The girl has decided she wants to be confirmed (confirmated? What do you call it?) and so today we went to the first mass, meant to welcome the children to the confirmation education they have to go through this winter. We were all bored to tears, none more than the boy who finally lay down on the bench to mumble "Can I go home now! Booooored. How
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I make mistakes, like everyone, and who knows what impact those will have, but I like to believe that we're mostly doing it right. She is growing into such a good person, meaning kind and funny and thoughtful and loyal. And damn, so talented, I can't help brag about that. Her drawings are amazing! But what I'm proudest of is how fair and righteous she is. She's always been quick to stand up to those she believes are being unfair and for those being treated unfairly, which I have to admit hasn't always made her life easy. But she honestly can't understand why people are mean or say the stupid things they do. "Can't they see how wrong it is?"
The boy is still too busy being a goofball to contemplate the bigger issues, we'll see how he turns out. :)
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I've complained about it but this is nationwide teaching following the curriculum and nothing to be done about it. It's called religion studies but is really just the study of Christianity with some examples of others thrown in, way down the line. Blame it on state and church still not being separated despite 70% of the population wanting it to be. *sighs*
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If they want to choose a religion later in their life it's their decision. But I never felt like it was my decision to make.
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The group I'd want her to go to instead of the church is the Ethical Humanist Association, the more I read about their program for the kids the more I wish she'd go there. Taken from their site: "The course is taught by a philosophy teacher and the topics covered are ethics, critical thinking, human relations, taking responsibility, emotions, death and grieving, skepticism, life style, violence and bullying, relations between the sexes, human rights, respecting oneself and one’s environment, what gives life meaning, what is happiness, and teenagers in a consumer society. There are 2 rules in this course: 1) It is all right to be different, whether it applies to one’s ideas, looks or behavior and 2) It is important to be honest."
All this instead of the preaching from a 2000 year old book? Yes please!
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We'll look into it. Maybe let her start there and see how it goes, but if it keeps on being so dull and non child friendly, I don't see her being too enthusiastic to continue.
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Nothing like sleeping in on a Sunday morning.
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