Athiest Parenting tips?

You could start by learning how to spell atheist (I mean, sheesh, you’re giving us a bad name!)

EDIT:
Morphine! Ooh, can I have some?

Seriously though, I think if you raise your child to be a good, law abiding citizen, and follow the golden rule, they’re going to turn out fine. Focus on teaching them how to be kind, patient, understanding, courageous, disciplined and inquisitive. Here’s a little secret… people basically decide for themselves what is moral and ethical in spite of the religion they’re brought up in. This is a consequence of how they are treated by those around them, not what book or god they are exposed to. Just look at all the devout people who do bad things, and the atheists who do good things.

I’d say educate your kid(s) on the basics of a few religions, and not force anything on him/her.

Best site there is… It explains everything from god to santa to the easter bunny.

Just be a good parent and let them live

Why do you need ATHEIST parenting tips?
Why not just teach your kids to live by standard morals that don’t have any specific religion. Why not let your child choose for him or herself instead of making them follow your beliefs or lack theirof? Why not let your kids be KIDS and believe in Santa?

There probably won’t be any websites for atheist parents. I can’t think of any reason why anybody would build such a website anyway.

Parenting is parenting, no matter what your beliefs are. Parenting is not about the parent, it’s about the child. Hence, there is no such thing as atheist parenting, or Christian parenting, or Pagan parenting. It’s just parenting.

All kids need love, and need to be raised without worries.

Start by having some serious conversations with the fiance and future father because when your beliefs conflict like this you need to draw lines before there’s a kid there watching Mama and Daddy fighting.

thanks for the laugh

Is he your fiance or your finance? Is that what shrinks call a Freudian slip?

Don’t know any sites. But I’d recommend teaching them about human nature…Locke’s theories and such. Introduce them to the Enlightenment literature.

In response to your last quote…

James 2:20, ” faith without works is dead”.

You clearly have the wrong idea about religion. I’m not insulting you, I used to be an atheist myself. However that changed, and now I am a total Christian. The Jehovah’s Witnesses, from what I understand, are a ‘branch’ of Christianity based on the misintrepretation of the Bible, much like the Church of Latter-Day Saints (Mormonism). In fact, the name ‘Jehovah’ is now known to be a mistranslation of the Hebrew YHWH, or in english, Yahweh, the name of the God of Israel. Friend, I urge you to ask your fiancee about his faith and try to learn from it. I hope for you and your future child to get to know Christ, and recieve the free gift of eternal life.

In my opinion, teaching your children about all religion and the absence thereof, gives them an extremely ballanced idea of religion. The worst thing you can do is teach your child that religion is bad, or stupid, because it works for so many billions of people around the globe.

Really though, if religion, or lack or hate thereof, is your only identy, then your children are more likely to adopt those same principles.

Again, in my opinion, it is best to show them WHY people believe in the principles of Taoism or Bhuddism or Hinduism or Judaism or christianity than why they should reject it. Of course, children always do the opposite of what you tell them to do, it is better to nurture their inquisitive minds than force them to shut it, lest you become like another fundamentalist, albeit an atheist one!

There really isn’t any atheistic parenting tips. As an atheist myself, (and currently pregnant with my first child), I have done ALOT of thinking about how I want to raise her. My boyfriend, who is also atheist, and myself, discussed certain topics such as, religion, santa, birth control, etc.
With the santa thing, I was against it at first because I felt that lying to my child would be the wrong way to start a mother-daughter relationship. But then I got to talking with my own mom and she asked me, “You believed in santa when you were a kid. Do you even remember how you felt when you found out he wasn’t real?” and I responded with a no. I realized that the whole santa thing is just all in good fun, and it will not advertently affect her either way when she grows up. When it comes to religion, my boyfriend and I decided to let her do her own thing. We will not push our beliefs onto her, but if she ever wants to hear our beliefs, we won’t be afraid to sit her down (when she’s old enough to understand) and tell her what we believe and why we believe it. I plan on telling her that she shouldn’t believe everything she hears from friends, aquaintences, or tv…..and that the smartest thing to do is to do the research on her own. Read science books, read the bible, the koran, the torah, etc. I plan on teaching her that knowlege is power. Period.

Allow your children to learn about different religions. Answer their questions honestly and in ways that they can understand.

We did not sit down and announce to our children that we are atheists. We do try to live a spiritual life and believe (or want to believe) that there is a connected-ness among all life and the earth and the universe. We believe that patience, humility, charity, and kindness are virtues. We are thankful for the good fortune of our birth, we recognize we are very lucky to have been born when and where we were. Life would be much different if we did not know where our next meal would come from or if our children could not go to college or if we lived in a war zone.

Teach by example, discuss things that matter with your children. Admit that you do not have all the answers (and reinforce that no one does, particularly those who claim to have all the answers).

dont worry about the spell checker its his reason for living, as for the kids I like to think that if a child asks a question then they must understand the matter on some level, find out what it is they actually want to know and explain to them on the same level

Children raised by atheists, but according to Biblical principles, usually turn out to be good citizens.