Oh boy..
Well, I'm not really sure what to do in a situation like this..
Me and my fiance (J) have religious views different than my family's and that's ok. I'm not going to try to change them.
We have started taking our daughter to the church, because that is how we want her raised..
We aren't living together at the moment, but we will be soon..
The one thing about our religion.. we don't celebrate holidays.. Yup, that's right.
My family seems to be big on Christmas and what not..
Me having a 6 year old daughter.. I KNOW that there are going to have TONS of gifts for her.. That's ok, giving gifts is ok and all.. but we want to do the right thing in our religion and not celebrate Christmas.
I just don't know HOW to explain our wishes, and I don't think they'll respect them either. At least some won't. Some will..
I just want to explain that we do not want to celebrate the holidays, because we believe it to be wrong.. There's nothing wrong with giving gifts, and spending time with family.. but why does there have to be a special date?? Besides ask anyone what they enjoy most about Christmas, and they'll probably say something like spending time as a family..
I mean.. I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do or anything, I just want them to respect our wishes, but have no clue how to do so.
I'm kind of glad no one will probably read this, because I really don't want to deal with me "OMIGOSH DAT'S SO WRONG!!! KIDS NEED CHRISTMAS!!!!!!111" blahblahblah crap.
Like I said, you don't NEED a holiday to spend time together and to do gift giving..
Me and my fiance (J) have religious views different than my family's and that's ok. I'm not going to try to change them.
We have started taking our daughter to the church, because that is how we want her raised..
We aren't living together at the moment, but we will be soon..
The one thing about our religion.. we don't celebrate holidays.. Yup, that's right.
My family seems to be big on Christmas and what not..
Me having a 6 year old daughter.. I KNOW that there are going to have TONS of gifts for her.. That's ok, giving gifts is ok and all.. but we want to do the right thing in our religion and not celebrate Christmas.
I just don't know HOW to explain our wishes, and I don't think they'll respect them either. At least some won't. Some will..
I just want to explain that we do not want to celebrate the holidays, because we believe it to be wrong.. There's nothing wrong with giving gifts, and spending time with family.. but why does there have to be a special date?? Besides ask anyone what they enjoy most about Christmas, and they'll probably say something like spending time as a family..
I mean.. I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do or anything, I just want them to respect our wishes, but have no clue how to do so.
I'm kind of glad no one will probably read this, because I really don't want to deal with me "OMIGOSH DAT'S SO WRONG!!! KIDS NEED CHRISTMAS!!!!!!111" blahblahblah crap.
Like I said, you don't NEED a holiday to spend time together and to do gift giving..