They are only eight, six, and three years old. There remains much to be seen. But it helps to take a periodic look at how moral or immoral, how healthy or unhealthy, how successful or unsuccessful my children are to date, now 4 years without religion in the home. Aiden has added two undesirable words [...]

The following article was written for the Humanist News Network. Meant for publishing this week, it is being postponed until next week because of a fundraising campaign. I wanted to make sure AgnosticMom readers get to read it before the Easter holiday. The last thing I expected when I got married was to face the [...]

An AgnosticMom reader, katie, asked the following question: My boyfriend and I have been talking a lot about marriage, kids and our future together. He’s a wonderfull man and I love him deeply. However, He is a theist and I am agnostic. We have never found it difficult to be together as a couple even [...]

Right now, at this very moment, my kids are watching a movie based on the Skydancer toys. I just heard one character proclaim, after making an observation: “The only scientific explanation for it is, Magic Does Exist! And if it does, then I believe in Magic!” The character’s faith statement then released her into the [...]

A couple of weeks ago I was catching up on the HNN podcasts, listening to cartoonists discuss their take on the controversy behind the Mohammad cartoons. Blake overheard the discussion which prompted this surprising conversation: Blake: In the Muslim Bible, does it say Jesus is God? Me: The “Muslim Bible” is called the Quran and [...]

Lately my two-year-old has struggled to go to sleep at night. He sleeps in his own bed, but I often (rather, almost always) lay down with him for five or ten minutes until he falls asleep. Recently his pleas to have me stay with him have seemed more out of desperation than from a typical [...]

Ever since my post, What’s Missing Is A System, I’ve been brainstorming and collecting ideas on a lesson and activity book for non-religious families. I recruited AgnosticMom reader, Ron, to join me on the project since he is a professional artist. He has great ideas, too. As it turns out, another reader, Gregg100 has been [...]

When we stopped going to church, libraries and bookstores became a favorite destination for our family. We go a lot, and I love that my children consider a visit to a repository of books a desirable adventure. This time an appearance from Strawberry Shortcake called us to a locally owned bookstore we’d never frequented. A [...]

The pace of my week took a drastic turn, as well as my plans for accomplishment, when my almost three-year-old son, Aiden, decided to take notice of the throne in his bathroom. It is a throne on which he has refused to sit for at least six months now. Maybe more. I can’t even remember [...]

Yesterday’s post sparked discussion about a specific situation we will surely find ourselves in (and maybe some of you are currently). The situation is that of their friends pressuring our teenage children to join their religious group. Fran was the first to mention “peer pressure for Jesus”, and then Cassandra, from The Atheist Mama, expressed [...]