I started taking Aidan to a play group the week before last and on my first day there, the woman leading it (who is a Waldorf kindergarten teacher) offered up a basket of brown felt strips and beads so we could make Indian headbands for the kids for Thanksgiving. I failed to communicate my dismay at that moment: it was my first day there, I am rather shy and non-confrontational, but mostly, I lacked a clear understanding of what the holiday is all about and I lacked a vocabulary for talking about it. The word "objectify " came to me days later.
Anyhow, in the process of stewing over this, I came across this website.
Teaching About Thanksgiving
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I didn't click on the link before responding. I say just be honest about it. But I guess not brutally honest, my god, he's 3, I think he can handle. Have fun trying to explain easter with the bunnies and the oddly colored eggs and the zombie stuff too.i will now click on the link.
I am now a better person than I was before I had clicked on the link.
i was going to ask for the link - thanks