According to the Kommunalarbetarens review, more and more kindergartens invite parents to the celebration of st. lucia day with a traditional lucia procession. Many believe that they do it to reduce stress for children and staff.
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– To train for the lucia takes a lot of time in claims from other parts of the business and creates a stress in both children and staff. Our main argument is that we find that many of the children, and especially the smallest, will have to stand before a large audience, ” says Karin Käppe, deputy förskolechef on Sjöbodens preschool in Stockholm, sweden.
as select away to lussa for the parents celebrating yet lucia – but in new ways. At several kindergartens in the Södermalm district in Stockholm, the staff has chosen to change its celebration of lucia in the last few years.
On the Allotment nursery, a ljusfest at the farm where the children can make their own lanterns which are lit and their parents are invited to sing and celebrate together with the children.
get the look at the Swedish celebration of st. lucia day, and on the Bullerbyns, Villekullas and Kastanjens kindergartens play the staff in a santa lucia pageant, in advance, which are then displayed for the parents. The parents may simultaneously take part of images and movies from the entire year’s operations.
“It’s a change of tradition, we don’t take away the celebration altogether, but we change the way to celebrate,” says Annika Nylén, deputy förskolechef on Maria kindergartens.
The new ways to celebrate lucia has been positively received by most of the parents. Some lacks to come and watch their children, but the majority are positive and understand that it is for the children’s sake.
the alternative way to avoid the kids, the pressure it can bring to perform for strangers, ” explains Annika Nylén. It also means that the demands on the parents reduce because they do not have to arrange lucia costumes, which instead are provided by the nursery.
– We use the same lucia costumes on all the pre-school for sustainability, ” says Annika Nylén.
is a charged area. The weeks leading up to the feast, surrounded usually of different claims that the celebrations should have been cancelled or banned by various schools in Sweden. So even this year. But several of the allegations that have been disseminated have been false or misleading.
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