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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 351905" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We've used the history of traditions to help over the "but they don't really exist" hurdle. For example, the Santa Claus stuff. Some years ago (about the time easy child was heading for high school) a nearby church parish we'd once belonged to, had a very involved Christmas pageant. As an old hand when it comes to acting, I volunteered for the storyteller role and had a range of stories and legends about Christmas to share with people, pitching them at different levels according to their ability to understand. I did have a script, but I found I needed to either dumb it down for tiny tots, or to add extra (accurate) detail for the adults.</p><p>Among those were the stories about the origins of Santa. I actually went home and did even more research so I could expand with accuracy. This could be a way out - perhaps read up on Easter Bunny stories around the world and discuss where they come form. In Germany, for example, there is the "Osterhase" or Easter Hare. In fact it could well be the "Osterhase" being introduced to the US by the early German settlers in the Pennsylvania area, that has led to the US traditions today.</p><p></p><p>Here is a Wikipedia reference you could use to begin with.</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Bunny" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Bunny</a></p><p></p><p>Easter eggs have a separate origin, I'm almost certain. We're actually far less caught up with Easter Bunny in Australia than it seems you are in the US. But we very much have Easter eggs, that's for sure. Remember, for us Easter is in autumn, we don't have the Spring fertility angle here. But from a Christian perspective, the egg not only symbolises new life (and fertility, for the pagans) but it also is round, like the stone rolled away from the tomb. Orthodox Christians boil their eggs in red dye, often with bits of leaf material wrapped up with them so it leaves a leafy pattern on the egg. Easter Sunday is also a day of feasting after the long Lenten fast, so it is traditionally a time of plenty, especially (in the Northern Hemisphere) anticipating a time of plenty in the Spring and Summer to come. Again, doesn't make a lot of sense that way to us Down Under...</p><p></p><p>We've got a bit of Australian individuality with the Easter Bilby (it's discussed at the bottom of that Wikipedia link).</p><p></p><p>So if he needs enlightenment, you could always try Knowledge... it van make it not so bitter a pill, when the time comes that it gets forced down his neck.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 351905, member: 1991"] We've used the history of traditions to help over the "but they don't really exist" hurdle. For example, the Santa Claus stuff. Some years ago (about the time easy child was heading for high school) a nearby church parish we'd once belonged to, had a very involved Christmas pageant. As an old hand when it comes to acting, I volunteered for the storyteller role and had a range of stories and legends about Christmas to share with people, pitching them at different levels according to their ability to understand. I did have a script, but I found I needed to either dumb it down for tiny tots, or to add extra (accurate) detail for the adults. Among those were the stories about the origins of Santa. I actually went home and did even more research so I could expand with accuracy. This could be a way out - perhaps read up on Easter Bunny stories around the world and discuss where they come form. In Germany, for example, there is the "Osterhase" or Easter Hare. In fact it could well be the "Osterhase" being introduced to the US by the early German settlers in the Pennsylvania area, that has led to the US traditions today. Here is a Wikipedia reference you could use to begin with. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Bunny[/url] Easter eggs have a separate origin, I'm almost certain. We're actually far less caught up with Easter Bunny in Australia than it seems you are in the US. But we very much have Easter eggs, that's for sure. Remember, for us Easter is in autumn, we don't have the Spring fertility angle here. But from a Christian perspective, the egg not only symbolises new life (and fertility, for the pagans) but it also is round, like the stone rolled away from the tomb. Orthodox Christians boil their eggs in red dye, often with bits of leaf material wrapped up with them so it leaves a leafy pattern on the egg. Easter Sunday is also a day of feasting after the long Lenten fast, so it is traditionally a time of plenty, especially (in the Northern Hemisphere) anticipating a time of plenty in the Spring and Summer to come. Again, doesn't make a lot of sense that way to us Down Under... We've got a bit of Australian individuality with the Easter Bilby (it's discussed at the bottom of that Wikipedia link). So if he needs enlightenment, you could always try Knowledge... it van make it not so bitter a pill, when the time comes that it gets forced down his neck. Marg [/QUOTE]
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