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How To Have A Week-Long Darwin Week To Your Children

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 [...]

Parenting Beyond Belief

Posted: Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 @ 6:11 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Books, Children, Parenting, Secular | 6 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 [...]

It’s Coming! Darwin Day Is Coming!

Posted: Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 @ 6:16 pm in Evolution, Family, Holidays, Parenting, Science | 4 Comments »

It’s less than a month away. Are you ready?
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out my article in the Humanist Network News. Normally I only contribute one article a month, but this month I will have a second article in HNN. This week’s article is a general description of [...]

My Secret Has Something To Do With Dale McOwen’s New Book, “Parenting Beyond Belief.”

Posted: Monday, January 1st, 2007 @ 11:46 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Books, Children, Family, Humanism, Parenting | 18 Comments »

There’s some exciting news in and of itself: a book on secular parenting. It has articles by many we enjoy. Richard Dawkins, Julia Sweeney, Penne Jillette.
Oh, and two articles by Agnostic Mom! And there’s my secret. This book, to be released in April, will feature two of my [...]

Developing Empathy in Children for a Moral and Ethical Foundation

Posted: Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 @ 5:41 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Children, Ethics, Morals, Parenting | 4 Comments »

My article is up on the Humanist Network News! Click here to read it.
In fact, the article may relate in some way to a comment/question that Angel posted last week. Angel: If you are still here, the article I linked to may interest you. I do plan to address your specific [...]

Blake’s Harry Potter Birthday Party

Posted: Sunday, December 10th, 2006 @ 5:29 pm in Children, Parenting, Social | 7 Comments »

The fun thing about having a party for a nine-year-old is that the children are old enough for us to do away with the balloons and instead go for more authentic Harry Potter-type decor. Yet they are young enough to delve into their imaginations and and put themselves into the story.
We had a lot [...]

Someone Taught My Kid About God

Posted: Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 @ 6:29 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Children, Family, Parenting, Religion | 9 Comments »

Actually, that was orginally me.
This post is to answer a question from Jennifer:
I know this question was already raised, but I don’t think answered, who teaches your daughter about God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit? (I’m agnostic, just wondering).
I know I have forgotten to answer a lot of questions. If I passed you [...]

Why I Am An “Agnostic Mom”

Posted: Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 @ 1:20 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Children, Family, Parenting | 19 Comments »

It only takes reading a handful of my posts to figure out that my personal beliefs are one hundred percent atheistic. I think this causes confusion for some readers. Among many reasons for calling myself “Agnostic Mom,” one has to do with the way we are raising our children. Our family is [...]

Protecting Your Child From Discrimination?

Posted: Sunday, October 15th, 2006 @ 7:39 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Children, Parenting, Religion, Social | 51 Comments »

I cannot wait to hear everyone’s opinion on this one. I picked up Blake from school and he handed me a flyer for The Good News Club, saying he’d like to join. In case you’re not from a more religious part of the country or world, this is a Christian club. Blake’s [...]

Who’s Afraid Of Ghosts?

Posted: Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 @ 9:53 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Children, Health, Parenting | 18 Comments »

My latest article is up at the Humanist Network News. If you’re not already a regular reader, go check it out.
It’s been a horrendous week. How much more blunt can I get? And to end it, now that the trauma is subsiding, the kids started their fall break so I [...]