RE: I told my little girl about angels yesterday...
August 30, 2017 at 11:32 am
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2017 at 11:33 am by Jehanne.)
(August 30, 2017 at 11:19 am)Mathilda Wrote: Or you could come up with complete wacky explanations yourself that you know they'll figure out as being wrong pretty soon. Like when we die we become non-corporeal space aardvarks that float around the galaxy but most people generally prefer to live on the dark side of the moon in this solar system.
Do that all the time and she will learn to question everything that you tell her. She'll learn how to tell that you are telling her bullshit (e.g. she'll ask why an aardvark?). As she grows up it will become a habit and natural to also question similar levels of wackiness that other people actually do believe in such as angels, gods, demons and souls.
Oh, I agree that at some point one, as a parent, has to quit! But, it's a choice of comforting a small, little girl who did not understand the solar eclipse of a week ago but who enjoyed it nonetheless, except when the insects started going crazy during the moment of totality and started attacking her, albeit, briefly! By the way, I am not the final authority in my children's lives, which lies, for me, with modern scholarship. In that regard, I introduce my children to such sources, something which my parents never did for me, and I suffered as a child because of that.
