Children's Day has just passed. People with children, what have you done to celebrate?

Um… Isn’t every day children’s day? Most parents give up life as they knew it for them.

This is getting ridiculous, this “Today is campers day!” Today is “Hemorrhoid day.”
Everyday is children’s day, like @GloPro said.

Maybe not so ridiculous, as it’s been around for awhile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Day

I didn’t know, but I will celebrate the successful launch of my 26 yr. old daughter.
She has held her own well since she first launched into her own place at 21.
A couple dud room mates but otherwise she has done very well and I am grateful that she is not the kind of kid that feels a sense of entitlement. While I have helped her out some, she has never expected to be carried and we enjoy a peer relationship now.

Nothing. I don’t pay any credence to these arbitrary “some idiot made this up” days.

I propose National Duck and Goose day. Share your bread with a needy goose. lol

Children’s day exists? I thought that was what birthdays were for.

It strikes me as overkill. I mean, they get birthdays, Christmas, Easter…so do we adults but those holidays are far more for the children than the adults. We are out there busting our butts to make the holidays special for the kids. What is the point of having another random day set aside to do something special for kids? Is it for all the hard work they do (like parents, who get Mother’s and Father’s Day) or the sacrifices they make (like veterans)? What is the purpose? Being a kid isn’t something they chose, or worked for.

Well, it’s an international day, and as I understand it, @Mimishu1995 is not a US Fluther user. We in the US have a very different attitude about these holidays than a lot of the international community. I found the Wikipedia article to be somewhat enlightening in that regard.

It looks like the meaning and purpose of the day is misunderstood here.

From @canidmajor‘s link:
“to promote mutual exchange and understanding among children and secondly to initiate action to benefit and promote the welfare of the world’s children.”

It’s not just another day to shower your children with goodies.

OK. Well, I didn’t know a thing about it so….!

My initial reaction was the same as the majority of responses here until I opened the link and learned more about the topic. It helps to know what we’re talking about. Details are very important. :)

We celebrated by keeping all three of them alive for yet another day.

What kind of things are we expected to do, anyway?

Ummmmm, I don’t celebrate that one. Most days are childrens day.

Yeah, the OP saying it was some sort of “celebration” threw us, but it wasn’t. It was more like some sort of global awareness day or something (see @candidas link above,) so I asked what we were supposed to be doing that day?

I hid in the house. And the children didn’t bother me. Isn’t Children’s day another one of those rips dreamed up by the greeting card companies, toy and candy cabals to lighten our wallets?

Well, today I went to the fabric store and the grocery store, and left my kid at home with his grandmother.

I’m aware that the holiday is observed in most Asian countries, but to be honest I only really learned about it by watching Iron Chef, and had no idea what day it is celebrated on.

We tend not to “do” many holidays in our home, anyway. Just the really big ones – Yule/Festivus and the ones that are supposedly patriotic, but are mostly excuses to barbeque and blow things up.

Please accept my sincere apology everyone! I should have included the link to that day in my description. But I didn’t because I thought that it is an international day and assumed that everyone already had first-hand knowledge about it. Children’s Day is widely celebrated here, like Christmas and Halloween in the US. I only wanted to know how your family celebrated it. I never knew that Americans don’t have a day like that.

I think this question will enter ”@Mimishu1995’s stupid questions list”.

Not a stupid question at all, @Mimishu1995

Goodness knows we all post questions about Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day and bloody Independence Day like we assume anyone gives a crap that isn’t American. Haha.

Whoa, now! Even people with NO children should have a voice in this!
I celebrate not having children EVERY day because the children I didn’t have don’t have to live a life in this screwed up world!

Okay…I proclaim today is Pistachio Nut Day!
I just had a Pistachio Nut MIRACLE!
Only ONE nut out of the whole bag that wasn’t properly cracked! WHAT are the odds of that?!!! lol

Usually there are about 20 nuts in the bag that are uncrackable. haha

@Mimishu1995 so what does your family do to “celebrate?” I thought it was more of an “awareness” day than a celebration.

Not a stupid question at all, @Mimishu1995. If you hadn’t asked, I wouldn’t have looked it up and learned something new, an opportunity I always enjoy, which is why I gave you a Great Question. :-)

@Dutchess_III We took my brother out to various places, like the amusement park and the fast food store, and let him enjoy himself. We also invited his friend to come along. All of those places were crowded, as many people also took their children out too. I remembered having to wait in a long line of people for my turn to order in the fast food store. And the waitresses even gave us the wrong food at some point too :(

In my area there is also an anual party exclusively for children. It is held at the local park. This year there were a lot of activities but I don’t really know what they were since I wasn’t paying much attention. But the only thing I do remember is the “Good Pupil Anual Awards” part. Children with good school result would get an award: a certificate and some award which varies every year. At the end of the party all the children would be given a bag full of snack.

*Annual
*bag of snacks.

Have I mentioned your English is improving at an amazing rate? Bravo!

^ * Fast food restaurant, no?

And yes, you’re doing great!!

So in Vietnam is is a celebration? (I don’t think I could handle another one!)

@Dutchess_III Sort of, as we don’t celebrate Halloween, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas (not officially)... like in the States. It is kind of a compensation :p

Children in Vietnam only have two official celebrations: New Year’s Eve (aka Tet) and that Children’s day, so don’t be surprised.

Well, that makes much more sense. That’s cool, then. (Um…we kind of ruined your New Years that one time in 69 (I think it was.) I’m sorry.)
It sounds more like a community thing in your area too, rather than exclusively concentrating on one kid (which ever one is yours.) I would like that.

No, I can’t imagine any American going all out for yet another kids day on top of all the ones we have now! Unless their kids are unimaginably spoiled.

@Dutchess_III Do you know how much Vietnamese children (including me in the past) are jealous of American children because we have fewer kids days? ~

:( American’s are spoiled.

@Dutchess_III . . . For the record, the Tet offensive was launched by North Vietnam, not the U.S.

Well, it was a mess, anyway.