4 year old pushes religion on my kid...

by flower 46 Replies latest social family

  • Princess
    Princess
    The questioning may be annoying,

    I don't find the questions annoying. It's just hard to find an answer that will satisfy my children. My son sees right through a lot of the bible stories. He realized at age seven that no one knows if Jesus was real because no one alive has ever seen him. He knows that no one really knows what happens at death because no one alive has ever been dead. So, annoying is the wrong word. He's smart and needs a real answer. He doesn't necessarily think mom and dad have all the answers because 1. we have never personally seen Jesus and 2. we have never died.

    My kids know that daddy says a prayer every night at dinner but mom doesn't. If dad isn't home for dinner, they get to just dig in. My son asked me why and I told him I just don't feel the need to do that right now. If daddy wants to pray, then we will but if he is gone then you are on your own.

    The questions are encouraging to me. They show me my kids are thinking about these things and already starting the process of critical thinking (LT) at an early age. I never would have questioned any of the things my son does. We read the story of the garden of eden and he basically dismissed it as ridiculous...at age 6. I know he will never sit still and let someone feed him bs like the WTS does.

    My daughter will never sit still...period. She won't let anyone tell her anything at the ripe old age of five. She questions every single thing we say. She will always ask "Is it true?" or she'll ask another source to see if we really know what we are talking about.

  • Mulan
    Mulan

    Hehehehe. Those are my grandchildren. Amazing minds in such little people. Am I proud or what?

  • LittleToe
    LittleToe

    It's great to hear about such discerning kids.
    You girls deserve to be proud. You are giving them something better than you recieved. What a legacy, and surely something that every generation desires to do (hence why some little ratbags get spoilt rotten ).

    It's a questioning generation, where less is accepted at face value.
    The greatest joy, to my mind, is knowing that in such a climate the WTS's days are likely numbered (along with a few other edifices).

  • little witch
    little witch

    All day I have had this comparative thought..here goes...

    You walk into a pet shop. You step up to a cute little bird that says, "bugger off"

    Now it is either funny or insulting...

    Do you smack down the bird for parroting? Do you go to the store owner and complain?

    The bird is mimicking what it has been trained, and the store owner can neither stop the bird from it's behavior, nor should.

    Same scenerio with your child flower. It really is no big deal.

    Another scenario....A new bride calls her best friend up on the phone, hysterical. She is very upset..." My husband is peeing on the toilet seat, and will not lift it up. Is he doing this just to make me mad? Is he trying to make a statement"?

    The friend replies, " Gawd, when he gets drunk and fu*ks your sister call me back"!

    LOL

    Point being, it is maybe a bigger deal to you than to your little one. Sorry for the levity but I hope it conveys my meaning.

  • LittleToe
    LittleToe

    LW:
    Is the "bird" the feathered variety?
    Just checking

  • little witch
    little witch

    Yes Toe, feathered...LOLOLOL

  • little witch
    little witch

    Here is the feller

  • little witch
    little witch

    bird compliments of Country Girl...

    sorry hon for being a ali-baba.....

  • flower
    flower

    The title of my post was more of a joke than anything people.

    I was well aware that the child is just innocently repeating what he heard thanks for the cute analogy though lw. My point and the issue I had was not with the child nor his parents. They can believe whatever they want to believe and if my child at some point hears those beleifs I am not going to be upset with anyone. That is as it should be and I'm sure my child will at some point express our beliefs (or non beliefs).

    My issue was with the school, that I pay a large sum of money to each week to take care of and educate my son, letting it continue on repeatedly and giving my child 'continuious' exposure to a religious belief. Religous discussion is against the school policy but you cannot help what little kids will say and that is understandable. But when a kid is repeatedly doing it then I think its well within a parents right to mention it. Some people might have let it go a little longer than 4 days but for obvious reasons I have less patience than others when it comes to christianity and the control/fear that accompanies it.

    That being said, its really not a major issue as was mentioned. The bigger issue to me is that my kid is growing up too damn fast! I just registered him for kindergarten yesterday!

  • LittleToe
    LittleToe

    Flower:

    ...christianity and the control/fear that accompanies it.

    Ya'know, it isn't all about that. Granted we've all had a really bad experience with a group that claims to be Christian, but not all "belief" (for want of a better word) is like that. Also, I'll grant you that many religions use some level of control, but probably no more than the government.
    Now if the wee kid had said that he was worried that his pet had gone to hell, and was looking around corners like a paranoic, maybe you'd have a point

    The bigger issue to me is that my kid is growing up too damn fast!

    TOO damn fast!
    My little nephew is three, this year, and is surprising me every time I visit.
    Ya should have seen him in that wee kilt, at the wedding. He was "mini-me"!!!
    LOL

    Ya gonna post some pics, sometime?

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