School holidays coming to and end now and the kids start going back to school next week. I am not looking forward to my son going back to school as I have loved my time with him but I will be glad to be able to have some spare cash in my pocket for a change. We have been doing as much as we can afford really, Legoland, Adventure parks, even a weeks holiday just him and I withour Daddy as he was starting to get bored (yes this is a bit extreme but as I never get any proper time with him on my own then I just wanted time on my own with him without Daddy and his playmates very selfish I know). We have also been to the park played on swings and slides and I have been on the swings too. THe weather has been too awful to do an awful lot but what have you all been doing to occupy the kids?
Has anybody ever given you a gift that has really touched your heart? When my middle son was six years old his younger brother had been seriously ill in hospital and he had just come home after being given the all clear. Two days after it happened to be my birthday and my middle son set off down to the shop after collecting all his money together, he appeared at the back door a few minutes later with a tiny little bag containing my birthday present from him in it were two ounces of sarsaparilla tablets, I love you Mummy he said Happy Birthday. He had spent every single penny he had on my birthday present.
I have always wanted to send my children to a pagan school, but at the moment there's only one that I know of in the UK and it is too far, so:
Do you think a more modern lesson in Religious Education would benefit those who wish to know more about the religion to dispel the 'rumours' and / or know more about the practises as a religion?
Also I remember whan I was back in school and the only information on Witches and witchcraft was in the history lessons on the burning times.
Now that religious education in our schools is meant to cover the many religions practised in this country and not just Christianity i find the exclusion of paganism quite galling. I am not a pagan myself but i have many friends who are, and they don't all follow the same form either as some tend towards Wicca while others are Asatru. But the impression of these differing religions that is given is that they are somehow whacky, with no consistent theology and of little historical standing. That they are in fact modern inventions. Well all religions were a modern invention at some point, so i don't know what that has to do with it, even if it were true. They also get it mixed up with Satanism, which is something else entirely. There is a quite high number of people who practise paganism in this country and so it should be taught. After all my children have studied Zoastrianism and there certainly aren't that many of them in Britain, there are probably more pagans.
