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Pastimes : Ask God -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (17299)	6/9/1998 9:45:00 PM
From: Sam Ferguson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

Gee Ann the first thing to enter my mind was to keep them away from church & sunday school until they desired to go out of curiosity. To set up a special place in the home for a sanctum for the whole family and tell them it was a place for learning right and wrong and asking questions. Either with mom or dad or God or all at once. Never answer a question with because I said so. Instead of preaching the thou shalt nots, use a fairy tale to get the point across. Try to eliminate can't from their vocabulary. Emphasize how good they are. Tell them if they think they shouldn't do something to ask for permission from parents or their heavenly parents. Enough fairy tales in their youth builds a pretty good conscious because it shows the results of bad things. 2 years ago I recovered enough fairy tales from the internet (U know where we ignorant people hang out) and printed them out on HP, punched notebook holes in the paper and bound it into a book for each of my great children. Think their mother & dad got as much fun as the kids did. They didn't realize the morals taught that way. Children are taught more by parents example than all the preaching or teaching they get. I would especially warn them about being over protective. A little hurt while they are young is much better than a whole heap of trouble in their teens when they are emotionally inept to handle it very well. Tell them you trust them and your only request is to never do anything that might shame or embarass mommy or daddy. Know this will stir up a hornets nest with many but that's how I feel. I'm probably paranoid bout my experience with the poor image I got from Christianity.