.org/en/events/girlchild/
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