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Originally Posted by wireframe
I was honest with my 5 year old. I said something along the lines of "Some people think that a magic ghost called god controls everything and everybody. Your mom and I don't think that's true." and I left it open to more conversation when she wants it.
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I’m far from religious but if you framed it that way you made your position very clear while pretending to remain neutral.
Personally I did something similar without the dismissive verbiage. Some people believe this, others don’t, you can decide which you’d like to pursue.
If she wanted to go to church with a friend I said ok go for it and we’d have a quick discussion about it when she got back. As she got older and more curious about my beliefs I’d share them but trying to remain truly neutral was my goal. It’s good for some people and bad for others, you gotta trust your children to make those decisions themselves you can’t do it for them.