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Where Christmas Traditions Come From & How to Talk With Children

Something You Should Know

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What We Think of as Christmas?

Up until around the Victorian period, Christmas was something that we celebrated. It had taken on a reputation of being kind of a drunken, carousing kind of holiday. The upper class wanted to move away from saying Merry Christmas because it was associated with merry-making. And indeed, in George III's radio address he started using Happy Christmas at the end of that as a way to socialize that idea.

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