I agree with everything you wrote but I do have a question. Do you also teach your children that it is okay to believe? I don’t mean that it is okay for other people to believe, but for your children to believe as well. I think it is very important for the child to have their own choice about religion as I am sure you do as well. I just hope that while you and I both grew up with parents that were so strict about religion that anything else was unacceptable, that you are not doing the same thing in this aspect. If you press on them hard enough how you feel about religion they will feel like they too should be the same way. I think I might encourage them to seek it out for themselves when they get older. I just had to make that comment. Thanks! You are great to read.

–Ann