We are doing a Family day where the kids are getting gifts from the parents etc, just not associated with Xmas. I just see celebrating Xmas as a slippery slope, as it were, where slowly their, our, minds kinds start creeping toward celebrating things with out really looking into what started this whole thing.
I understand that it's fun for the kids, but at what cost? Kids will eat candy all day if you let them, but that does not make their desire to celebrate Xmas a good thing just because it feels good.
I just feel that we have mentally been through a lot getting out of this cult and I feel that celebrating anything like this that is based on religion is like throwing in the towel "cause it feels good" I feel people are sometimes like moths that see a bright pretty light and decide to fly to it no matter the cost.
Trying to get my children to try to think above the sheeple that are just going with the herd toward this celebration, just because a lot of people do it and it is fun does not mean that they are not giving up something for this fun time. I somehow feel that i'm a little bit clearer in my thinking for being able to withstand the onslought of just celebrating Xmas. I don't want that to sound belittling but in a way I mentally feel that I'm at a higher level being able to not fall for the bright lights glitz and glamour. Staying away from the merchandising and marketing and seeing what it is all about financially is freeing in a sense.
The only way that I would think that it was okay to do this is if it helped the kids get further away from the cult thinking. But then I think, at what cost, jumping out of one mental trap for another. I can see that a group of people wanting to do this if all their extended family were never Jws and it's a family tradition already. For us, we have never done this and starting a tradition just because seems childish in a way.
NJY