Religon in Child Rearing

Something I was reading in another blog got me thinking about the place of relgion in child-rearing. It is a perfectly natural and understandable feeling that if a person should belong to a relgion, any religion and feel strongly about it whatever it might be they will want to teach it to thier childern and have thier childern come to cheerish it as much as they do, but I am not certain this is in fact the best idea. I belive that a person most take a step back though it might be difficult to do so. I would think that most parents, would want thier childern to grow up with the ability to think for themelves and make up thier own minds and be unique invididuals who do not just follow what other people say, but question things and explore and develop, and yet when a child is given pre-pacakaged relgious ideas from a very young age, that is the very oppisiste of that. I think relgion is a journay each person must be allowed to take upon thier own within thier own mind and soul, ultimately I do not think a person should be forced or brian washed to any beleif. Nor should thier exploration of spiritualty by hampered by any mental baggage.

Childeren should not be really imbued with any religon, for one thing they did not really understand, and for another I do not think it is mentally healty. It is possible for one to teach the vulaues of thier religon without acutally teaching the philosophies and theologies behind it. I was rasied in a household where there was no religon to speak of, not to say my family was athiest, but it just was not something my parents tought to the childern whatever theye beleived in, they allowed thier childern to find thier own spiritual paths. I remeber when I was younger I had this vauge concept of God and some masculine singular being that was suppose to be the creater and ruler of all, becasue one cannot help but to be exposed to such in outside influences, but it never quite felt right to me and I never really grasped this concept or accepeted it as truth for me. I always felt a natural draw to nature and at night would sometimes talk to the moon, or I would address Mother Nature as if it were a living entiity. I remember when I was young I sort of grudingly accpeted God becasue I did not know there was any other options, but it never felt right or true. Then it was not untill I was in highschool when I became aware of Paganisim and found that was what my calling truly was.

When I think of how many people I have met whom were brought up in very strong Christain and Catholic familes, and how many of them after growing up have renouneced those beleifs, were also left with feelings of angst towrd them and feel a negitivity to these religons, and I cannot help but to wonder if this is not in part to do with the fact then when they were too young to really know any better were force fed such ideology.

My sister now is a new mother and she has choosen the Pagan path as myself and she is debating now what she should do about the relgious question, becasue she dosen't really want to brain wash her child into having to accept her own beleifs, but she wants to teach the Pagan vaules of being respetful to nature and enviromentaly responseable and comtrable and caring to animals, as well she knows her child will be exposed to religons that she dosen't agree with.

9:18 AM - 8/17/2006 - post comment

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