Easter is NOT Christmas!

[Josy]

Right so I have just been scrolling through my fb feed and there are tons of posts like 'The Easter Bunny has been to *insert random kids names here*' followed by images of tons of easter eggs/chocolate, clothes, consoles/games, money, toys etc...ummm when the hell did Easter turn into Christmas 2.0? isn't that just making kids greedier and then in return they will expect to get these things every year, they already have Christmas and Birthdays so why do they need to have lots of gifts on Easter too? I know it's personally up to the parents what they give their kids but it's adding to the ever increasing materialistic attitudes that kids seem to have these days.

On Easter we used to get Easter Eggs, a lot of them right enough but it was still just Easter Eggs and also Clothes, that was it.

Don't get me wrong, I couldn't find a specific egg that a couple of my nieces wanted so I just got them massive bars of chocolate with a little gift to go along with it but that's just a little thing.

Opinions?

[JoshBB]

Holidays adapt and change with culture, I'm sure you have some religious person somewhere ranting that Easter is supposed to be about Jesus and not eggs/toys. Things just change.

[Josy]

Holidays adapt and change with culture, I'm sure you have some religious person somewhere ranting that Easter is supposed to be about Jesus and not eggs/toys. Things just change.

Its not about the Holiday any more though for most people

[JoshBB]

Its not about the Holiday any more though for most people

It hasn't really been about the holiday for a long time. A majority of this country probably aren't even religious anymore.

[Kazanne]

Holidays adapt and change with culture, I'm sure you have some religious person somewhere ranting that Easter is supposed to be about Jesus and not eggs/toys. Things just change.

That'll probably be me then,not all change is good imo.

[Josy]

It hasn't really been about the holiday for a long time. A majority of this country probably aren't even religious anymore.

Yes Josh that's pretty much the whole point of the thread

That'll probably be me then,not all change is good imo.

Yup. I'm sick of everything getting far too over commercialised these days tbh

[Jamesy]

Buying toys, consoles and other expensive gifts is just bizarre. Easter for me always has and will be about chocolate eggs. The most I used to get as a kid outside of eggs was a fiver from my nan.

I worry as times change when us younger adults have kids we may be pressurised to buy our children more. No doubt these things extend to school for kids. When I was in school it was 'I got 2 more eggs than you na na na'. I would dread to think now and in the future it becomes 'I got a Nintendo 3DS' 'Haha I got a Playstation 4, I got something better than you na na na'.

I'm not a fan of bringing kids up with materialistic attitudes. By all means treat them, but within reason. Those kids who get spoilt beyond belief will grow up with no appreciation of the world and no realistic out view of life and how you need to work to get what you want.

Holidays like this becoming more of a time of showering your kids with expensive gifts is wrong imo.

[Cherie]

it seems pushy parents powered by social media are desperate to outdo each other in what they got little Macey for Easter, more fool them :laugh:

[Cherie]

Buying toys, consoles and other expensive gifts is just bizarre. Easter for me always has and will be about chocolate eggs. The most I used to get as a kid outside of eggs was a fiver from my nan.

I worry as times change when us younger adults have kids we may be pressurised to buy our children more. No doubt these things extend to school for kids. When I was in school it was 'I got 2 more eggs than you na na na'. I would dread to think now and in the future it becomes 'I got a Nintendo 3DS' 'Haha I got a Playstation 4, I got something better than you na na na'.

I'm not a fan of bringing kids up with materialistic attitudes. By all means treat them, but within reason. Those kids who get spoilt beyond belief will grow up with no appreciation of the world and no realistic out view of life and how you need to work to get what you want.

Holidays like this becoming more of a time of showering your kids with expensive gifts is wrong imo.


:clap2:

[smudgie]

When our kids were actual kids, they got gifts for Easter as they were both lactose intolerant and could not eat chocolate, however the gifts were small and inexpensive.
Nowadays they get eggs...making up for lost time I suppose. (And cheaper).
I don't get the need to spend a fortune at Easter to be honest.
We are not a religious family, but love to treat the holiday as time to get together...circumstances willing.

[Kazanne]

Yes Josh that's pretty much the whole point of the thread



Yup. I'm sick of everything getting far too over commercialised these days tbh

Too right Josy,it makes kids greedy and they expect more every year.

[Glenn.]

I had this conversation with Tom in the lounge last night. My cousin is the same with her kids. She's got them five or six eggs and a handful of presents including Xbox games :umm2:

There is no need.

[MTVN]

It is much more important for it is the day that Jesus rose from the dead and showed himself as the saviour for all of us

[AnnieK]

I've just spoken to my friend who told me what she has got her daughter....eggs, toys and clothes. I felt a little guilty but my son has just told me it's the best Easter ever. He got one egg and we've had an egg hunt. I had hidden plastic eggs with his fave things, zomblings (which cost 50peach) around the garden and he had a great time finding them.
I didn't realise Easter was such a big thing...

[RichardG]

I've only ever got chocolate eggs and I prefer that, you can receive presents any time of the year but it's not often that giant chocolate eggs are on sale. :amazed:

[lily.]

I only ever got my kids one chocolate egg. I would usually let them pick which one they wanted.

I have noticed it seems to be a 'gift giving' season now, but I don't follow the pack, so I don't really care.

I don't have fb, and one of the advantages is that I don't have to see the bragging-fest that goes on every five minutes. At Christmas, Birthdays and now Easter it seems that a lot of parents are more interested in showing the world how much they spent rather than the thought behind the gift.

[Drew.]

Next you'll be telling the kids the easter bunny isn't real, scrooge

[Niamh.]

An Easter egg is all mine get anyway :shrug:

[Niamh.]

It is much more important for it is the day that Jesus rose from the dead and showed himself as the saviour for all of us


He emerged from a giant chocolate egg

[Vicky.]

My kids get eggs, but my mum and dad brought a kinda gift bag thing with some clothes and an egg in

[Niamh.]

it seems pushy parents powered by social media are desperate to outdo each other in what they got little Macey for Easter, more fool them :laugh:


Yup

[Jake.]

Well this is news!

[Kizzy]

it seems pushy parents powered by social media are desperate to outdo each other in what they got little Macey for Easter, more fool them :laugh:

I agree, someones little darling will be going back to school bragging the easter bunny brought them an organic gold leaf egg, and an iphone 5 :laugh:

[joe199998293]

I have like three eggs and a fiver from my gran because I don't like chocolate.

[smudgie]

Now when I think about it, when we were kids (way back in the dark age) we always got our first summer outfit for Easter, new white socks, white cardigan and a summery dress...we thought we had done well, crafty parents got brownie points for buying us clothes I guess, anyhow, I always done the same with my two, apart from buying our son the dress. Used to hopefor good weather at Easter so they could wear their Easter best.

[kirklancaster]

Easter is a Christian festival. The celebration is - not of Christ's death on the cross - but of his resurrection, and it does not matter how many times someone denies this or naively maintain that 'times change' it remains incontrovertible FACT.

The giving of eggs at Easter is a celebration of new life and represents the 'Death and Rebirth' element of the Resurrection.

The fact that - like Christmas - Easter has been abducted by materialistic non-believers and its simple pure message corrupted, does not mean that the original meaning is lost to a great many people around the world -- despite what some atheists claim to the contrary.

As Kaz has said; change is not always for the best, and we are now teaching our children to value materialism more than truth, and instead of instilling in them hope, we are creating massive problems for them which will trouble them throughout their lives; namely, false aspiration and expectation of materialistic possessions which only a very few of them will ever achieve, and which the majority of them, therefore are destined to eventually and inevitably feel like frustrated failures and 'worthless'.

Just like the subliminal effects of glossy advertising, reality TV shows and other media influences which 'condition' our kids to aspire to false and superficial 'ideals' based on materialistic possessions and 'designer' lifestyles, this 'hijacking' of Easter and Christmas and the conversion of their simple messages into ones of materialistic desire and greed, is a recipe for disaster.

Of course, some of you younger, brighter, more sophisticated people will disagree, but, hey; "C'est la vie".

[Pete.]

Easter should be Easter eggs imo. Toys and presents are a bit too far

[Natalie.]

I used to get a few Easter eggs off family and my parents and a new outfit.

[arista]

Josy


There is No God

[lily.]

Now when I think about it, when we were kids (way back in the dark age) we always got our first summer outfit for Easter, new white socks, white cardigan and a summery dress...we thought we had done well, crafty parents got brownie points for buying us clothes I guess, anyhow, I always done the same with my two, apart from buying our son the dress. Used to hopefor good weather at Easter so they could wear their Easter best.

I thought you were a guy until this sentence..

[Kizzy]

http://www.odinic-rite.org/AcornHollow/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Ostara-Eggs-294x300.jpg
Happy Ostara

[Suze]

It is getting ridiculous, and just pushes some stupid parents trying to outdo each other, further into debt. What next, the tooth fairy leaving an X Box under the pillow?

[Josiah.]

I really don't like how secular Easter and Christmas have become (especially Easter). It's like people only focus on the Easter Bunny rather than Jesus's Resurrection.

[GypsyGoth]

It is much more important for it is the day that Jesus rose from the dead and showed himself as the saviour for all of us

He emerged from a giant chocolate egg

:laugh2:

[Ross.]

It is getting ridiculous, and just pushes some stupid parents trying to outdo each other, further into debt. What next, the tooth fairy leaving an X Box under the pillow?

Wouldn't surprise me tbh :joker:

[LukeB]

It is getting ridiculous, and just pushes some stupid parents trying to outdo each other, further into debt. What next, the tooth fairy leaving an X Box under the pillow?

I think kids will not have any teeth left

[Ninastar]

Its because people are copying what the Americans do. In the states, the easter bunny doesn't bring eggs, he brings presents

to each their own, i say

[Josy]

Easter is a Christian festival. The celebration is - not of Christ's death on the cross - but of his resurrection, and it does not matter how many times someone denies this or naively maintain that 'times change' it remains incontrovertible FACT.

The giving of eggs at Easter is a celebration of new life and represents the 'Death and Rebirth' element of the Resurrection.

The fact that - like Christmas - Easter has been abducted by materialistic non-believers and its simple pure message corrupted, does not mean that the original meaning is lost to a great many people around the world -- despite what some atheists claim to the contrary.

As Kaz has said; change is not always for the best, and we are now teaching our children to value materialism more than truth, and instead of instilling in them hope, we are creating massive problems for them which will trouble them throughout their lives; namely, false aspiration and expectation of materialistic possessions which only a very few of them will ever achieve, and which the majority of them, therefore are destined to eventually and inevitably feel like frustrated failures and 'worthless'.

Just like the subliminal effects of glossy advertising, reality TV shows and other media influences which 'condition' our kids to aspire to false and superficial 'ideals' based on materialistic possessions and 'designer' lifestyles, this 'hijacking' of Easter and Christmas and the conversion of their simple messages into ones of materialistic desire and greed, is a recipe for disaster.

Of course, some of you younger, brighter, more sophisticated people will disagree, but, hey; "C'est la vie".

Isn't Easter another holiday taken from the pagans and the eggs actually symbolise 'eggs' from the godess of fertility, or something along those lines? :think:

[LukeB]

If they have 1 tiny present and loads of eggs i think it's okay like i use to get a game/dvd/album(one of them) and loads of eggs when i was younger but i think a game console is a bit ott

[Marsh.]

It is bizarre.

My cousin was asking for money for Easter the other week and I thought "What instead of a £1 egg?" :crazy:

[smudgie]

I thought you were a guy until this sentence..

Awwwww, the cat is out of the bag now:laugh:

[Livia]

Easter is a Christian festival. The celebration is - not of Christ's death on the cross - but of his resurrection, and it does not matter how many times someone denies this or naively maintain that 'times change' it remains incontrovertible FACT.

The giving of eggs at Easter is a celebration of new life and represents the 'Death and Rebirth' element of the Resurrection.

The fact that - like Christmas - Easter has been abducted by materialistic non-believers and its simple pure message corrupted, does not mean that the original meaning is lost to a great many people around the world -- despite what some atheists claim to the contrary.

As Kaz has said; change is not always for the best, and we are now teaching our children to value materialism more than truth, and instead of instilling in them hope, we are creating massive problems for them which will trouble them throughout their lives; namely, false aspiration and expectation of materialistic possessions which only a very few of them will ever achieve, and which the majority of them, therefore are destined to eventually and inevitably feel like frustrated failures and 'worthless'.

Just like the subliminal effects of glossy advertising, reality TV shows and other media influences which 'condition' our kids to aspire to false and superficial 'ideals' based on materialistic possessions and 'designer' lifestyles, this 'hijacking' of Easter and Christmas and the conversion of their simple messages into ones of materialistic desire and greed, is a recipe for disaster.

Of course, some of you younger, brighter, more sophisticated people will disagree, but, hey; "C'est la vie".

Sorry Kirk, I can't let you have this one.

Easter has been hijacked by non-believers but it was hijacked initially by Christians. Even the name 'Easter' refers to the Pagan fertility goddess Oestre, who's feast day is the Spring Equinox, March 21. The female hormone oestrogen is named for her and one of her symbols is, unsurprisingly, an egg. She was also associated with the hare... which became the Easter Bunny.

It does surprise me a little that non-believers would want to celebrate a religious holiday but these holidays have become a time for people to get together with loved ones and that can't be a bad thing.

[MB.]

Happy Boxing Day everyone. :clap1:

[DemolitionRed]

I was mainly raised in France where Easter for the kids is about hunting out a handful of mini eggs in the garden. I had never seen a large chocolate egg until I spent Easter in the UK. For the adults its always been about a large family meal, lots of wine and good conversation. For some its about going to church but even in France that's less and less. Christmas, apart from the food and wine is also still a humble affair in France.

I'm not sure why so many of us Brits feel we have to shower our children with an expensive abundance of gifts for these two festivals. We are such a consumer driven society who create unreasonable expectations in our children. So many parents seem to be under this false illusion that expensive gifts represent their love for that child.

[kirklancaster]

Sorry Kirk, I can't let you have this one.

Easter has been hijacked by non-believers but it was hijacked initially by Christians. Even the name 'Easter' refers to the Pagan fertility goddess Oestre, who's feast day is the Spring Equinox, March 21. The female hormone oestrogen is named for her and one of her symbols is, unsurprisingly, an egg. She was also associated with the hare... which became the Easter Bunny.

It does surprise me a little that non-believers would want to celebrate a religious holiday but these holidays have become a time for people to get together with loved ones and that can't be a bad thing.

:fist: I was avoiding answering Josy because it meant a (fairly ) long detailed post and now you have compelled me.

But later. (and I forgive you. :laugh:)

[kirklancaster]

I was mainly raised in France where Easter for the kids is about hunting out a handful of mini eggs in the garden. I had never seen a large chocolate egg until I spent Easter in the UK. For the adults its always been about a large family meal, lots of wine and good conversation. For some its about going to church but even in France that's less and less. Christmas, apart from the food and wine is also still a humble affair in France.

I'm not sure why so many of us Brits feel we have to shower our children with an expensive abundance of gifts for these two festivals. We are such a consumer driven society who create unreasonable expectations in our children. So many parents seem to be under this false illusion that expensive gifts represent their love for that child.

You echo my sentiments Red.

[Crimson Dynamo]

my lot get eggs and that is it, never heard of gifts at easter. The 2 wee ones painted eggs and rolled them doon a brae.

[Jessica.]

I got one of my nieces a set of clothes, a card and an egg, but that is because I am her godmother. I just got all of the other kids eggs. I wouldn't really give more than clothes and chocolate.

In Portugal it's like a second Christmas, they give gifts to the kids and adults have family dinners etc..

[Shaun]

As a child I was just given eggs and my mum would take us to town to buy some clothes - something smart though for church :laugh:

The idea that people buy consoles, toys and games is a bit depressing and just needlessly commercial tbh, and I'm with you on the objecting to the whole "post a picture of all of the presents on Facebook to one - up your friends" thing.

[Kizzy]

I don't see this as a religious festival, a spring festival maybe based on the cycles of death and rebirth of the earth, that is what has and is celebrated by many for thousands of years.

[arista]

As a child I was just given eggs and my mum would take us to town to buy some clothes - something smart though for church :laugh:

The idea that people buy consoles, toys and games is a bit depressing and just needlessly commercial tbh, and I'm with you on the objecting to the whole "post a picture of all of the presents on Facebook to one - up your friends" thing.


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[Lostie!]

It is getting ridiculous, and just pushes some stupid parents trying to outdo each other, further into debt. What next, the tooth fairy leaving an X Box under the pillow?

:joker::joker:

I completely agree too.

[Kazanne]

My belief is that Easter and Christmas both have religious foundations,but over the years greedy,materialistic people have hijacked it and made them festivals of greed, They don't believe in the foundation of a celebration but will still indulge.It seems most people just believe in me,myself and I.

[joeysteele]

My belief is that Easter and Christmas both have religious foundations,but over the years greedy,materialistic people have hijacked it and made them festivals of greed, They don't believe in the foundation of a celebration but will still indulge.It seems most people just believe in me,myself and I.

Brilliant summing up Kazanne, really says everything.

[the truth]

It hasn't really been about the holiday for a long time. A majority of this country probably aren't even religious anymore.

That's not true

[the truth]

My belief is that Easter and Christmas both have religious foundations,but over the years greedy,materialistic people have hijacked it and made them festivals of greed, They don't believe in the foundation of a celebration but will still indulge.It seems most people just believe in me,myself and I.

agreed. I blame us all for allowing ourselves to become so pathetically materialistic and worse still allowing our kids to become even worse. school proms and pageants for little kids dressed up as Barbie dolls, we see the feminists preach about how men objectivise women, but its actually women and mothers who are allowing their kids to go down this rocky path and become objectivised and appearance obsessed. if I met one woman wearing jumper or cardigan out on a Saturday night id ask her out regardless of height weight wealth or appearance...just the fact shes being an individual and not pretending to be an individual