970 – Holiday’s can be a great opportunity to learn
There is the story we are told and the true story of how things came to be. Thanks to Microsoft’s Bing (yes, Bing), a great article popped up yesterday at work about the true origins of Easter. Immediately, printed and brought home for my daughter to read.
Turns out the story most know, isn’t the actual story. The roots, the origins, a little from column A, a little from column B. Then BAM! The modern mythology retold and repackaged.
This isn’t about Easter, or religion, or anything like that. This isn’t for or against religion, or Easter, or anything like that. This is about history and interesting true stories. Take the opportunity, to focus on an event, and explore it, print it, read about with your child.
This goes for the Fourth of July. Flag Day. Memorial Day. Labor Day. On and on. These stories. The real stories. The true stories are fabulously interesting, in most cases.
Plus, if you are open to it, you can discuss mythology, the origins of stories, how things change and modify over time. You can do all the things that have come to be associated with holiday “x” because, ya know most involve gifts. Yet, you can also learn and appreciate the origins of said holiday. That’s what we’ll do on what we’ve come to call Bunny Egg Day.
A Better Father 