Archive for the 'Parenting' Category
Posted: Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 @ 1:42 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Blog, Children, Parenting, Talk Radio | 6 Comments »
Kristen Chase of Motherhood Uncensored will be interviewing Dale and I regarding the book, Parenting Beyond Belief, tonight. Follow the link to the interview site.
Our interview starts at 9:30 EST, but the actual show starts at 9pm with an interview of Julie from Mothergoosemouse. Julie is an atheist and some [...]
Posted: Friday, April 20th, 2007 @ 7:04 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Books, Children, Parenting, Secular | 5 Comments »
Some days my seven-year-old daughter believes there is a god. Hers is a god of lost pencils and favorite foods. On other days, when said god doesn’t come through to grant a wish, she announces, “I guess I don’t believe in god anymore.”
To read more, follow the link to this week’s article in the Humanist [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 @ 11:30 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Books, Children, Family, Parenting, Secular | 19 Comments »
The author, Dale McGowan, sent this update to those us who contributed articles to Parenting Beyond Belief:
Several parenting magazines are declining to review the book for fear of offending religious subscribers, and a few retailers are declining to stock the book, claiming there is no market for it. It is essential that we demonstrate [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 1st, 2007 @ 5:51 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Books, Family, Parenting, Secular | 12 Comments »
DALE MCGOWAN is a writer, editor, and critical thinking educator in Minneapolis. His satirical novel Calling Bernadette’s Bluff has been called “an undoubted triumph of satire” and “wicked funny.” He recently completed Northing at Midlife, a humorous narrative of a midlife crisis encountered on the trails of Britain. McGowan is editor of Rumors of Peace, [...]
Posted: Monday, February 26th, 2007 @ 9:18 am in Books, Parenting | 5 Comments »
Do you recognize the name yet? Dale is the author of the Parenting Beyond Belief, the book that contains a couple of my articles.
I am getting ready to interview him and I thought I’d see if any of you have questions you want me to ask him. If you do you’ll [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 @ 3:21 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Children, Death, Parenting | 6 Comments »
For most of us, death is the most difficult subject of all for non-believing parents. I got this request from a new reader:
Hi Noell
I happened upon your website as I was searching for input on how to respond to as question my children seem to be very close to asking….What happens to people when [...]
Posted: Sunday, February 18th, 2007 @ 8:49 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Parenting, Secular | 5 Comments »
Author Dale McGowen opened up a Parenting Beyond Belief forum. I spent some time this morning looking around, posting replies. Go check it out!
I have some stories to tell plus an article to write for next week’s issue of HNN. You’ll be hearing from me soon.
Posted: Monday, February 12th, 2007 @ 9:29 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Books, Children, Education, Evolution, Family, Holidays, Humanism, Parenting | 9 Comments »
I’ve been looking forward to this week for a long time.
Today I am going to add an additional activity to what we did last year. I’m still working it out in my brain but I think I am going to explore color with the kids as a metaphor for how all of life is [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 25th, 2007 @ 8:08 am in Evolution, Family, Holidays, Humanism, Parenting | 4 Comments »
This article released yesterday on the Humanist Network News. If you are looking to celebrate Charles Darwin’s world-changing theories with your children, you can see how my family has done it by clicking here.
I have some ideas of activities I hope to add this year. I’ll be sure to post them to the [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 @ 6:11 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Books, Children, Parenting, Secular | 5 Comments »
The book (the one I contributed to) now has a website. I am so excited to get my hands on this thing. Having just read exerpts of some of the other articles, I realized it’ll be even more amazing than I expected. There is some good stuff in there! Please go [...]