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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (20419)4/15/1998 9:53:00 AM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Also, what right do I have to try to indoctrinate my child? I am not sure I have any
at all.

Ouch, CGB!!!! As a parent you not only have a right, you have an obligation to teach your child ethics and principles by which they will hopefully lead a happy and productive life. Since for most parents these principles are inextricably woven into their religious beliefs, they are "indoctrinating" only in the sense that they are teaching ethics within the context of a belief system. You have done the same with Briana according to your belief system. All childrearing is indoctrination of some sort; otherwise parents would be no more than a Hotel 6 with a free buffet (though I admit this is what we feel like most of the time now anyway). To question the rights of parents to raise their children at such a fundamental level terrifies me.
For the same reason, I wouldn't tell anyone they are "wrong" to spank a child. Although I may have arrived at a conclusion about the efficacy or damage of corporal punishment by way of my own experiences and education, I do not think I possess some ultimate truth. Someone else may arrive in a different but for him equally valid, place with different experiences. And I would never presume to interfere with their beliefs unless the well-being of a child were threatened in a serious way.
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