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[quote=Anonymous]I also attend a progressive Methodist Church (after being raised and confirmed in a Catholic Church).  I expected my teens to participate in confirmation class in 8th grade but part of that class is a personal exploration as to whether or not the teen wants to be confirmed.  I supported their coming to their own decisions and it does seem more open to deciding "no" than my own 8th grade Catholic confirmation process was.

DS (now 10th grade) did decide to be confirmed and DD (8th grade) seems like she will too.  Of the two, I thought it possible that DD would not as her best friends are all athiests but we've had some good conversations this year about science and faith and why people believe or don't and she seems pretty solid in her faith.  Neither chooses to be active in the church youth group but thry do participate in community service with our church and are expected to go to church most Sundays and have noted when we recently had a stretch of Sundays with conflicts that it felt weird to not go.  I'm glad they seem to have ingrained that rhythm of weekly church attendance.  I know for me, that feeling of being out of sorts when I wasn't at church on Sunday was what led me to seek out a church in my 20s after abandoning Catholicism when I went to college.[/quote]

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