Teaching our children in schools that the fairies will take care of them, wtf?

LightlyGo

In the last few days there's a video on facebook from the Fairy Door Company featuring Irish school principals talking about how great use of the Fairy Worry Plaque is in schools. Over 5000 people have commented in the hope of winning a plaque for their school. Among them I see many of my friends whose kids are in Educate Together schools who purposefully did not want their kids receiving a religious education but are willing to fill their heads with this nonsense.

Here's a video of what a Fairy Worry Plaque is https://youtu.be/1BLxwNlh708

Here's the video of Irish school principals waxing lyrical about how great they are : https://www.facebook.com/TheIrishFairyDoorCompany/videos/670991263103207/

A Worry Plaque is a piece of plastic rubbish a child places their hand on and sends their worries to the fairies to take care of. A light flashes to indicate that the fairies have received your problem and are now taking care of it.
Sound familiar at all ??(...minus the flashing light which a prayer rarely produces!).

My friend who is a teacher has told me most teachers in her school are using the plaque and finding them brilliant for young kids with anxieties in school who all mostly have a Fairy Door at home and do now believe in fairies anyway. I asked a few friends with small kids and they do indeed seem to be big fans of fairy doors and talking to their kids about fairies.

Is it me or is worrying that Irish school principals are advocating use of use such a concept ? And that grown adults are feeding their kids this utter nonsense?
Would we not be so much better off trying to relate to our children in a way they could talk to us and not pieces of plastic or statues or tiny wooden doors? How has this evolution of the fairy even happened in our present culture?
So what do you think boards? If you have kids are you ok with Fairy Plaques?

accensi0n

LightlyGo wrote: »

So what do you think boards? If you have kids are you ok with Fairy Plagues?

Absolutely, let them all die off.

Surreptitious

Boards is gay friendly dude.

Cheerful Spring

LightlyGo wrote: »

In the last few days there's a video on facebook from the Fairy Door Company featuring Irish school principals talking about how great use of the Fairy Worry Plaque is in schools. Over 5000 people have commented in the hope of winning a plaque for their school. Among them I see many of my friends whose kids are in Educate Together schools who purposefully did not want their kids receiving a religious education but are willing to fill their heads with this nonsense.

Here's a video of what a Fairy Worry Plaque is https://youtu.be/1BLxwNlh708

Here's the video of Irish school principals waxing lyrical about how great they are : https://www.facebook.com/TheIrishFairyDoorCompany/videos/670991263103207/

A Worry Plaque is a piece of plastic rubbish a child places their hand on and sends their worries to the fairies to take care of. A light flashes to indicate that the fairies have received your problem and are now taking care of it.
Sound familiar at all ??(...minus the flashing light which a prayer rarely produces!).

My friend who is a teacher has told me most teachers in her school are using the plaque and finding them brilliant for young kids with anxieties in school who all mostly have a Fairy Door at home and do now believe in fairies anyway. I asked a few friends with small kids and they do indeed seem to be big fans of fairy doors and talking to their kids about fairies.

Is it me or is worrying that Irish school principals are advocating use of use such a concept ? And that grown adults are feeding their kids this utter nonsense?
Would we not be so much better off trying to relate to our children in a way they could talk to us and not pieces of plastic or statues or tiny wooden doors? How has this evolution of the fairy even happened in our present culture?
So what do you think boards? If you have kids are you ok with Fairy Plagues?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn Just saying Irish people have forgotten their history. Tuatha de Danann mostly like were the fairies they were here before the Celts.

LightlyGo

accensi0n wrote: »

Absolutely, let them all die off.

Haha, fixed it. That did make me laugh though.

kippy

The only issue I have is that I didn't think of it first.
Epic business.

Pretzill

I wouldn't be too worried about a faerie plague (don't think they carry diseases?)

Fostering/ encouraging imagination is a good idea -

Edit to add: not quick enough

dreamers75

This is in primary schools yeah?

LightlyGo

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn Just saying Irish people have forgotten their history. Tuatha de Danann mostly like were the fairies they were here before the Celts.

I know and I appreciate that. However learning about your cultural history and what people believed in times gone by is very different than actually regressing back beyond all sane logic and believing it yourself and teaching children to believe it.

ThisRegard

Nothing wrong with it. People for centuries have been using all sorts of methods for such things and if it makes things easier for kids let them at it.

You'll be wanting Teddy bears and other such comforters along with pets banned next as they perform the same function.

Grayson

I'm fine with it. It's not like they'll believe it when they grow up.

Harry Palmr

Fecking pagans and their superstitious culture

It seems some people just want to yell "your all gonna die" at small children.

The Backwards Man

Some people have little to bother them

freshpopcorn

It's a nice thing for kids to believe in they grow out of it in about 3rd class. It's a fun class activity writing notes to fairly and getting the kids to use their imagination.

Stephen15

LightlyGo wrote: »

In the last few days there's a video on facebook from the Fairy Door Company featuring Irish school principals talking about how great use of the Fairy Worry Plaque is in schools. Over 5000 people have commented in the hope of winning a plaque for their school. Among them I see many of my friends whose kids are in Educate Together schools who purposefully did not want their kids receiving a religious education but are willing to fill their heads with this nonsense.

Here's a video of what a Fairy Worry Plaque is https://youtu.be/1BLxwNlh708

Here's the video of Irish school principals waxing lyrical about how great they are : https://www.facebook.com/TheIrishFairyDoorCompany/videos/670991263103207/

A Worry Plaque is a piece of plastic rubbish a child places their hand on and sends their worries to the fairies to take care of. A light flashes to indicate that the fairies have received your problem and are now taking care of it.
Sound familiar at all ??(...minus the flashing light which a prayer rarely produces!).

My friend who is a teacher has told me most teachers in her school are using the plaque and finding them brilliant for young kids with anxieties in school who all mostly have a Fairy Door at home and do now believe in fairies anyway. I asked a few friends with small kids and they do indeed seem to be big fans of fairy doors and talking to their kids about fairies.

Is it me or is worrying that Irish school principals are advocating use of use such a concept ? And that grown adults are feeding their kids this utter nonsense?
Would we not be so much better off trying to relate to our children in a way they could talk to us and not pieces of plastic or statues or tiny wooden doors? How has this evolution of the fairy even happened in our present culture?
So what do you think boards? If you have kids are you ok with Fairy Plaques?

Jaysus the principal in the video is a complete ride

LightlyGo

ThisRegard wrote: »

Nothing wrong with it. People for centuries have been using all sorts of methods for such things and if it makes things easier for kids let them at it.

You'll be wanting Teddy bears and other such comforters along with pets banned next as they perform the same function.

Grayson wrote: »

I'm fine with it. It's not like they'll believe it when they grow up.

Would you fine with religion being taught to children in the hope of providing them with the same sort of temporary childish comfort?

I just feel like if we have moved beyond teaching religion for those reasons shouldn't we have set our sights higher than teaching our kids to relate to imaginary beings? Shouldn't we be evolving past this ? Shouldn't we be learning to relate to them ourselves and teaching them to talk to us about worries?

ThisRegard

LightlyGo wrote: »

Would you fine with religion being taught to children in the hope of providing them with the same sort of temporary childish comfort?

WTF, "childish comfort"?!? They are bloody children.

Cheerful Spring

LightlyGo wrote: »

I know and I appreciate that. However learning about your cultural history and what people believed in times gone by is very different than actually regressing back beyond all sane logic and believing it yourself and teaching children to believe it.

Our folklore is unique i hate to think we lose it. And don't see the harm in it.

Irish Guitarist

In my day the teachers beat you around the place for sport and you were glad of it.

LightlyGo

ThisRegard wrote: »

WTF, "childish comfort"?!? They are bloody children.

But would you feel we should teach them prayers because Mary and the angels will take care of your worry if you say them? Isn't that how you relate to religion as a child? That's what I mean by childish comfort.

Cheerful Spring

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

In my day the teachers beat you around the place for sport and you were glad of it.

I went to a school that had missionaries as teachers and those guys would kick the s--t out of you if got into trouble.

dreamers75

LightlyGo wrote: »

But would you feel we should teach them prayers because Mary and the angels will take care of your worry if you say them? Isn't that how you relate to religion as a child? That's what I mean by childish comfort.

These same kids believe in Santa.

Shocked it took 2 pages for the atheist god ****e to come out.

/also an atheist just not one of the dickhead ones.

ThisRegard

LightlyGo wrote: »

But would you feel we should teach them prayers because Mary and the angels will take care of your worry if you say them? Isn't that how you relate to religion as a child? That's what I mean by childish comfort.

Childhood must be a barrel of laughs in your house. **** off kids, there's no tooth fairy, Santa or Easter bunny, and bollox to your birthday too, Hallmark are rich enough already.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

LightlyGo wrote: »

In the last few days there's a video on facebook from the Fairy Door Company featuring Irish school principals talking about how great use of the Fairy Worry Plaque is in schools. Over 5000 people have commented in the hope of winning a plaque for their school. Among them I see many of my friends whose kids are in Educate Together schools who purposefully did not want their kids receiving a religious education but are willing to fill their heads with this nonsense.

Here's a video of what a Fairy Worry Plaque is https://youtu.be/1BLxwNlh708

Here's the video of Irish school principals waxing lyrical about how great they are : https://www.facebook.com/TheIrishFairyDoorCompany/videos/670991263103207/

A Worry Plaque is a piece of plastic rubbish a child places their hand on and sends their worries to the fairies to take care of. A light flashes to indicate that the fairies have received your problem and are now taking care of it.
Sound familiar at all ??(...minus the flashing light which a prayer rarely produces!).

My friend who is a teacher has told me most teachers in her school are using the plaque and finding them brilliant for young kids with anxieties in school who all mostly have a Fairy Door at home and do now believe in fairies anyway. I asked a few friends with small kids and they do indeed seem to be big fans of fairy doors and talking to their kids about fairies.

Is it me or is worrying that Irish school principals are advocating use of use such a concept ? And that grown adults are feeding their kids this utter nonsense?
Would we not be so much better off trying to relate to our children in a way they could talk to us and not pieces of plastic or statues or tiny wooden doors? How has this evolution of the fairy even happened in our present culture?
So what do you think boards? If you have kids are you ok with Fairy Plaques?

It's a bit of fantasy. Feck off and leave them alone. You'll be telling three-year-olds Santa's not real next.

Ipso

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

Our folklore is unique i hate to think we lose it. And don't see the harm in it.

Yes, but let's not pass the book of invasions of as real events. The tuatha de danann are more or less the celtic gods with the Fomor being the baddies.

donegaLroad

LightlyGo wrote: »

But would you feel we should teach them prayers because Mary and the angels will take care of your worry if you say them? Isn't that how you relate to religion as a child? That's what I mean by childish comfort.

Its the same concept as going to confession, tell all your sins and say a bunch of hail mary's and your slate is wiped clean.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

LightlyGo wrote: »

But would you feel we should teach them prayers because Mary and the angels will take care of your worry if you say them? Isn't that how you relate to religion as a child? That's what I mean by childish comfort.

There's a difference between teaching a religious ethos (which those who teach it believe is real) and a mythological fantasy (which those who teach it, know is fantasy).

colm_mcm

Mmmm germs!

Are Am Eye

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn Just saying Irish people have forgotten their history. Tuatha de Danann mostly like were the fairies they were here before the Celts.

Tuatha de Danann is not history but come sfrom irish mythology.
Probably rooted in peoples that migrated here in mid to late bronze age.
"Celts coming to Ireland" is not really history these days either. In the iron age we were influenced through trade, migration and culture by the peoples of northern europe - and that influence left what was afterward referred to as celtic invasion.

Where's Wibbs when you need him.

Tom Mann Centuria

Fairies were not only seen, but photographed a hundred years ago in Cottingley in the UK, so, unless you want homeless fairies everywhere they need accommodation. Give them their doors ffs.

OU812

"Children know such a lot now. Soon they don't believe. And every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies', there's a fairy someplace that falls down dead". — Peter Pan

1. It's a great idea to make kids feel more secure in themselves.
2. It's a great business extension.
3. I'd rather they had this influence than religion
4. The principle is a ride.