(December 19, 2014 at 7:46 pm)simplemoss Wrote: My point is you "shouldn't let your wife" take your kids too church you should all go as a family, and show your kid that its okay too go to church, after all its just reading a few poems and singing a few songs. Just don't go every week and make it an obsession. And always be there too answer questions, and offer another point of view
like my atheist mother did with me
That's actually not a bad idea, but, for me, going to church is like going to the dentist. The last time I went, I was bribed with $20 to go, and it would take a lot more than that to get me to go again. Plus, my wife is Catholic, and their services are particularly painful to sit through.
My main concern is to get him interested in the scientific method and to teach him to inquire and explore on his own, because I believe that, as a parent, the best approach is to give a kid the proper tools to come to their own conclusions, rather than just force a conclusion upon them.
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
