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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you, PPs. For those who baptized an older child, what explanation did you give? My older is five and will have questions. As again I'm not the religious one, I'm not sure how to answer. Hopefully DH can pitch in on that one.[/quote]

For an older child, I would start going to mass every week with him or her if you are not doing so already and start talking about the church's teachings, what it means to be a part of the church and how a person becomes a part of the church.  Give him or her a foundation for understanding all of this, and point out how DH was baptized when he was younger because his parents wanted him to be a part of the community. Perhaps you can also enroll your 5 year old in CCD/religious ed classes now, before the baptism - although not sure how all of that works because I went to Catholic school and my own kids are too young for all of that yet.

I'm pretty sure there must be child-appropriate books on this subject, too! [/quote]

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