Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War – a sacred holiday. It is day of great joy and pride, but also the same great grief as our people got a victory awful, incredibly high price. Time is relentless, remains participants of this great war less. And for new generations that May day 1945 – far and not really clear abstraction. For this reason on the senior generations the special responsibility lays down to leave the memory of this day.
It is necessary that children knew that they are citizens of the state which made the greatest contribution to defeat of Hitlerite Germany knew what price our people got peaceful life, and honored a feat of ancestors. Very well A.S. Pushkin told: "It is possible to be proud of glory of the ancestors not only, but also has to. Not to respect it, there is a shameful cowardice!" As it is better to tell children about the Victory Day? It depends on many circumstances, first of all on age of children. Try to be at such loss for words that it was clear and interesting, at the same time keep from heavy details – everything is good in its season. If in your city there is a monument to the died soldiers, surely lead the kid there, put flowers. Tell it that this monument is put in honor of brave people who protected that earth on which it goes now. In brief describe the reasons of war and its course. If in your sort there were veterans, you store their awards and medals, by all means show awards to the child, explain to whom and for what they were given. If letters from the front remained – surely read them to the kid aloud with comments. Put emphasis here on what: all citizens of our country wanted to live peacefully and quietly, but they had to go to be at war to save the Homeland from the bitter and strong enemy. Including his ancestors were at war. Try that the child was reached by the main thing: it was very heavy, terrible war, but our people stood and won. And in this victory his great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers that today's children could quietly made the contribution, without being afraid of anybody, to live, to raise, study in our country. It has to be proud of them. It is possible to read the kid verses, stories about war or to show the movie. For this purpose choose age-appropriate - as such where there are no especially heavy scenes. Try also that the child understood: our ancestors were at war not with the German people, and with its criminal government.