easter-what r your kids getting/want.

[BrerMom]

Originally posted by stinkerbelle
Ditto!

I think the only "gifty" thing my mom ever put in my easter basket was a new toothbrush, toothpaste, and floss...and a TON of candy!

That is so funny! That's exactly how it is for my kids. Santa brings toys. Easter Bunny brings enough candy for two to three days and individual breakfast boxes, which is a treat once a year at our house.

 

[peg2001]

Originally posted by IMGONNABE40!
I will probably get flamed for this, but I wish that people who do not celebrate Easter would not commercialize and secularize the holy day by "celebrating" Easter.

Ok, then we'll celebrate SPRING. . .aren't the bunny and eggs representative of springtime fertility anyway?

We'll have Spring baskets and Spring candy and some small Spring gifts.

Hope this won't offend anyone.

Peggy

 

[shortbun]

sunglasses, three books - one novel and the last Shel Silverstein
we didn't have and a DK on football or basketball, candy.

 

[CindysGusGus]

Since we go to WDW within a month or so from easter I usually get things that can go with us on the trip. I started this a couple of years ago. It works well and they dont get cavities. This year they are getting, a gameboy game, pjs, and a dvd with very little candy.

 

[Daydreamer64]

We don't give much candy. Last year the boys got a tackle box as a basket and a new fishing rod for Easter. Also, the box contained tackel and worms ( fake ) .

This year we are going to Universal so they will have a fishing hat used as a basket that will double as a shade hat for the trip- it will have sunglasses, a mini-personal fan, an invisable ink book to work on in the car during the trip and various amounts of change to save for the trip. The bunny hides candy and change in his eggs and we have a big egg hunt all over the yard and house each year.

All together I think we spent around $10 each for the kids- they don't need a big basket of sugar. I don't see any conflict in the way we celebrate-

Three of us are diabetic and shouldn't have candy so small gifts work well.

 

[gina2000]

I really don't think that by giving a small gift to a child for Easter that we are secularizing the holiday nor diminishing its meaning. My attempt to downplay the candy aspect of gift giving is all that is intended. Coloring and giving eggs have always been part of the Easter tradition. I suspect, however, that egg hunts were not done in Jerusalem then or now, yet we do them in celebration of the rising of Christ and the joyous end of the Lenten season. The gift of love and joy, be it material or spiritual is a part of this Easter season. We give both.

 

[Lanshark]

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