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Easter Bunny: Are You Lying To Your Kids?
By Audrey Sneddon

When you tell your child that the Easter bunny is coming to give them gifts, to hide eggs and just bring joy to their Easter holiday, are you lying to them or are you merely telling a little white fib that is meant to give the child hope in a world that, at times, can seem so dark? Who cares, as long as it has the desired effect. The point of the Easter bunny is to give the children an icon to view this Holiday by. Children learn more quickly when shapes and their vision senses are used. For this reason, the Easter bunny is a harmless white lie that hurts no one and only brings joy. What in the world is wrong with that?

Where Does The Easter Bunny Come From?

Easter started out as a Christian holiday, or Holy Day, that represents the day that Christ, their savior, rose from the grave. Somewhere along the line, this line of thinking was either forgotten or seriously diluted. For instance, many people go to church on this April holiday and then give Easter bunny candy to each other and gift baskets and hide eggs and the whole bit. But where does this come from?

How did Easter turn from a religious holiday celebrating the resurrection of a savior from our sins to an Easter bunny that decorates and hides eggs for little boys and girls to find? And then he delivers gifts. Santa Clause has a sack and, I have to tell you, I've never seen a picture of the Easter bunny with a sack. How does he carry all those gifts? One may never know.

Tell your kids about the Easter bunny and let them revel in the joy that he or she brings every Easter. More than likely, your child will find out the truth by some snot-nosed kid at school who revels in destroying the hopes and dreams of those promising kids around them. So, keep up the charade as long as you can and as long as your child will believe you.

As long as your child is happy, who cares? The Easter bunny is merely an icon that's meant to deliver happiness, much like the Tooth Fairy. Maybe they exist and maybe they don't, but as long as they bring happiness, we can only hope that they do, in fact, exist and that there's more of them.

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Audrey Sneddon writes for various web sites on a wide variety of subjects including Easter, and other holidays.

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