Children forgetting meaning of Christmas

[ayin jade]

LONDON (AFP) - Less than half of British children between the ages of seven and 11 are aware that Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus, according to a BBC poll.

Just 44 percent of 1,063 children questioned understood that Christmas returns each year for the birth of Christ.

Children from Northern Ireland were the most aware of the link, with 71 percent giving the correct response.

The vast majority of children -- 89 percent -- said they were excited by Christmas, and 63 percent of them said they were saving money to buy gifts for their close friends.

According to the poll, 15 percent of children said they spent more money on their mother, while seven percent said they spent more on their father. Some 66 percent tried to be fair and spent equal amounts on both parents.

Among the children questioned, 29 percent said Christmas was primarily about thinking of others, while 24 percent said it more about giving than receiving presents.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061219/od_af...9&printer=1

[sweetycakes]

LONDON (AFP) - Less than half of British children between the ages of seven and 11 are aware that Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus, according to a BBC poll.

Just 44 percent of 1,063 children questioned understood that Christmas returns each year for the birth of Christ.

Children from Northern Ireland were the most aware of the link, with 71 percent giving the correct response.

The vast majority of children -- 89 percent -- said they were excited by Christmas, and 63 percent of them said they were saving money to buy gifts for their close friends.

According to the poll, 15 percent of children said they spent more money on their mother, while seven percent said they spent more on their father. Some 66 percent tried to be fair and spent equal amounts on both parents.

Among the children questioned, 29 percent said Christmas was primarily about thinking of others, while 24 percent said it more about giving than receiving presents.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061219/od_af...9&printer=1

What?

That is SHOCKING!

Although I don't agree with the title saying about Jesus being born on Christmas day, the findings of this poll are horrendous.

[SueZQ]

How very sad, I ache for those children

[Guest stevej]

This poll does not surprise me in the least. For years we have seen Christ pushed aside and forgotten more and more. Retailers of all sorts pushing back Christmas to the point of beginning on the 1st of October, the media shoving Christmas in our face with hardly a mention of Christ, Schools forbidden to discuss or recognize in any way the Christ of Christmas, parents as an afterthought bringing Christ into Christmas, our churches cancelling all services and activities, these are but a few of the examples our children see.

Our children we all keep saying learn by example. We as Christians should be setting the example and some of us are. Some choose to be drawn into the garbage of the commercialization of Christmas. What many fail to see and realize is that each step we take away from the Christ in Christmas is a building stone for our country to be in exactly the same place those children in Britain and Northern Ireland with our children.

Maybe i am too cynical about this. However, a dear friend of ours came by the house overwhelmed because of the lists the children and grandchildren brought and had been "brainwashed" that they needed..and yet not one of them attends church, worships God or even gives a second thought to what the meaning of the season really is Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!