We had a little girl at the Leipzig Solstice last year, 4 years old IIRC. She loved it. Of course she didn’t speak any English, so I don’t know if the talk of death would have bothered her if she did, but people and candles and singing isn’t a hard sell to a small kid.
After some consideration, I decided the NYC event is rated PG-13. Children are welcome and encouraged so long as parents think it’s a good idea.
Content notes include:
discussion of death and extinction, which may be either scary or long-winded-and-boring depending on your child
There will be a moment of darkness/silence, but I’ll be publicly stating that it’s okay if we have babies crying during that section—we’re hear to experience sacredness together but we’re also here to be people/community together and that means accepting that sometimes kids are cranky)
If you feel like your kid needs a break, you can take them to the downstairs Social Hall, where people who are into winter celebrations but not into singing will be hanging out.
If there is demand for it, we might set up some manner of day-care thing for parents who want to bring their kids, who want experience the Darkness™ but don’t necessarily want their kid to.
Is this the kind of event you can bring a Small Child to?
We had a little girl at the Leipzig Solstice last year, 4 years old IIRC. She loved it. Of course she didn’t speak any English, so I don’t know if the talk of death would have bothered her if she did, but people and candles and singing isn’t a hard sell to a small kid.
After some consideration, I decided the NYC event is rated PG-13. Children are welcome and encouraged so long as parents think it’s a good idea.
Content notes include:
discussion of death and extinction, which may be either scary or long-winded-and-boring depending on your child
There will be a moment of darkness/silence, but I’ll be publicly stating that it’s okay if we have babies crying during that section—we’re hear to experience sacredness together but we’re also here to be people/community together and that means accepting that sometimes kids are cranky)
If you feel like your kid needs a break, you can take them to the downstairs Social Hall, where people who are into winter celebrations but not into singing will be hanging out.
If there is demand for it, we might set up some manner of day-care thing for parents who want to bring their kids, who want experience the Darkness™ but don’t necessarily want their kid to.