Por Camila Rennó
CHILDREN’S DAY IN THE WORLD
STATEMENTS OF CHILDREN’S DAY IN THE WORLD:
In Mexico all the movies are half price or free on Children’s Day, and the parks too. Adults give children presents – toys, clothes, and candies. Children really look forward to it. (Claudia Cano, Mexico)
We have Children’s Day in June. We have parties at school and then we go on excursions with our teachers. All the amusement parks are free on this day. (Lucia Oliveira Noversa, Portugal)
In the US we don’t have a Children’s Day. Some people wanted to organize a national day for children, but they were told that children were celebrated every day, so there was no need for one. But I think there should be one. (Natashia Hancock, USA)
It would be good to have a special day when children could say what they really think about things, because parents, and adults in general, make a lot of decisions involving us without ever asking us. (Andrew Brogdon, Great Britain)
In Japan we have two big secular festivals for children – one for girls and one for boys, on different days. This division is part of Japanese tradition. In fact until the Second World War they thought that girls and boys shouldn’t play and study together after age of seven. We can see this difference in the two festivals. On the girl’s day, which is not a national holiday, the girls play with special dolls which they keep and display until they are married. On the boy’s day, which is also known as Children’s Day, there is no school. Boys show off weapons and fly banners of carps – the carp is a symbol of strength, as it is a fish which can swim upstream. (Yoshie Kojima, Japan)
HOW IS THE CHILDREN’S DAY IN YOUR COUNTRY? DO YOU THINK IT IS A GOOD CELEBRATION?
Fonte: Teacher Karina Wou
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