Why do we celebrate birthdays?
But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids
Vermont Public
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Why do we celebrate birthdays? Why do we have birthday cakes? Why do we blow out candles on our birthdays? Why are our birthdays on the same date but a different day of the week each year? This episode has answers to all of your birthday questions - plus we hear about unique birthday traditions sent in by our listeners!
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| 0:00.0 | Oh This is But Why? A podcast for Curious Kids from Vermont Public. I'm Jane Lindholm. |
| 0:26.0 | On this show, we take questions from Curious Kids just like you, and we find answers. |
| 0:32.0 | This week, we're focusing on a special date that comes |
| 0:35.0 | around once per year but on a different day for each of us. Almost all of us |
| 0:40.8 | celebrate this special day, |
| 0:42.6 | and while there's only one of these for you, |
| 0:45.5 | you'll likely celebrate pretty frequently, |
| 0:48.4 | especially if you have a big family or lots of friends. |
| 0:51.8 | We're talking about birthdays. |
| 0:54.0 | Why do people have birthdays? |
| 1:00.6 | My name is Alex. Why do we celebrate birthdays? Because my birthday's tomorrow. |
| 1:07.0 | Happy belated birthday, Alex. For that matter, happy belated or early birthday to every single one of you. Now the way you celebrate |
| 1:15.6 | your birthday might depend on where you live and on your family or household or |
| 1:19.6 | cultural traditions. Sure a lot of households have a cake or sing happy birthday or light |
| 1:24.2 | candles or give the birthday person a present. But birthday celebrations are as |
| 1:28.7 | different as each person on the planet. We asked you to tell us what you do for your birthday and |
| 1:35.0 | here's what a few of you told us. Hi I'm Julius I'm 10 years old I live in Ottawa |
| 1:42.1 | Ontario, Canada and on my birthday, I usually eat Vietnamese |
| 1:46.4 | foe soup for dinner, and I try to convince my parents to let me stay home from school. |
| 1:52.2 | My name is Ivy. I'm 7 years old and I live in LA, California. |
| 1:57.3 | My birthday tradition that me and my family share is we get to eat breakfast in bed. It could be cake or cereal. My name is |
| 2:06.8 | Adrienne. I'm 10 years old and I live in Colorado. My usual birthday today is listening to the song as Captain Zoom |
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