Anthiest or non-practicing parents: How do you deal with raising your kids. In my area most people are Lutheran or Catholic. I don't want my kids to be anything, but want them to keep their minds open. If when they are older, they become connected to something, so be it, but I won't brainwash them with Sunday School, especially since I don't believe in god or Jesus in the typical Christian way, My wife and I are open to a higher power/ spirit, just not the bible. If you are here to tell me I am an awful parent for keeping my kid from christianity, you are the kind of person who makes me right about religious people. Let me ask this question and judge not.
2006-08-06 12:53:42 · 9 answers · asked by Jester 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I AM NOT JUDGING YOU; HOWEVER, I AM A CHRISTIAN. AS LONG AS YOU ARE OPEN TO A HIGHER POWER, YOU ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING IN GUIDING YOUR CHILD. GOOD LUCK TO YOU!!! A HIGHER POWER/SPIRIT IS WHAT TRULY SPIRITUALITY IS ALL ABOUT. PEACE
2006-08-06 12:58:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
What religious people wish is that children simply grew to be the way we told them to be. But what every parent realizes is that children do as we do, not as we say.
Taking a child to chuch or posting the Decalogue or the Beatitudes on a wall doesn't teach anything. If you want your children to become good and open-minded adults, you have to set a lifelong example by being good and open-minded yourselves.
Sadly, this makes parenting much more difficult. On the plus side, it also means that you do not need a church to teach virtue, which is a great boon to those of us who don't believe in teaching fairy-tales as facts.
2006-08-06 13:09:23 · answer #2 · answered by Steve 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With education, u teach them about all religions as well as science and let them make up they're own minds. My parents did it with me. They where never involved with church but when i was 5 my best friend was the ministers daughter, they let me go to church every Sunday because i wanted too, after about 4 years i stopped going and got really interested in converting to Judaism, that lasted till i was about 14 and i started learning more about science and evolution and i have been an atheist ever since. My parents gave me the space and education i needed to make my own choice, i have a great understanding about other ppls religion and culture but my beliefs are my own and they are stronger because they were not forced on me.
2006-08-06 13:07:41 · answer #3 · answered by bobatemydog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not believing in any sort of after-life, it would be hypocritical of me to teach them all of the religious stories that I was brought up with.
I was about twelve when one Sunday the family was getting ready to go to church. I said," Mom I wish you wouldn't make me go with you". She asked why. I told her that I just didn't believe in all of that supernatural stuff that I hear over and over.
She said that she knows that I could recite ver vabim most of the sermons, so if they don't make sense to be by then, hearing them many more times wouldn't do it either, so there was no point in going.
My daughter graduated from a Lutheran college. She understood the religious studies so well that she helped many of her friends complete their religious assignments. She herself is one hundred percent non-religious.
Unlike my daughter and me, my son has no interest in religion at all.
2006-08-06 13:14:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm from the Bible Belt. no longer in basic terms have been my mum and dad Christian, so exchange into each and every person else around me. My mum and dad are ineffective, so i could think of they do no longer experience lots of something. so some distance as being "apprehensive" one among your toddlers could be atheist, does no longer or no longer that's greater powerful to confirm they're common, common, hardworking, efficient individuals of society who're type to human beings? That concerns a heap greater desirable than which faith they espouse (or in the event that they eschew faith altogether). after all, in spite of in the event that they're non secular, they could decide for a faith different from yours; are you waiting for that result? What in the event that they convert to Judaism, Islam, or Buddhism? What in the event that they connect the Mormon church? With all due appreciate, there are some distance greater desirable issues commanding your power and interest at present. Peace.
2016-10-01 13:31:46 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same way you do everything else with children.
You give them honest explanations based on their maturity.
Religion is only one of thousands of different topics that will arise while raising children and you deal with every one of them the same way: honest answers they can understand.
And, children learn far more from what they see their parents do than what their parents say.
2006-08-06 13:10:19 · answer #6 · answered by Left the building 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do "people of faith" assume that atheists are "people of no moral structure?" You can still raise your children to be good, healthy, open minded people. You don't need to attend dogmatic rituals or buy specific holy texts to have a personal belief system to pass on to your kids.
2006-08-06 13:00:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I cannot judge you. God reserves that right for Himself. God bless.
2006-08-06 14:07:32 · answer #8 · answered by stullerrl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
welcome or not, just raise them
read Dr. Spock
~ Pagan Christian
2006-08-06 12:59:39 · answer #9 · answered by Beorh House 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋