Birthday celebration at kindergarten and family

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to find out how the birthdays of preschool children in Czech kindergartens and in the family environment are celebrated at the present time. In the theoretical part, the goal is a deeper insight into the topic of festive moments of childhood and the importance of rituals in pre-school and family education. The thesis points out that positive experience in early childhood significantly affect the child's future life and bring him many values that he can rely on in adulthood. The practical part describes the results of qualitative research conducted with preschool teachers and parents of preschool children. This research investigation has contributed to the knowledge of how preschool children's birthdays are celebrated in different types of kindergartens and in families with preschool children. The benefit of this finding is the set of rituals for the theme of children's birthday celebrations, usable both in the family and in preschool education, which complements family care