| | | I wonder whether the parents were discussing the subject of gender identity around their kids?
We tried to avoid and even these days are being told by our sons, don't swear around the kids, no foul language, please! Same idea, right?
When we had young children we intentionally decided not to impose organized religion on them. We weren't opposed to religion, generally, but wanted to have our kids make their own choices. When my son was three, he laid in the kitchen floor saying, "God, just say something to me. One thing. Just say one thing so I know you are there." We laughed about it at the time, but it never occurred to us then that he did not get that from us. Some intuition co-mingled with hearsay, I would imagine.
My wife is Japanese and a Buddhist, I am Swedish and a protestant Christ. Both of us while not really practising, both of us have a certain respect for and keep a low profile vs. our 'religions' and what they teach us. Tacitly we agreed to impose no religious beliefs on our kids and thus not having them baptized leaving that to be decided by themselves later in life.
In Bavaria we had the choice to make for them in school: Either catholic, evangelic religion classes - or what they called 'ethics'. The latter being kind of suspicious to me, having some teacher showing the kids his preferred way of 'ethics'... we preferred to let them have a dose of Christianity, first 2 years catholic and then another few years evangelic.
They both decided to get baptized and confirmed at age 15.
So far we all seem to be content with that.
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