Timeline for How do you teach a child religious views?
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| Sep 9, 2016 at 13:32 | comment | added | hkBst | @tomjedrz, almost right: you should replace unquestioning with immediate. | |
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| Jun 14, 2011 at 6:20 | comment | added | Hairy | @Tom - We disagree, that's cool. I think being anal about cleanliness is a bit of an odd thing to teach kids, and you still haven't answered my questions. As for not walking off the sidewalk, well, we teach our kids not to do that, we also teach them danger, we teach them a lot of things. My kids don't wander off the pavement as they kniow it is dangerous, as we have taught them this. Sorry, but simply saying 'you will do as I say' is lazy parenting. We're very disciplined in teaching our kids the way we want to, and we are alert, diligent and responsible. Respect is earned, btw | |
| Jun 14, 2011 at 6:16 | comment | added | tomjedrz | @Hairy .. for some things, absolute, unquestioning compliance is necessary. No stepping off the sidewalk. No wandering away from Dad in the store. Personal hygiene is required. Negotiating/persuading for these kinds of things is the wrong approach. Not being diligent and disciplined in making these things happen is lazy, ineffectual parenting. The trick is deciding what things to force and what to not force. Force personal hygiene. Force common courtesy and treating others with respect. Don't try to force feelings, or likes, or beliefs. | |
| Jun 14, 2011 at 6:08 | comment | added | Hairy | Yes I do Tom. Sometimes compliance isn't the only alternative; I actually think forcing compliance is the lazy option, to be frank. | |
| Jun 14, 2011 at 6:07 | comment | added | Hairy | @tomjedrz no, I wash my hands, as does my wife, we encourage the kids to as well, we help them wash their hands when we're in there with them. However, if they don't, we're not going to punish them; that's just nonsense and bound to give them issues. Do you touch anything in your everyday like Tom? Do you open doors? Do you pick up bottles of condiments in restaurants? Open car doors? What, do you sanitise your hands every time you do? There's being clean, and there is being OCD, Anal about it; I know which I'd want my kdis to be | |
| Jun 14, 2011 at 6:05 | comment | added | tomjedrz | @Hairy .. quips aside .. do you take issue with the concept that sometimes compliance is the only acceptable alternative? | |
| Jun 14, 2011 at 6:02 | comment | added | tomjedrz | @Hairy .. seriously? Washing of hands after visiting the rest room is optional in your family? Remind me not to shake hands if we ever meet. | |
| Jun 14, 2011 at 5:59 | comment | added | Hairy | @tomjedrz nonsense | |
| Jun 14, 2011 at 5:38 | comment | added | tomjedrz | @Hairy Parenting by negotiation and persuasion doesn't work with toddlers. For heavens sake, washing of hands after visiting the rest room is not negotiable. If they don't, take a baby wipe to their hands and punish them. | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 13:28 | comment | added | Hairy | No worries, bit to reiterate, I actually don't think you should force them to. I still struggle to get the kids to wash their hands after a vsit to the loo, especially if they're having fun. The tooth brushing was fine; I always did it for them, and we did it as a family, then slowly entrusted them to do it alone, saying we'd not have to do it if they did it well enough. I have always found giving my kids responsibility works better than anything else. But with the hand washing, well, lets say that#s a work in progress, but it is not something I would worry about. | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 13:25 | comment | added | Torben Gundtofte-Bruun | Sorry, I didn't mean to link it to religion, and I agree with your reply. I was simply responding on I don't believe anyone should force any child to do anything, they don't wish to. I should have included that quote. | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 13:23 | comment | added | Hairy | Teaching a kid to brush their teeth as part of a going to bed routine, is not linking their tooth brushing to praying to god. Nor is washing their hands. Anyone can see, rationally, that there is a huge difference between the two. | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 13:21 | comment | added | Hairy | I don't see the link, unfortnately. I am not forcing them to pray before they brush their teeth. | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 13:19 | comment | added | Torben Gundtofte-Bruun | Would you also not force your child to brush his teeth, or wash his hands after using the bathroom, if he doesn't want to? | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 12:24 | history | edited | Hairy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 27, 2011 at 12:19 | history | answered | Hairy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |