(May 31, 2022 at 11:51 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:(May 25, 2022 at 7:15 pm)Belacqua Wrote: It means that it's not practical to wait until a child is 11 or 12 to discuss religion.
Ah, I didn't take Bruce as literally as maybe I should have, I thought he meant a 'talk' like the birds and the bees, only for religion. Of course children are going to be exposed to religion before they're eleven, and that should be addressed in an age-appropriate manner when it comes up.
Yes, that's the kind of thing I was thinking about.
My niece has four-year-old twins. Before she had them she got a master's degree in music therapy and early childhood development. So she has been very particular about the kind of input her kids get, and what media they're exposed to, that kind of thing. And of course half their lives have been during Covid lockdown, so she's had about as much control over exposure as you can have, short of living on a desert island.
But kids are such incredible sponges, that after a few hours at pre-school, or a walk through Walmart, they know all kinds of things that they didn't know before. And it's no good pretending those things don't exist -- religion is all over, and they need to talk about it.
