Expressing love and exchanging gifts on Valentine's Day will no longer remain the sole prerogative of grown-ups.
Expressing love and exchanging gifts on Valentine's Day will no longer remain the sole prerogative ofu00a0 grown-
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Kindergarten kids of a city school are all set to celebrate the lovers' day with a difference: they will bestow V-Day gifts on their pets.
Tree House, the kindergarten section of Garodia International School, Ghatkopar, has asked its students to bring their pets to school today to celebrate the day of love.
The KG section of a school at Ghatkopar has asked its students to bring their pets to school today to celebrate the day of love. The initiative is aimed at inculcating love for animals among children.
According to school authorities, the initiative is aimed at inculcating love for animals among children.
Urmi Fernandes, the coordinator of Garodia International Centre for Learning, said, "Bestowing lavish gifts on your loved ones is a ritual or a routine thing on Valentine's Day. So we decided to do something out of the box.
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We are trying to inculcate love for animals among children through the 'love your pets' initiative. If a child is not having a pet then he can make some gift in the classroom and gift it to their classmate's pet.
There will be cookies of different shapes and sizes that most pets like. While many will bring their pet dogs, some have sought permission to bring their aquarium fishes."
Archana Chopra, parent of a KG student from Garodia, said, "My 5-year-old son has decided to take his favourite fish from our aquarium to school on Valentine's Day.
My child is very excited. He is eager to show his Valentine (the fish) to his friends."
Simultaneously, the school has organised Grandparents' Day on the occasion to helpu00a0 children reunite with their beloved grandma and grandpa.
Both maternal and paternal grandparents have been invited to participate in the event as children share a special bond with them.
Rajesh Bhatia, founder and managing director of Tree House Pre-school, said, "Now many children have hardly any attachment with their grandparents because of increasing trend of nuclear families.
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With people shifting jobs and cities very often, joint families are falling apart, making the kids devoid of unconditional love and affection of their grandparents and elderly relatives."
V-DAY TRIVIA
- During Medieval times, girls ate unusual foods on St. Valentine's Day to have a dream of their future husband.
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- February 15th was the date of the Roman festival of Lupercalia, where young men held a lottery to decide which girl would be theirs.
- Some people believed that if a woman saw a robin-flying overhead on Valentine's Day, it meant she would marry a sailor and if she saw a sparrow, she would marry a poor man and be very happy.
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