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RE: What do I tell my kid?
May 31, 2013 at 3:16 pm
I plan on taking almost the exact same route with my kid. If he asks, I will tell him that many people believe different things, and if he asks what I believe, I will tell him that I think nothing happens. I think the most important thing is to make sure you don't teach anything as a dogmatic truth and let the child come to their own conclusion.
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RE: What do I tell my kid?
May 31, 2013 at 3:26 pm
(May 31, 2013 at 3:19 pm)meak Wrote: I think he would say he regenerates just like all the characters in cartoons and video games do. What would I say to that?
Tell him he's out of extra lives.
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RE: What do I tell my kid?
May 31, 2013 at 3:32 pm
This is a good place for you to get a couple different books catering to kids, read with him, then discuss it.
That's what my parents did, and they did it with a Jewish bent, but they fucked up by giving me as much science and history as I wanted too.
Teaching him that people may believe a bunch of things, but that no one can really know (yet) and that it's okay to not know really IS the best thing for you to teach him. Because then he won't be subject to the fallacy many other people fall in when science doesn't know something YET.
It's okay to not know. And it's okay to break the superiority barrier between him and adults and let him know that they don't know everything. That'll cure him of listening to their shite. Just make sure he's polite about it. We sailed past my Episcopalian side of the family that way.
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RE: What do I tell my kid?
May 31, 2013 at 3:39 pm
(May 31, 2013 at 3:34 pm)cato123 Wrote: 1. Your cells burst open
2. You turn white - and purple
3. Calcium makes your muscles contract
4. Your organs digest themselves
5. You may be covered in a wax
That might a little morbid and
too truthful to tell a six year-old.
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RE: What do I tell my kid?
May 31, 2013 at 3:43 pm
Really guys... keep it simple!
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RE: What do I tell my kid?
May 31, 2013 at 4:42 pm
I would tell them (in your own words obviously) that:
1) Nobody really knows
2) Many people claim to know, but
3) Nobody really knows
4) Everything we know about anything came from asking questions
5) Every question is fair game
6) We don't have answers for some questions
7) Anybody who says otherwise to any of these points, should be distrusted
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