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Chinese School Kindergarten plans Halloween parent-child activities,
All parents refuse to participate in
Medical Li, who works in Chinese School Kindergarten, has been very annoyed recently and has asked a few of our old classmates to complain.
It turned out that their class planned a parent-child activity of "Elf Halloween Masquerade", which had been promoted for a week in advance, and also mobilized children to explain the activity process to parents. However, so far, no parents are willing to sign up.
There are also several parents who speak out in the class group: We choose Chinese kindergartens for our children to learn traditional culture and cultivate family and country feelings, not to celebrate religious festivals for foreigners!
These words were loud and loud, and the other parents praised it one after another. Teacher Li felt that he could not refute it and could only ask the principal to terminate the Halloween event.
The principal rejected Teacher Li’s request, saying that this was a unified activity arranged by the head of the principal. As the principal of the branch, she could only execute it. She encouraged Teacher Li to overcome difficulties, liven up the atmosphere, and do a good job in environmental creation, so that parents and children can have a meaningful masquerade party.
Teacher Li was very helpless and always felt that this activity was absurd. Celebrating Halloween in the National Academy of Sciences, on the playground where the statue of Confucius stood, a group of children and their parents were playing "cosplay" in "strange costumes". Just imagine, they all felt that the scene was not very harmonious.
Teacher Li’s worries are not an isolated case. In recent years, Halloween has been increasingly used by kindergartens, early education institutions, and foreign language education and training institutions to organize parent-child activities to expand their influence and promote enrollment.
Of course, I am willing to believe that the organizer's original intention is to give children a chance to release their own nature, so I worked hard to carefully plan. Let foreign festivals be localized step by step, and gradually become an extremely important and wonderful festival in children's hearts.
When my child was in the middle class of kindergarten, the teacher also organized a Halloween sugar consultation activity. Each child brought back a beautiful invitation letter, which marked the detailed activity process, requiring all parents to participate at the same time, and none of them are missing.
and use red font to indicate: Grandpa and grandma cannot participate in the place of parents, bring their own clothes and props, and all family makeup must have their own distinctive personal characteristics.
At that time, it also caused widespread and profound complaints among the parents group, but on the day of the event, the parents still attended the event in full costume and were more creative than the other.
In comparison, the parents taught by Teacher Li are very hard-core, but I don’t know if they can “fight” the “suffering” of their babies at home. My husband is very opposed to the children celebrating Halloween. He once said: Whoever loves to participate, whoever wants to participate, we won’t go anyway. Be a Chinese child, why are you pretending to be a vampire?
However, under the inspiration of the teacher, the child was wearing a magic hat, a big mask, carrying an pumpkin lantern, and carrying a pack of lollipops, and rushed away excitedly. As his father, he could only clean up and make a quick appearance.
Last Halloween, our children were already in the first grade. The teacher thought they had finally reached the end and no longer had to pretend to be a ghost to participate in the "idiot" activities in the kindergarten. (Mr. I always thought the masquerade party was idiotic)
Who knew that that night, Mr. went downstairs to throw garbage. Under the dim street lights, a little girl in white clothes with blood bleed at the corners of her mouth suddenly rushed over and stopped him: Give him candy, uncle! I won’t let you throw garbage without giving candy, and the gentleman was so scared that he ran upstairs with a scream...
Halloween has invaded our lives. Whether you like it or not, there are its shadow everywhere, and you can peek at your every move with your teeth and claws.The strange-shaped pumpkin in the mall, the little demon suit pushed on the Taobao homepage, various parent-child activities related to Halloween in the circle of friends...
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Is Halloween a cultural invasion?
Can we forbid him from appearing in the child's world?
The annual Halloween is coming again, the curtain of complaints has slowly been raised, and heroes from all walks of life have made a brilliant debut.
Opposition :
The origin of Halloween is rich in religious colors. It is really foolish for Chinese people, especially children to celebrate the festival for foreigners with great fanfare. This is a naked cultural invasion.
Appreciation :
Global culture is diverse and we cannot draw the land in one acre of three-point land of our ancestors. We must embrace all rivers with an open vision and let our children be small citizens around the world.
Mean School :
Halloween is for children to play with, it has nothing to do with anything else. It is forbidden to exaggerate it. Don’t go too far. Children are happy.
No matter which faction or voice, the most basic starting point does not deviate from the adherence to and promotion of national culture, but the concepts held in terms of attitudes towards foreign culture are different.
" Let our children be influenced by traditional festivals and their cultural connotations from childhood, so that they can accumulate deep national sentiments when they grow up. "
This idea is completely correct, but the core and focus should be "promoting national culture", and it should be to consolidate the status of traditional festivals in children's hearts, rather than simply and roughly asking "foreign festivals" to get out of their children's lives.
is a long process for children's guidance and education, and it cannot be achieved immediately.
First of all, we have to ask ourselves, why do children like Halloween?
There are not so many troubles in the world of children. They are innocent and like to play happily, interact novelly and interestingly, and like to explore mysterious and unknown worlds.
Halloween has no religious meaning and no cultural invasion for them. It is just a dedicated role-playing. They are asking for candy seriously, and they will really make trouble if they don’t give candy. This is an opportunity to communicate with adults on the same level. They are unwilling to give up this hard-won "wildness", so they cherish this festival especially.
When we adults were red in argument, the child was seriously shaping the pumpkin bucket and applying a unique color to the mask. Is it too much we thought? Or are the children thinking too little?
Let’s ask ourselves another question: In our traditional festivals, is there any one that is specially created and served for children?
Some parents may say that although there is no independent festival for children in our traditional festivals, is "June 1 Children's Day" tailor-made for children?
Are you serious, parent? Is "June 1 Children's Day" still a festival for children now? The kindergarten June 1st performance and the primary school June 1st commendation meeting, “June 1st” is no longer the “Children’s Day” of that year.
"June 1 Children's Day" has successfully advanced to a grand event for children to report their achievements to parents, teachers and even the whole society. Praise progress and encourage retreat is the main theme. Children's Day is actually not a festival, it is just a super parent meeting.
When children are in a desperate need for holidays, Halloween successfully fills up the seats. With its simple entertainment temperament, it swept through the army without any parental assessment factors, and it is just a pure crazy play. This is too tempting for children who yearn for freedom.
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Can some traditional festivals be transformed?
make them have a childish temperament?
Although I understand that children like Halloween mood, personally, I don’t like foreign festivals, especially Halloween.
does not talk about cultural invasion and religious colors, but only targets the two most basic ways of playing: cosplay and trick or treat.
cosplay: I have no objection to dressing up as relatively normal characters like Spider-Man and Witch, but some people dress up so terrifyingly, especially when some children dress up as terrible "ghosts", which makes people get goose bumps at a glance. I am very disgusted.
trickor treatmenttml2: It is really impolite to organize activities, and it is completely free to ask for sugar when you meet people regardless of the occasion. In addition, it is also a bit inappropriate to go to the supermarket to ask for sugar.
I hope that some of our traditional festivals can be adjusted and modified to make them have a naive temperament and specially carry happiness and dreams for children.
For example, on Laba Festival, parents and their children cook a bowl of steaming, sweet and delicious Laba porridge together; on the Lantern Festival, parents and their children make various lanterns together, guess interesting riddles, use hands and brains; on the Double Ninth Festival, , , accompany their children to climb high and look far, and accompany their children to visit their grandparents.
Cultural connotation gives traditional festivals a golden educational opportunity, but at the same time, because of these heavy situational education and its implicit social responsibility, traditional festivals are struggling on the road to getting close to children.
We are a great country with a glorious civilization of five thousand years, so why be afraid of a small Halloween? So, parents, be calm and relax. Sometimes the choice is simple, as long as the children are happy.
At the same time, I look forward to it as enthusiastically as many parents: in the near future, our traditional festivals Laba, Lantern Festival and Double Ninth Festival will be favored and sought after by children.
I hope that at that time, our children will no longer chase each other and shout at the playground: If you don’t give me some candy, just trick or treat.
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