I asked this a couple of weeks ago in Parenting and thought I would ask here to.
If you find it is important, why?
If you find it is not important, why not?
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January 23rd, 2010 at 11:55 AM
I don’t find it very important to shove damnation into kids.. like if you do this, you go to Hell, if you do that, you go to Hell.
My family I grew up with are baptized Catholic. They don’t go to Church, they don’t talk about God unless brought up and they don’t go around saying “God Bless”. Its just not what they do. However, ceremonies and such are very religious and taken to full extent and all of my aunts and most my cousins went to some sort of religion school for a time. However, they do live their life as if they read from the bible. Peace, love for one another and so on.
Now, the family my husband grew up with.. or at least his mother… is not the religious sort I want influencing my daughter. Its very damnation, very condemning and very preaching. She spends more time preaching than she does practicing. Okay, she thinks she is practicing but I find living with her very miserable and being with my family so much enjoyable. I got the feel of how it should be in my heart, mind and soul.. and her way is not it.
So, its important to live life as if the religion is there…. not shoving versus down the kids throats but to practice what should be preached, nothing was every preached, just lived.
I think my mother in laws way is ridiculous, and in that aspect, no, its not important.
The result? My family is a lot closer, a lot more loving than her’s will ever be.
January 23rd, 2010 at 6:46 PM
I feel it is very important. It gives stability and guidance in a childs life. I was raised in a Mormon family and I have raised my own children in the church. I have never had to worry about the troubles of underage sex, drugs or alcohol. It teaches children to respect themselves and others. Religion is an amazing gift to give a child regardless of what religion that may be. I suggest that if you were going to involve your children in a church that you present a good example and show that you keep the commandments so you can help them with trials or questions about their own faith.
Hope that helps.
January 23rd, 2010 at 8:10 PM
I think it’s more important that the parents have good morals.
Parenting consists of children watching your actions and copying you. You are the primary examples of people in their lives.
You can be religious all day long and go home and drink… that doesn’t sound like good parenting.
More often than not, parents outsource their children’s rearing to the education system, to religion, to caregivers, to the government in general (laws and bans etc.)…
Perhaps they should step up and be a role model.. which isn’t the easy way out.
January 24th, 2010 at 2:12 AM
Religion is not important at all, having good moral character and saying and doing what you would want your kids to do. You can’t preach one thing then go out and do something that is different. If church is important to you then it is important to you, but you don’t force your kids to go when you want to go, but it’s okay to take a weekend off because you have other things to do or just don’t want to. Same as telling your kids they need to share toys and such but never sharing yourself.
Just because you don’t tie all your moral behavior to a religion does not mean you cannot teach your children how to go up respectable. We are non-religious. We do volunteer work, are heavily involved in the boys’ schools, have hobbies we enjoy doing with the kids, we do not smoke or drink, and we donate all unwanted items in the home to a free store. Just because I won’t claim Christianity does not mean our kids are rowdy little devils.
January 24th, 2010 at 6:07 AM
That would depend on how important religion was to the parents. If you are a person who doesn’t believe in any religion that it obviously wouldn’t be very important to you at all. My faith is very important to me and helps guide everything I do (or should anyways) so it will obviously effect my parenting greatly;
January 24th, 2010 at 12:33 PM
I find it important because it’s a part of our everyday life, our values, our history. We’re Christian, so having a relationship with Christ is important to all of us.
I believe it depends on the family. If families hold other things closer to their hearts, then that’s the way of the family. We’re all unique.
January 24th, 2010 at 3:28 PM
I think it’s very important, at least to us. For us it sort of works like a life guide to follow. We take our baby to church mostly every sunday. He’s too little now but we want to show him to respect othres so God can reward you.
In the other hand I know some people whos never been to church even once and have wonderful kids. For us it works because without God we woulnt have a life plan or nothing to follow. It give us hope on down days, it give us something to look forward. i want to pass that to our baby so when he’s down he have someone to look up to.
January 24th, 2010 at 9:41 PM
Depends on the religion and how strict/lenient of a follower you are.
I don’t force my kids to go to church every single Sunday or shove Bible verses down their throats, but I do teach them about God and try to instill Biblical morals and values into their lives. So, I think it’s good thing for them.