Ok I just have to ask this.
We are friends with a couple that are also pregnant with their first and expecting in November. They are very nice people and we love them to death but they are VERY different from us. We are polar opposites lol.
They do not believe in christianity AT ALL. and that is fine with us just as it is fine with them that we are christian.
However, a curious thing happened the other day. We were at their place looking at their completed nursery and they had a shelf of books. I was looking at the books they had.... I love kids books. and I saw that they had these books titled "Dear God...."
I pointed them out because we have a very similar set. They are kids books and they are very cute. Just little things like "Dear God why did you put the rainbow in the sky" and then it explains in kid terms the story of Noahs Ark. When I pointed them out they said "Yeah my aunt gave those to us but we are going to read them first to see if they are books we want Jordan looking at or not."
Now this struck me as very strange.....
Why would you not allow to look at those books? I mean perhaps if it was like "If you don't believe in God you will go to Hell" lol but they aren't.... they are just kiddie books. But they didn't want her reading any religious content. Why? I mean I know they don't believe but I don't believe in the big bang theory but I wouldn't stop my child from reading about it. Nor would I not allow my child to read about Judism or Muslims or anything else. It never crossed my mind that someone would want to shelter their child from that just because they didn't personally believe. I mean yes I will make sure books are "age appropriate" but I wouldn't filter out content like that just because it was not something I personally believed in. I don't believe in monsters under the bed but if my child wanted to read a book about it I wouldn't tell them they couldn't.
It just seemed wierd to me. Is this normal practice? Am I just too free and willing to let my kid learn about their options?
We are friends with a couple that are also pregnant with their first and expecting in November. They are very nice people and we love them to death but they are VERY different from us. We are polar opposites lol.
They do not believe in christianity AT ALL. and that is fine with us just as it is fine with them that we are christian.
However, a curious thing happened the other day. We were at their place looking at their completed nursery and they had a shelf of books. I was looking at the books they had.... I love kids books. and I saw that they had these books titled "Dear God...."
I pointed them out because we have a very similar set. They are kids books and they are very cute. Just little things like "Dear God why did you put the rainbow in the sky" and then it explains in kid terms the story of Noahs Ark. When I pointed them out they said "Yeah my aunt gave those to us but we are going to read them first to see if they are books we want Jordan looking at or not."
Now this struck me as very strange.....
Why would you not allow to look at those books? I mean perhaps if it was like "If you don't believe in God you will go to Hell" lol but they aren't.... they are just kiddie books. But they didn't want her reading any religious content. Why? I mean I know they don't believe but I don't believe in the big bang theory but I wouldn't stop my child from reading about it. Nor would I not allow my child to read about Judism or Muslims or anything else. It never crossed my mind that someone would want to shelter their child from that just because they didn't personally believe. I mean yes I will make sure books are "age appropriate" but I wouldn't filter out content like that just because it was not something I personally believed in. I don't believe in monsters under the bed but if my child wanted to read a book about it I wouldn't tell them they couldn't.
It just seemed wierd to me. Is this normal practice? Am I just too free and willing to let my kid learn about their options?