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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone worry that their young grandkids are not baptized and taught in the church?  Do you read bible stories to them? Baptize?[/quote]

Don't have grandkids yet and we weren't strict churchgoers over the years but having been raised a Catholic, I still feel very strongly about baptism so I would suggest to my child that they consider baptism by a Christian minister. Heck [b]I think you can actually get them to do it at the hospital in a few minutes and it doesn't need to be whole ceremony. [/b]But if they refused, then I wouldn't try and get it done myself or badger them about it. Because in the end, logically I can understand that God would not deny a baby heaven bc they were not baptized. and yes I realize this contradicts :-)  and I am still entitle to my own belief

For bible stories, maybe it might be ok to read the Christmas and Easter story and just say that there are some people who practice the Christian religion and celebrate the holiday in a different way and this is the story about it. Nothing wrong with letting kids know how others celebrate various holidays. I wouldn't suggest it is a better or right way or that their family needed to start doing it. But before reading any such stories, I would check with my child to make sure they were ok with this approach and if not, then I wouldn't do it at all.

As long as my grandchild was being raised to be a good, kind, moral person it wouldn't matter to me if they attended church regularly or not.

Attending church services is not a competition. There are no winners or losers. Attending or not attending doesn't make someone any more or less Christian. It is their actions in their day to day lives that count.

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Some rando baptizing your baby in the hospital is not going to be recognized by the Catholic church.[/quote]

Actually yes, you can have a priest perform this if you are Catholic.

But please keep in mind other Christian religions celebrate baptism.  [/quote]

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