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Originally Posted by Stinger How about raising your child with NO religion? My mother comes from a religious family, but I was never raised according to any religious standards. They didn't babtise me because they wanted me to decide for myself if I wanted to when I would be older. I was taught the value of the bible, but I was also taught that God might not be real. They gave me a taste of everything, not just a small little corner of a closed and biased world where, just to name something, they don't even remember what a common thing such as milk tastes like because they refuse to drink it.
If you, as a religious person cannot raise your kid in any other form than your own personal religion, than you can ask yourself the question whether or not it would be a good idea to take lessons in how to be open minded towards everything else. AND how to pass that on to your children.
There's a difference between raising a kid and molding a kid. I know that I was born in an open minded and highly tolerant country where conservatives do not dominate, but even for a closed minded place such as America I find this idea going a bit too far.
But ah, when the kid is older the kid won't know any better. Everyone does to and with their offspring what they want. Some will just have a little more trouble with their kids once they hit puberty than others. |
Each parent has their own way to raise their children, I'm not saying one is better than the other and I'm not saying one is worse. If parents who are devout to one religion want to raise their child the way they were raised in that religion, more power to them. If they want to raise their children as your parents did you, more power to them. It's all a matter of preference. All I was trying to say that is for some people, if they feel really strongly on an issue or it's just part of who they are (such as religion for many), it could be hard to instill other values in your children. Now there's nothing to say that someone raised in a religion or a way of eating will never want to deviate from how they were raised. It may be harder for some to try something new, but that's not always going to be the case.
PS. You guys do realize that we're talking about a 2 and a half year old....right? How is a child that age supposed to decide what to eat and what not to? Exactly, it's the parents job. Even parents who feed their child meat and go by a regular diet decide what to fix their children and what not to. Most likely they're not going to fix things for the family to eat that they themselves don't eat. So they too are making choices for their child. Is that wrong too?