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St. Patty's Day
Asked by M.D. from Washington DC
on March 15, 2012
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This is the first year that my kids have been in school where March 17th has fallen on a weekend. They love to get dressed in green and play along with the stories. So...
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- As an avid St. Paddy's Day celebrate(or)...if we were in school they would wear green tomorrow (spring break). But it's special day for me so I celebrate way diffe...
- Sent my daughter in green and I am wearing it too.
- We got a reminder in the backpacks about wearing green tomorrow! They will be wearing green and doing St. Patty's Day "stuff" all day!
What to Expect from Public School System in Relation to Faith?
Asked by T.S. from Minneapolis
on March 26, 2010
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Hi! I'm currently looking at enrolling my daughter in Kindergarten. Due to finances, we are forced to send her to a public school. This is foriegn to us as we both...
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- Gosh - Public schools (especially in your area) are certainly not something to fear or to feel like a bad parent about. Public schools are funded to make basic acad...
- in my son's class they celebrated all the holidays, not necessary from a religious perspective, but they do celebrate them. They don't use religious terms but they do ...
- Public school teachers are not allowed to teach anything resembling religion. However having said that they do have what in our district is called the Character Count...
Small Holidays
Asked by S.T. from Kansas City
on February 7, 2008
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I have two small childeren 4 and 13 months. I can remember as a child that my dad would always buy us a box of candy for Valentines Day and we always got an Easter bas...
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- I totally understand your point of view. I am married to a wonderful husband (who is a stay at home Dad! I travel with my job and always leave the house on Sunday and ...
- Hello S., Like you, my parents made sure that we enjoyed every holiday possible when were growing up. I reflect fondly upon my years as a child. I am certainly glad...
- Hi S., The bunny alwaus leave a few eggs and a chocolate bunny for my girls in the back yard on Easter, they now espect it and look out for a bunny and as soon as t...
Holiday Traditions.
Asked by S.B. from Dallas
on November 13, 2010
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What is THE activity that you and your family have to do every year? This time of the year I like to just sit back and remember the Holidays fom past, and what made th...
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- We have a few traditions. We always bake cookies together. Each kid has the sugar cookie they have been decorating for years - one puts the silver dragee on the blue b...
- We have a lot! We watch one Christmas movie every evening in December. We bake cookies. On Christmas Eve we get dressed to the nines and head over to my mom's for t...
- We also have The Christmas Story marathon tradition- classic!
Traditions
Asked by M.H. from Mansfield
on September 10, 2008
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Hello Everyone! I have a 15 month old son and i am wanting to have some family traditions but did not have any as a child. So i am wanting to see if you would want to ...
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- We have a lot of little traditions, some intentional and some just because, you'll be amazed at what comes about as your child gets older. But mostly ours are as basi...
- Hi M., You are very thoughtful to want to create traditions in your home, even though you did not grow up with any. I think some of the most lasting traditions com...
- we just started one two years ago that no one can interfere with (grandparents relatives etc) we save valentines day for our FAMILY LOVE FEST ( sound creepy I Know but...
Family Traditions?
Asked by A.B. from Phoenix
on July 28, 2008
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What are some traditions that you have? Whether it be Monday night is always family night or you always do the same something special at Christmastime....
I have 6 mo...
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- We have tons of holiday traditions but I won't list those... The ones my kids enjoy the most are the non-holiday ones. The RED PLATE...(only works if you eat dinne...
- This is one i got from a coworker, and now i've started. every year at christmas they get a family gift of a game, even now when your kids are young, that way you buil...
- My boys are only 1 and 2 so we don't have a lot of traditions yet, but here are the ones we have so far: On Sunday mornings I make a special breakfast and we all si...
De-Christmas-ification
Asked by T.N. from Albany
on January 3, 2011
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When my kids were little, I could NOT wait 'til New Year's day to get RID of it all. I flew around the house like a whirling dervish until there was no sign of Christm...
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- I think it is both~ However, good news! We can bring the spirit of Christmas all year longer :-) Get together with our families more often..break out the games, spread...
- This year my stuff was down by the Monday after Christmas, before New Years! Usually I leave it up til the Epiphany or Three Kings Day (Catholic holiday jan. 6th), but...
- BOTH! I love the ambiance of Christmas... the lights, the smells, the feeling... But I HATE clutter, and inevitably, with Christmas, comes unbearable clutter, fr...
Heritage
Asked by S.R. from Medford
on November 7, 2010
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What do you do to honor your children's cultural and ethnic backgrounds? Do you think there is a time of their life when this is more or less important (specifically,...
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- i don't believe in celebrating culture we have indian months and black months and hispanic. I am full blood irish dutch and indian and dont celebrate indian culture. y...
- Right from birth... it is a way of living... the language, foods, stories you tell them, traditions, relatives, everything.. in daily life. It is not specific to age ...
- I am pretty much a mutt, but do have a decent amount of Irish and Norwegian in me. I am proud to pass that on to my daughter. What I have done is to play detective a...
JFF - What Would Your Name Have Been?
Asked by F.W. from Miami
on March 28, 2012
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So everyone, were you ever told what your name would have been if you had been the opposite sex? Or what would you have liked your name to be when you were young. I wo...
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- Thomas if I was a boy. I was very nearly Nicole or Veronica. My mum's favorite was Nicole, my dad's was Veronica.
- Hi! I havent ever asked my Mom what my name would have been if I were a boy. I'll have to do that. I do know that my Mom wanted to name me Tammy. Funny thing is, m...
- I was supposed to be Joseph, my parents were really counting on a boy, but I was the 3rd girl. Whoops! I always wanted to be Paige or Vanessa.
UPDATED: Avoiding a Fightwith Dh=what Should I Do?
Asked by D.P. from Los Angeles
on November 11, 2010
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My DH and I BOTH work. I work Part time=3 days a week. We have no debt other than our mortgage (cars paid off, no credit cards) and we have a large savings account.
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- Wow he sounds like the modern day Scrooge. Perhaps your children should try reading the story out loud in front of him may make him recognize it :-) I am sorry t...
- Wow, hopefully your husband is never in a situation where he needs help from others. That's great you and your kids do that. We adopted a family for the first time thi...
- Maybe you and the kids could write up a plan to show DH about where the money is coming from that you are giving away. It would also be a learning (math) project for y...
