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Author Topic:   Teaching Children Both Sides
anastasia
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Message 17 of 62 (414333)
08-03-2007 8:30 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Dragoness
08-03-2007 3:08 PM


Dragoness writes:
4. Who is God?
I gave her a short answer about many people believed that God is the creater of all life, she asked if I believed that. I explained that I beleive in evolution and daddy believes in creation/God.
This is my short answer for now, and I guess it is similar to what RAZD said.
I do not think it is necessary to make God and evolution antagonists. Evolution happens in 'real life' and speaking from experience, it is perhaps not better to make a child feel it is something akin to polytheism or the 'belief system' of another people.
The take it or leave it approach caused me to delay any serious education in the matter.
Conversely, finding a spouse and 'having' a parent are different forms of love. I am scared to death of indoctrinating my kids, but I feel that a secure foundation is vital to children.

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anastasia
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From: Bucks County, PA
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Message 22 of 62 (414424)
08-04-2007 2:48 AM
Reply to: Message 21 by NosyNed
08-03-2007 9:31 PM


Re: Teaching them to think
Nosy, I never thought I would see the day, but I do think I agree with teaching sexuality AS IT IS, when the child is curious.
Saves from the oddity of my situation, being the eldest of 5, and having the ability to actually comprehend the books my sister gleaned from the library. As any young girl might be, she was obsessed with parenting/play, and concocted this notion from her own 'studies' that sperm could mingle with urine in the toilet, or that my younger brother could also use the toilet to make a baby. Good Lord, I could not watch my kids do that.

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anastasia
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Message 62 of 62 (417653)
08-23-2007 4:47 PM
Reply to: Message 47 by nator
08-17-2007 6:51 PM


Re: Update
I am coming to the conclusion that the average adult who has undergone 12 years of schooling either never understood, or did not retain enough of what they learned, to be able to teach someone else.
Therefore all future children should learn only from 'professionals' so that they can also go on to forget or be ignorant of most subjects by the time they are adults.

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