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What do I tell my kid?
#11
RE: What do I tell my kid?
I plan on taking almost the exact same route with my kid. If he asks, I will tell him that many people believe different things, and if he asks what I believe, I will tell him that I think nothing happens. I think the most important thing is to make sure you don't teach anything as a dogmatic truth and let the child come to their own conclusion.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#12
RE: What do I tell my kid?
(May 31, 2013 at 3:06 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: If that's all you be wanting for... I present to you a mystical gift from the etherfiends in the nether:

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It works.

Nice! I had a cold recently and that was my holy water.

(May 31, 2013 at 3:07 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:
(May 31, 2013 at 2:35 pm)meak Wrote: I don't believe or disbelieve anything other than that anything is possible. My 6 year old has been asking a lot of questions about what will happen when we die and I feel bad about saying "I don't know" so I lamely say what some people believe, that no one really knows and maybe he can become a scientist that invents a potion so we live forever. These are crap answers, aren't they? Can anyone give me something better so he doesn't have nightmares.

Ask him what he thinks happens and take it from there.

I think he would say he regenerates just like all the characters in cartoons and video games do. What would I say to that?
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#13
RE: What do I tell my kid?
(May 31, 2013 at 3:19 pm)meak Wrote: I think he would say he regenerates just like all the characters in cartoons and video games do. What would I say to that?

Tell him he's out of extra lives.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#14
RE: What do I tell my kid?
This is a good place for you to get a couple different books catering to kids, read with him, then discuss it.

That's what my parents did, and they did it with a Jewish bent, but they fucked up by giving me as much science and history as I wanted too.

Teaching him that people may believe a bunch of things, but that no one can really know (yet) and that it's okay to not know really IS the best thing for you to teach him. Because then he won't be subject to the fallacy many other people fall in when science doesn't know something YET.

It's okay to not know. And it's okay to break the superiority barrier between him and adults and let him know that they don't know everything. That'll cure him of listening to their shite. Just make sure he's polite about it. We sailed past my Episcopalian side of the family that way.
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#15
RE: What do I tell my kid?
The truth, always the truth.

Here are some interesting facts from the Mother Nature Network

1. Your cells burst open
2. You turn white - and purple
3. Calcium makes your muscles contract
4. Your organs digest themselves
5. You may be covered in a wax

5 weird things that happen after you die

http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-b...er-you-die
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#16
RE: What do I tell my kid?
(May 31, 2013 at 3:34 pm)cato123 Wrote: 1. Your cells burst open
2. You turn white - and purple
3. Calcium makes your muscles contract
4. Your organs digest themselves
5. You may be covered in a wax

That might a little morbid and too truthful to tell a six year-old.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#17
RE: What do I tell my kid?
I can turn... purple? Like... homogenized purple?! Confusedhock:

I'd better die, then.

(May 31, 2013 at 3:39 pm)Faith No More Wrote: That might a little morbid and too truthful to tell a six year-old.

You really underestimate the fuckers... gross and slimy? Kids want to know.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#18
RE: What do I tell my kid?
Really guys... keep it simple!


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#19
RE: What do I tell my kid?
(May 31, 2013 at 3:43 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Really guys... keep it simple!



Please tell me I don't have to have THAT talk with him yet!
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#20
RE: What do I tell my kid?
I would tell them (in your own words obviously) that:
1) Nobody really knows
2) Many people claim to know, but
3) Nobody really knows
4) Everything we know about anything came from asking questions
5) Every question is fair game
6) We don't have answers for some questions
7) Anybody who says otherwise to any of these points, should be distrusted
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