Reddit reviews In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
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The most important thing you can do is promote critical thinking, which will undermine anything dad does.
Stress the following:
Also pick up the books 'Parenting Beyond Belief' and 'In Faith and In Doubt' by Dale McGowan
What she think about Jesus is her choice, not daddys and not mommys. So long as you allow her to express herself, and experiment with beliefs, and question everything, and you expose her to science, you'll probably be okay.
https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Creation-Stories-Around-World/dp/0152387420
Exposure dillutes potentcy.
I always try to encourage her to learn anything science related. And we actually try to expose her to all the beliefs of as many religions she is interested in. We got her this last Christmas. We've never told her what she should believe although she does ask us what we believe a lot. And not matter what you say or do, for a while they'll try to emulate. We always try to stress that it's ok for her and her friends to all believe in different things and it's what makes the world go round (no point into getting into how fanatical Islam is doing this or Extremist Fundamentalist Christians are doing that...she's 7). And that what she thinks now might not be the same thing she thinks down the road.
For us we went to a great workshop/seminar with Dale MacOwan which had some good ways of dealing with parenting in the midst of a lot of religious people. Common issues, etc.
In the end it's never her behavior I question or worry about, it's when/if her little friends try to pressure her into anything , which includes religion. She's even relayed a few times where kids have started to just get angry and tell her "She's dumb for not believing in Jesus" or how can she not. And she repeats her little refrain that she told them "it's ok to believe in different things." She's like a little ambassador for getting-along for humanities sake. So far it hasn't failed her. I just expect the parents at some points to be the real dicks with ostracizing. Hope they prove me wrong.
Check out In The Beginning: Creation Stories From Around The World. My son loved the stories, and wanted me to read more and saw how they all sort of sounded alike. We checked it out from the library
Perhaps you could read from In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World.
Its worst review on Goodreads had the following to say:
> I found the stories – which spanned three to five pages – to be lacking. They were interesting concepts, and I think that children would enjoy them, but for me, it was too brief and too bland.
So the stories are short, and judging by the excerpt available on Amazon, I can very well imagine that with a bit of voice acting, a child might like them.
> I recommend In the Beginning: Creation Stories From Around the World by Virginia Hamilton. It is beautifully illustrated. My young kids loved it. We read one story each night and it prompted awesome conversations.
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My strategy when my kids were younger was to teach them about as many religions as possible.
I would recommend In The Beginning as a way to bring up religions. It is a book that explains the creation stories of many different cultures around the world. The Christian version is in there too, called 'Yaweh the Creator'. This is a way to not give any one religion special significance, but show how there are common themes across them all.
I'm atheist, wife is agnostic/nonreligious. Her family is devout catholic, mine is baptist.
I'm pretty strict in my atheism. I don't flaunt it, but I don't suffer fools either. So there have been discussions when I see family attempting to indoctrinate my son's trusting mind.
Early on, we decided not to sacrifice relationships over this. But instead of focusing on staying away from Christianity, we've flooded him with all the legend, myth and story we can shovel into him. I'm a b ig fan of Irish Myth, and the Cuchalain stories are fantastic. I was also recommended In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World in this forum and D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths which is his favorite book right now.
Our tact will be to make him drink from a firehose so that it's all just stories and nothing will have the opportunity to take hold until we can better explain the virtues and pitfalls of dogmas.
I am sure these have been mentioned somewhere but I can't find them.
I have a 4 year old and a 6 year old. My husband and I are atheist as well.
Two books that are well loved here are: In the Beginning and What Do You Believe?
Well this is older but it's a pretty famous one and has likely been translated. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0152387420/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_ErloDbY1EXZQN
I've got a little ways to go (14 mo. old), but the following books have been recommended in other threads and have been on my wish list a while and might be helpful:
In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion
On the scouts question, from what I've read the scouts in the US patently don't allow atheists, so I'm pretty much planning on avoiding them entirely unless at the boy's request. Luckily I live in an area that sports a large number of non-religious folks so I'm hoping that through friends and such we'll get our fair share of camping and outdoorsy stuff without resorting to scouts.