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While they are living in your house they have to physically live by your rules. No problem, of course.
But you cant control what is going on in their heads.
They have lives beyond your 4 walls and will make their own decisions regardless. They presumably have friends, watch the news, go to school or college or work, talk to other people. They'll be making their own choices right now, even as they are living with you.
But this is obvious.
Cultivating good habits, building a solid foundation -- this is our duty as parents to our children.
If you successfully prepare a child for life - including learning to understand and discern - then they can determine healthy and productive ideas on their own. That always works better than the heavy-handed forcing external approach.
Last edited by Thoreau424; 05-14-2024 at 09:43 AM..
This is nothing but projection from someone who is so insecure about his religion that he has radically changed camps multiple times and still doesn't have a home.
There is a home for you, as much as you hate it.
"radically changed camps multiple times" -- no. changed once from christian to Buddhist.
"insecure about his religion" -- no, very firmly in the Buddhist camp. It is a part of my daily life.
And here's the difference that a thought-dictator on religion can't understand: I eventually walked away from a religion that was forced on me (hint, hint, hint), and accepted a religion that I found on my own, studied on my own, and learned to accept and appreciate on my own (hint, hint, hint).
While they are living in your house they have to physically live by your rules. No problem, of course.
But you cant control what is going on in their heads.
They have lives beyond your 4 walls and will make their own decisions regardless. They presumably have friends, watch the news, go to school or college or work, talk to other people. They'll be making their own choices right now, even as they are living with you.
Yes, and the way young people do that most successfully is when, as they mature, they are given more and more freedom of thought and action.
Children do not have the maturity to make decisions about things like religion. Teens, maybe so, but guidance is likely still needed.
Children perceive things better than you think. It is not difficult when Christians have stories about a man walking on water, driving demons into pigs, being a son of a god, and being resurrected from death.
"radically changed camps multiple times" -- no. changed once from christian to Buddhist.
"insecure about his religion" -- no, very firmly in the Buddhist camp. It is a part of my daily life.
And here's the difference that a thought-dictator on religion can't understand: I eventually walked away from a religion that was forced on me (hint, hint, hint), and accepted a religion that I found on my own, studied on my own, and learned to accept and appreciate on my own (hint, hint, hint).
Thanks for the clarification. My apologies for misreading you.
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