2007-02-15 09:34:01 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't. I teach them to think for themselves. I even get a perverse pleasure when they contradict me, and think to myself, "This skill will serve you well later in life, little rebel."
2007-02-15 09:36:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Hide the control to the cable box.
Seriously, I teach them that subservience is something that they need to learn to fake well. Some teachers demand it. It is always a good start with police officers (although, thank dog, I haven't gone through that with them).
With me I try to teach them honesty. If they have a problem with something I tell them to do, I want them to tell me up front. It doesn't mean they will get their way but I will listen.
If, on the other hand, they say they will do something and then ignore it, that's when the remote vanishes.
2007-02-15 09:36:31 · answer #2 · answered by Dave P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I waited a minute to answer your question because it was fully loaded and I truly wanted to see the answers you would receive. I am theist. My children are 7(2boys) and 9(girl). I have never raised them to be subservient. I do my best to teach them the difference between right and wrong. This has nothing to do with God and God is not used as a threat in my house. I teach them not to lie by explaining to them how much it hurts the person you lied to. Example, we are going to chuckie cheeses, wait 5 min, no I lied. how does that feel? I teach them to be respectful until you are being disrespected no matter who is being disrespectful child or adult, then they need to stand up for themselves. Like making my daughter tell the adult who cut in line in front of her, that just because shes little doesn't give them the right to treat her as such. As punishments, they lose their TV time, X-Box time, go to a corner, write sentences. Whatever works to make them understand what they did is wrong. You do what you have to do to raise them to be moral responsible caring adults, with or without God.
As for their learning of God I take them to church. simple.
2007-02-15 09:50:48 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would I teach my children "subservience"? Isn't it better to teach them equality so that they will come to understand their true worth as a human being?
2007-02-15 09:40:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not keen on the word subservience. But mine are disciplined by reward and (non-physical) punishment. So far, two pretty wonderful, happy, and reasonably well-behaved children, as far as I can see.
Like all parents I assume my kids are brilliant, or at least bright enough not to be persuaded by the idea of some invisible baddie who will send them to hell if they pick their noses or something.
2007-02-15 09:39:18 · answer #5 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am Christian, but reading questions like this make me wonder how I belong to the same group as nitwits like you. If you need a bible and God to teach your children how to be respectable people, than you are just a bad parent!
I beleive in some kind of higher power, but he does not raise my children, I do!
2007-02-15 09:39:45 · answer #6 · answered by answerman 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Standard parenting practices. At a young age children learn and do what they're told, they have to for evolutionary and survival reasons.
The main difference is that there is no child abuse by telling them they have an invisible friend who will send them to hell for eternity if they don't believe in him.
Also when they grow older they can make decisions for themselves, and their morality will grow beyond the childish preconventional stages most christians are at.
2007-02-15 09:38:40 · answer #7 · answered by Mike K 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Subservience? I wouldn't teach my child that, god or no god.
I taught them respect for everyone. Seemed good.
2007-02-15 09:37:33 · answer #8 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I don’t want them subservient. I want them to be respectful, but not “subservient”. It’s easy, when they say something disrespectful, they get punished. It works even better than empty threats of hell.
2007-02-15 09:40:13 · answer #9 · answered by A 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In wicca (or Paganism), some of us teach our children to fear their elders and that they may befriend anyone they wish but they must not go to any of their friends religious services for they will be contaminating themselves and causing a great dishonor tothemselves, their family, and their religion.
Pagan Princess
2007-02-15 09:42:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why would someone want to teach their children to be useful in an inferior capacity, or to serve to promote some end, or to be in extreme compliance or abject obedience in a cringing manner of one very conscious of a subordinate position ???
i'll teach them to be good people, treat others with respect, and think for themselves.
2007-02-15 09:39:42 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋