I have a request for a discussion topic. From Hifi: I would be interested in hearing here from anyone else as to how they approach the subject of death with their children. How do you do it? If you don’t have children, what is your own view? I would be interested in hearing here from [...]

Perhaps “arbitrary” was the wrong word to use when I wrote last month’s article for the Humanist Network News. Ben is right. Religious leaders did (do) not just throw a dart on the wall to randomly pick rules of conduct. But many of the rules sure seem arbitrary, especially when you see headlines like this [...]

The following article is out of season. It is a new version (about 90% new) of a previous entry I wrote last February. I rewrote it for submission to ClubMom and decided to post it here, since it contains new information. It is a good reminder that there are important things to plan for next [...]

It started out superb. In fact, for as long as Israel was with us, Mother’s Day was perfect. The kids gave me their homemade gifts (and a few recycled toys). I got to read Blake’s numerous descriptions of me in a school project and how I “love life and the religions” and that I “like [...]

I realized I needed to get this post up when I saw that Gregg 100 is already commenting on it. Hifi has also responded back to him, but they’re having to do it in the previous blog entry. If you are not subscribed to the Humanist News Network, this week’s installment hit our emails yesterday. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]