Re: Raising kids in a different culture
You sound so persian :p
As for your sister's kids femme i think what your sister and her hub did was okay given the circumstances. Their kids will hold a grudge against eid for ruining their christmas and their course of action, given the choices, was a good one. But that does lead us to ask other questions such as the kids already engaging in christmas activities on days leading up to christmas but the same is not happening for Eid.
Also, braces for rotten tomatoes this is just another reason why i'm against people sending kids to public schools and not islamic schools. And that begs the question of how many of us are willing to give up the tv subscription that gives us a thousand and three channels (and other similar extravagances) and maybe allocate more $ towards kids' schooling.
Funny thing though the public school one of my brother's kids go to in chicago have totally ceased all christmas/holiday activities since that school is running short on funds. Some of the locals think its a conspiracy by that area's non-christian residents :D
Well cheegum on Eid ul fitr we have activities leading up to Eid but are there really any such activities for eid ul adha in the west. Its not like we can bring our bakras home and paint them with vibrant colours and feed them our lawn ke ghaas while at night they help themselves to our lawn ke flowers :(
As for islamic schools I dunno if thats a good idea either seriously. My neice came home the other day from her mosque and announced to all of us that christmas is haraam!