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[quote=Anonymous]DD is 6, parents separated.  Met in a religious community, though currently neither of us are active in any community at the moment.  I don't believe what I was practicing before and have been doing self-exploration.  I have an answer to what I believe now.  However, it was a choice we didn't teach DD the hot-button words associated with our religion as so that she didn't repeat them at school and to friends before she was old enough to understand the risks associated with sharing those words.

However, someone was asked to say grace at dinner today, and DD said she knew how to say grace.  That they did it at pre-K (government-funded).  And a couple of times this month, including today, she talked about "baby Jesus," and how today was his birthday.  Excuse me, who the f*** taught my kid about Jesus?  My kid now believes in Jesus because of other people.  I know that grace and Jesus are not things either of us would have taught her.  I don't have a problem with her learning about other religions and eventually deciding to be a different religion, even if Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc.

I decided the first time she talked about baby Jesus that I was going to have to teach her my religion.  Without her father's help.  Just me and her.  I don't want to attend a service with her, because the kids activities are few and far between.  Or on days I don't have her.  Or on the complete other side of the region.  I did attend a service this month, but I didn't have her.  I just have to make a point to plan and be purposeful and use the appropriate language when I'm doing that.  We've been doing a lot of things that are religious, I just haven't been calling them what they are.

I'm just looking for stories about other folks of a minority religion and how they approached these situations.[/quote]

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