Reading Time: 4 minutes (I love a good analogy and despise a bad one. This post is about two unforgettably eye-opening analogies, neither of which includes babies or bathwater, and both of which can help kids grasp an otherwise ungraspable thing: how recent is our arrival in the universe. My next post will look at the unfortunate seductive power […]
Parenting & Family
Exploring the world of family and parenting from a secular, nonreligious perspective.
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Wondering and questioning, Part II
Reading Time: 4 minutes Meet my boy, Connor. Connor is nearly twelve, wickedly smart and funny, endlessly creative and thoughtful and kind. I’ve had more outright conversational joy from Connor in the nine years since he started talking than from most of the rest of our species. Combined. He wants to be an engineer. Sometimes he shares with me […]
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Resisting the eraser, Part II
Reading Time: 4 minutes There are two pieces in Parenting Beyond Belief — an essay by Annie Laurie Gaylor and a silly song lyric of my own — that are devoted to the introduction of great figures who were religious doubters of one stripe or another. I included these because it’s important for kids to know that not everyone […]
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Parenting “as if”
Reading Time: 4 minutes What’ll it be tonight? It’s been an impressive 24 hours. Maybe I should tell y’all about the book climbing into the top 0.1% on Amazon — pretty good for a book without an audience — or the quintupling of traffic to the website. Or maybe I should blog about the secular Tin Foil Hatter who […]