Do you teach your toddler about Thanksgiving? (Us)
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I totally understand your point. There are definitely parts of the Thanksgiving story that aren’t accurate, and I think that’s what you were getting at. At the same time, I get why calling it ‘fake’ could come across the wrong way, especially since there’s important history involved for a lot of people. I think you can make it your own at how it works for your family. I know my catholic /Muslim friends celebrate gift giving near Christmas but not the birth of Christ. You can make it your tradition
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r4kxFJFj6BQ I know you said you don’t care for the history side, but this book is great for teaching about thanksgiving in general (history included)
https://keepunumuk.com/authors/ It’s written by a collaboration of native authors! We plan to use it for our early education on thanksgiving even tho we don’t make a big celebration, we occasionally get invited to family gathers lol
@Courtney I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the real history isn't important. It's just that reading first hand accounts of how the Plymouth rock settlement slaughtered a bunch of their neighbors turned me off to any media that glosses over the facts of that relationship.
I don't have any recommendations as we don't celebrate the holiday, but I think it's a bit insensitive to say you don't care about the Native American side of it as it's not fake history. It's actually real. You can choose to celebrate it but just be mindful of your wording and how it can offend others because the history is true of what happened.