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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This may be OT, but how do you teach your child WHAT a religion is in the first place? It seems awfully abstract for children who take everything literally. Like if they learn a creation story, isn't that going to conflict with scientific explanation later? What do you tell them, there are just two stories and some people believe one . . . ?[/quote]

[b]I think you have to get your head around your own idea of religion first[/b]. We teach (and were taught by our own parents) that there are many stories of different faiths (and even within a single faith, variations on a story) to explain the world, and different people believe different things to different degrees. You can believe in a story down to the specific details, or believe in a story [b]conceptually but not literally.[/b] (This actually prompted a great conversation with my then-5yo about the difference between a story that you know is not true and a lie.)

Obviously, though, this doesn't work with a more rigid faith.[/quote]

1) I'm not sure what that has to do with it. You can be really clear in your head about a lot of things and not really think it's developmentally appropriate to introduce to a child that young.
2) RE: conceptually and not literally, how exactly to you explain this idea to a preschooler? Not being skeptical, just want to know how you break it down.[/quote]

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