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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would think at least through middle school. After that, I will likely do what my parents did. They gave my sister and me the choice of either going to mass or doing something else each Sunday to learn more about either Catholicism, another religion, or another form of spirituality. If we could articulate a spiritual basis for a service project, that could count too. In the end, I have returned to being a practicing Catholic, but I have participated in activities from a wide range of religions, and have the utmost respect for their believers.[/quote]

My kids are still in preschool, but I really really love this.  Tucking it away for when the time comes.[/quote]

You don't sound like a very serious Catholic -- nothing wrong with that, but this seems like a good way to expose your kids to a religion they might like more.  Would you allow them to look into humanism too? [/quote]

I'm the poster with the preschoolers.  I suspect you wouldn't consider me a "very serious Catholic" but I do take my faith very seriously, and take the raising of my children in that faith seriously too.  I also think that at some point (around the time they receive confirmation) that children need to take ownership of their faith and decide for themselves what they believe and what they don't.  If, when they are teenagers and after a decade of faith formation, my kids decide they really don't want to come to Church on a Sunday morning, I'll have 3 choices.  1.  Make them.  Go with the "as long as you're under my roof you'll do what I say" approach.  To me, that feels like a sure-fire way to drive them from the Church.  2.  Don't make them, and let them sleep in and eat captain crunch.  That feels like letting them off the hook and simply allowing them to be lazy.  After all, if given the option most 16 year olds would rather sleep in than go to Church.  3.  Allow them to do something of their choosing that will help them develop their own faith and their own relationship with God and with other people.  That sounds perfect.

As for "serious Catholics" being exposed to humanism or whatever else... in my Catholic school our entire 10th grade curriculum was World Religions.  I know far more about Judaism, Islam, and Budhism than most of my public school friends.  We also had shorter section other religions.  I know the class included some Native/aboriginal beliefs, but I don't remember if humanism was included or not.  So yeah, I'd allow them to look into humanism too. [/quote]

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