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Report RE: Jehovah Witness Beliefs
Original Post
RE: Jehovah Witness Beliefs - 24-06-08 22:01
Learning about other religions doesnt mean that you have to celebrate them does it?
I managed a day nursery and had three families of Jehovah's Witnesses in I explained the equal opps policy as Maestro suggests, they were happy with all of it.
They decided as parents that they would collect their children a bit earlier on certain festival days... it was actually a joy to have them as a couple of the mums came in and worked with our pre school children for a session raising awareness about what the JW's do and why... they made it fun and exciting (not like the sterotyped JW at all) the staff enjoyed themselves and so did the children.
I hope you can find a way of including this family (most of all he child) and maybe by the time they leave you they will be more open minded... I say take the nurturing approach rather than the policy led "this is what we do here and thats that" approach.
All the best
From Mikeyboi x
PS you might want to tell them that the making of Cards/ decorations is not a forced production line of activities they are activities that the children can CHOOSE to participate in if they want to... if the other children are making christmas cards then perhaps the children from this family can make "I love you" cards instead it doesnt really matter as its not product its the process and the learning involved... after all christmas is absolutly not about the decs and cards to christians its about the birth of Jesus and ultimatly what that means to folks who choose to believe in this.