Thursday, 22 November 2018

Mom telling child rude things about religion, what do I do?


So...my daughter (16 months) is just very early starting the language thing aaand mom started saying pretty bad things about just about all religions to her. It started about a week ago.I spoke to her and she said while I am Christian she is presenting "an alternative view"....except she isn't Atheist either. She also said that she wants to "protect" her from religion.All of that aside, some of the things she says is just downright horrible. Here are some examples.We drove by a Catholic church and she made the comment "(daughter) this is a CATHOLIC church, it's where the rapist go."They were playing in the living room and she said " we don't believe in Islam do we? That's something for terrorists"We were at the store one day with DD in the cart and she said " Mama's got to pay attention to the cashier honey, we don't want to get Jewed into paying more"It's gotten bad enough that I feel embarrassed to be out in public with her now. She makes these broad generalizations characterizing an entire religion as rapists, murderers, brainwashed idiots, or downright stupid.I know that she is not going to fully understand language for a little while yet, but when she does children tend to think and very black and white terms. They're not going to pick up on the intricacies of what happened with the Catholic priests. Just like all how not all football coaches are like Sandusku and not everyone from the East wants to blow up buildings.If I don't nip this in the butt there is a real risk here but every time I attempt to bring it up she always says she's trying to protect her from "outside influences". It's starting to sound a bit crazy to me but I don't know what to do. The talk seems to have started because of the religious season, and the fact that my family is religious. She is definitely not, but like I said she is not atheist either. I guess she's just... Nothing.She can present a non-religious viewpoint, and I am fine with that, but I don't know how to stop this crazy talk. I'm afraid that one day she's going to say the wrong thing out in public and it's not going to go well. And I would be horrified if my daughter starts repeating this stuff via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2BqUyQx

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