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[quote=Anonymous]I currently work for a VERY religious family. During the interview they let me know that church was very important to them and they wanted to know what church I went to. I told them I was raised catholic but that my husband and I currently don't really go to church. I guess the fact that I was raised catholic was enough for them because they hired me. For the most part the job has been going great and I recently got a raving 3 month performance review. My issue is that since working for them, I am finding myself really questioning what I truly believe and after much thought I would probably say I am Agnostic. Now I know this shouldn't be a big deal, I just don't talk about any kind of religion with the parents and they don't seem to mind that. The problem is, the 5 year old girl I take care of has been asking me a lot of questions about God and I just don't know how to answer them. All she ever wants to listen to in the car is christian radio and she constantly carries around a little bible. She even asked me to come to church with them. What do I say to that? I have been brushing her questions off by telling her to ask her mom and dad. Then, the other day we were doing a dinosaur puzzle and she asked me what happened to the dinosaurs. I told her that scientists don't know for sure but that they think an asteroid hit the earth millions of years ago and that the explosion the asteroid caused made the planet unlivable for the dinosaurs and so they all died. She thought about it for a minute and then she asked if that happened before Adam and Eve. Then she went on to tell me her mom said the dinosaurs were killed by a big flood. I wasn't sure how to reply so I just repeated that we aren't sure what killed them and then changed the subject. Fast forward to today I find out that they are going to home school because they want to be able to control what she is taught. They gave the example that they don't want her learning about evolution because that is not what they believe.

Should I continue working for this family? It has been going very well besides the religion part of it. I just wonder if they would be better off having someone who would be more willing to give their daughter the answers they themselves would give her. I would never try to intentionally tell her something against her parents beliefs but I'm afraid there will be more incidents like the dinosaur puzzle. I am also very strongly against them keeping their daughter out of public schools because they don't want her to learn about the planet's history. Shouldn't every child have the right to learn this and then decide for themselves if they believe it or not?        
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