On her 15th birthday I locked my daughter in her room with some peyote and the Watchtower library and told her "don't come out until you've come up with something that can at least give Chuck Russell a run for his money".
How Do You or How Would You Religiously Educate Your Children Now?
by minimus 34 Replies latest jw friends
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restrangled
Minimus I just sent an answer and it came up as a seperate topic...don't Know why....
it is called unamed topic.....
r.
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OUTLAW
How Do You or How Would You Religiously Educate Your Children Now?.. I told them JW`s were full of crap!..My JW mom never shut up..In the end..My children are free of the Borg..
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Scarred for life
I pretty much agree with White Dove. Althought I am not a Wiccan. I raised my children in a mainstream Presbyterian and Methodist Church. But they are free to make their own choices. Nothing is forced on them. As long as their not in a cult I believe they have the right to worship as they wish.
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truthsetsonefree
Just as with anything else, I want her to understand it. She needs the kind of education WT professes to give with the Mankind's Search book. As far as belief goes I want her to have none until she is an adult. Hopefully she will abandon the hocus pocus and be spiritual and moral without having to need a religion per say. I want her to be comfortable with people of all religions, understand all.
Isaac
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AK - Jeff
We are raising our grandkids. No religious instruction.
One of them seems drawn to Jesus. All three of them seem non-plussed about the whole idea of religion. Questions seem to come up once in a while about God. We let them work thru it among themselves, sometimes admitting our own inability to understand all the answers. If they wanted to go to church, I suppose we would take them. But we are not encouraging it, one way or the other.
We talk to them about the beauty of life around us. If they end up attributing that beauty to God, then so be it. We just want them to fix their own minds on the matter without us forcing it one way or the other.
Jeff
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garybuss
I think religious training is especially important now. I train my children (adult now) and anyone else who'll listen, to be skeptical of all claims of a super or un-human nature and to not put an ounce of weight on any miracle they did not witness for themselves first hand.
The best lesson is pragmatism and the goal is objective reality. Ghosts, gods, and goblins don't have a place in a rational mind. Me thinks religious people have read too many Casper The Ghost comic books. -
yknot
My children do a combination of homeschool and university model private school..(Lutheran and non-denominational)
Religious instruction reflect both mine and hubby's POV.....
They do VBS every summer with friends from other denominations.
As far as "how"...... we read the bible as a family and sometimes textbook. Focus is often on how events relate to Jesus.
We also do workbooks on character building which satisfy both Christian and humanist POVs
I guess in many ways we are just like all Xtian homeschooling families in the USA.
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White Dove
Oh yeah, absolutely no cult contact! I always mention something of how to notice if something is cultish or not. I give my kids clues to know how to tell the difference. After getting out of one, I certainly don't want any of us in one again!
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White Dove
Yknot,
That's really good. They will be able to hold their own in just about any Christian discussion. I believe it's good to know the Bible's basic ideas and characters. The Golden Rule is most important in how to treat others and just get along. Jesus was a very good character in the book.
...OUTLAW