My son and his wife are home-schooling 5 of my 6 grandkids because they're attempting to keep their little psyches totally within their direct control and make them into bible-thumping believers like themsleves. So far, they're pretty much successful. But, please forgive me grandfatherly bias, every one of those kids is, in the words of Garrison Keillor re: the children of Lake Woebegon, above average.
In the interest of maintaining a collegial relationship with my son and his wife, i.e. sanction to be with my grandkids from time to time on an unsupervised basis, I don't challenge the beliefs they've been impregnated with so far. But I do make my own beliefs clear to them, only if they ask.
All I can hope for is the opportunity to help them think critically about things when and if they come to the point where they're ready.
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"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."
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