{"id":1471,"date":"2014-11-21T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vac\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2014-11-22T17:59:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T17:59:03","slug":"explaning-thanksgiving-to-our-au-pairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vac\/2014\/11\/21\/explaning-thanksgiving-to-our-au-pairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining Thanksgiving to our Au Pairs!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving is next Thursday, November 27th. So what\u2019s it all about? Thanksgiving can be traced back to 1863 when Lincoln became the first president to proclaim Thanksgiving Day. The holiday has been a fixture of late November ever since. The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the Mayflower were originally members of the English Separatist Church. They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland (The Netherlands) to escape religious persecution. Seeking a better life, the Separatists negotiated with a London stock company to finance a pilgrimage to America.<\/p>\n

\"-1\"<\/a>The Pilgrims set ground at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. Their first winter was devastating. They lost 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the Mayflower.<\/i> But the harvest of 1621 was a bountiful one. And the remaining colonists decided to celebrate with a feast – including 91 native Americans who had helped the Pilgrims survive their first year. It is believed that the Pilgrims would not have made it through the year without the help of the native Americans. The feast was more of a traditional English harvest festival and lasted three days. \"-2\"<\/a>It was Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor, whose efforts eventually led to what we recognize as Thanksgiving today. Hale wrote many editorials championing her cause in her Boston Ladies’ Magazine,<\/i> and later, in Godey’s Lady’s Book.<\/i> Finally, after a 40-year campaign of writing editorials and letters to governors and presidents, Hale’s obsession became a reality when, in 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the last<\/i> Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving. \"-3\"<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

In 1941, Thanksgiving was finally sanctioned by Congress as a legal holiday, as the fourth<\/em> Thursday<\/span> in November. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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To Learn more about the history and traditions of this holiday go to:<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/thanksgiving\/videos#history-of-the-thanksgiving-holiday<\/a><\/p>\n

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Find fun activities to do with the children here:<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/aupairinamerica\/fall-halloween-thanksgiving\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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