I'm not talking about religious deprogramming. He is just extremely permissive and he has no job so he spends every minute with them with no agenda so he lets them stay up super late and sleep in late. He doesn't make them do anything or even speak to him to get what they want. All this combines into the kids reverting to infantile behavior that we are trying to train out of them so they can be successful in life.
One of the worst things is that he takes no responsibility for being out of work so the way he discusses his joblessness with the kids makes them think that jobs are magic things that just happen by wishes and happenstance. My son actually told me how he wishes on stars for his daddy to get a job. GRRR It's all good I supppose because they will be around me most of the time and I tell them how the world really works. They are starting to get it and my son is starting to become less credulous and is employing evidence based thinking. Like when a kid at school tells him he used to be a pro-wrestler... he asks for pictures instead of just believing. The girl, well that is a different story.
She once told me about God and how he lives "up there" and watches us. I asked her who told her about that and she told me that she has just always known that. *sigh* Well, I'm certainly not going to train them to be atheists because that would give them something to rebel against or would just turn them into parrots. BRAACK "There is no God" "Christians are stupid" BRAACK
One of the worst things is that he takes no responsibility for being out of work so the way he discusses his joblessness with the kids makes them think that jobs are magic things that just happen by wishes and happenstance. My son actually told me how he wishes on stars for his daddy to get a job. GRRR It's all good I supppose because they will be around me most of the time and I tell them how the world really works. They are starting to get it and my son is starting to become less credulous and is employing evidence based thinking. Like when a kid at school tells him he used to be a pro-wrestler... he asks for pictures instead of just believing. The girl, well that is a different story.
She once told me about God and how he lives "up there" and watches us. I asked her who told her about that and she told me that she has just always known that. *sigh* Well, I'm certainly not going to train them to be atheists because that would give them something to rebel against or would just turn them into parrots. BRAACK "There is no God" "Christians are stupid" BRAACK
