? for the jewish moms

Crazycrustacean

How are you going to explain xmas, santa & why such a big deal is made of xmas, but no hanukkah?I grew up celebrating both holidays. DH only hanukkah, but he doesn't know what his parents told him.DH & i decided to only celebrate hanukkah in our house.?

neya28

I figure we'll just come up with some way to make hanukkah super fun. We're not at all religious but will do the whole candle lighting and gifts for DS.

cvincent0423

i'm not jewish but i grew up in a neighborhood where like 75% of my friends were. ?some still did the santa thing but a lot did not. ?they all came up with thier own traditions for christmas eve/day. ?some went to the movies, some still had a big family dinner, some spent the day at the lake with the family. we always learned about all the holiday traditions in school so i guess there really wasn't much to tell when it came to?explaining?why different people celebrate different things. ?we aren't religious and will only do the santa thing and focus on family. ?we will tell him about how other people celebrate the holidays and explain to him what the holiday means to us and why we celebrate the way we do.

anna7602

DH is Jewish, I'm not and we have celebrated all holidays for the 12 years we've been together. I even make Passover dinner. I have no idea how we are going to explain all of this to DD. On the one hand, I think it's great that she will have so many occasions to get together with family and partake in celebrations, on the other hand, I am afraid it will lose all meaning for her, but how to instill meaning when some of the traditions are conflicting ones?