Re: Raising kids in a different culture
Hey Hinn, just read your thread... I grew up in a non muslim country, as kids we used to celebrate christmas with christmas trees and gifts( my parents would get their bonuses on 23/24 Dec and that would be the time they probably wanted to buy something special for us! The nicest and most expensive gifts would always be for Christmas!); for Diwali we would go around looking at all the decorated houses and neighbours and friends would send us diwali sweets. I believe it made us understand and accept people of different religions more easily....and it was fun!!!! Now that we're grown up, we understand the religious pov and we don't celebrate...and believe me , we are not less religious that we would have been should we not have celebrated!!!
sweet.
thanks for sharing mermaid.. my heart says too that celebrating christmas in OUR OWN WAY wont make them any less relegious..