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When children feel excluded because of religious differences

My daughter came home from her friend's house asking why we don't celebrate Christmas like they do and I don't know how to explain our Jewish traditions without making her feel left out of everything at school.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The parent navigates the tension between maintaining cultural identity and their child's desire for social belonging.

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