My kids are two and three years old. My husband and I would like to practice some family Christmas traditions.
2006-10-28 09:34:45 · 16 answers · asked by Butterfly Princess 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
The same goes for Easter and Thanksgiving.
2006-10-28 09:35:23 · update #1
We do bible trivia about Jesus and the events surrounding his birth. Teaching your children to give to others at this time of year is great. My mother has suggested that our entire family work at shelter this year before or after dinner.
2006-10-28 13:09:09 · answer #1 · answered by Charlee's Mama 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Usually church's have special events during the season. I recommend trying to find a "live nativity" in the your area locally. We try to go to one every year, and last year the chuch we went to was so well researched that I was actually shouting some Latin out at a Roman centurion and responded to me in Latin!
crazy...
If you check a local christian book store they might also have some nifty ideas, or toys and books geared towards younger children that may start some cool traditions.
[On a side note Christmas does not have pagan origins like Easter does. With Easter the name "Easter" is pagan,with christmas it's just the day chosen. Dec. 25th was picked to celebrate Christmas to compete with a holiday celebrated by Mithraism, a religion popluar among Roman soldiers. The Christmas tree and yule log, etc. are pagan...but that came later.]
2006-10-28 23:29:20 · answer #2 · answered by ms_nlink 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have some great books. One is about Santa and the Christ baby, the other is the story of the candy cane. We read them quite often at Christmas
We also have an advent wreath which we light at dinner each during Advent.
Our church has a children's Christmas Eve Mass, which includes the older children performing the Christmas story.
Right now my kids are 8 and 10 I wish I had when they were younger suggesting that they only request and recieve one present from Santa. I find at least with my son he gets very greedy with "the list" and becomes his focus at Christmastime.
For Easter you can focus on the season of Lent. I do not know your religion but you can practice "sacrificing" giving up something during the season of Lent. And of course going to church.
2006-10-28 23:22:54 · answer #3 · answered by Marge Simpson 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do put a Christmas tree up. But I also put up the manger, this is the main reason for Christmas. I have little animal figures that are put around the manger. I have several Santas and they are also going to see Jesus. I have a snow village that is so pretty, and the Manger is in the middle of this snow village. I have the Bible open up to the Christmas story.
As for Easter, I don't believe in Easter egg hunts to me it is stupid.This is the time Christ rose and it should be a very holy time and a joyous time. I always keep Christ in everything.
2006-10-29 00:00:35 · answer #4 · answered by Lynn M 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nativity scenes are a great reminder of the real meaning of Christmas, Just talking with them, telling them the story of Christ birth. My children are grown now but from the time they were old enough to walk and talk we all went to the giving tree( there have been stores in every town I have lived in that have the names and ages of children that are poor and will not get gifts hanging from a Christmas tree)and each child selects a name and shops for them. Its a tradition they always looked forward to. I like to think it helped them to learn that Christmas is about more than getting gifts, its about giving too.
2006-10-29 08:40:13 · answer #5 · answered by childofthefifties 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For Christmas and Easter read the true christmas story and easter the true easter story or you could watch (movie) or you could attend a chuch
2006-10-29 14:39:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When it is time to pass all the presents, or I should say right before that, all the grand kids and younger kids gather around the tree (we have a large family, there are about 70 grand kids, I am the 20th of 24 kids) and all the kids sing happy birthday to Jesus. I love it and I continue it with my family when we can't make it to grandmas house.
2006-10-29 09:48:47 · answer #7 · answered by NolaDawn 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When I was little my grandfather would always tell the story of how baby jesus was born before we went to bed christmas eve... Now my family and I just go to church christmas eve. I love to hear the sermon, and we have a nice candlelight service. It is really special!
2006-10-29 04:35:21 · answer #8 · answered by seren_dipity_3 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know nothing of thanksgiving, but Christmas and Easter (Easter especially) actually have pre-christian roots, so apart from obvious things like a crib, most tradtions are either modern (tree) or have pagan roots (yule logs, feasts, holly, ivy)
2006-10-28 16:39:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
We don't officially belong to a church but we have started going to the Christmas Eve candlelight service. It's beautiful and brings us closer together,
2006-10-29 01:37:38 · answer #10 · answered by theoriginalquestmaker 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋