A bit late to the party here but i'll share my experience.
My wife wanted to baptize my son. I objected.
I basically said that if my son chooses to believe in a god when he is older then it will be his decision and that he may not even choose a christian based religion, so that she is probably jumping the gun a little bit.
Took several days of discussion and horse trading but basically she won the right to take him to be baptized as long as she did not feed him any religion, just for him to treat it as a bit of fun, and also that I did not have to attend.
My wife isn't heavily religious, probably closer to deist than theist, but she has her upbringing which influences her. I need to make sure my kids don't get influenced with the same and are brought up with a good knowledge of science and reality.
Its actually funny in a way, because after my wife's grandad died she made the mistake of saying that Grandad has gone up to the sky. Now my kids ask whether they can see Grandad if they fly in a plane etc. Whenever these conversations come up i give my wife a look that basically says "This is your mess, you fix it". When the kids ask me directly I tell them that nobody knows for sure, but that I believe nothing happens when you die, you just go to sleep forever.
Raising kids is perhaps one of the most difficult jobs in the world to do right...
My wife wanted to baptize my son. I objected.
I basically said that if my son chooses to believe in a god when he is older then it will be his decision and that he may not even choose a christian based religion, so that she is probably jumping the gun a little bit.
Took several days of discussion and horse trading but basically she won the right to take him to be baptized as long as she did not feed him any religion, just for him to treat it as a bit of fun, and also that I did not have to attend.
My wife isn't heavily religious, probably closer to deist than theist, but she has her upbringing which influences her. I need to make sure my kids don't get influenced with the same and are brought up with a good knowledge of science and reality.
Its actually funny in a way, because after my wife's grandad died she made the mistake of saying that Grandad has gone up to the sky. Now my kids ask whether they can see Grandad if they fly in a plane etc. Whenever these conversations come up i give my wife a look that basically says "This is your mess, you fix it". When the kids ask me directly I tell them that nobody knows for sure, but that I believe nothing happens when you die, you just go to sleep forever.
Raising kids is perhaps one of the most difficult jobs in the world to do right...
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