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“This unique resource will help parents looking for useful ideas and information on being a nonreligious family. Recommended for public libraries.”" Library Journal"
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Praised by Newsweek as "a compelling read" and Library Journal as "accessible and down-to-earth," Dale McGowan's Parenting Beyond Belief offered freethinking parents everywhere a compassionate introduction to raising caring, ethical children without religious guidance. Now, Raising Freethinkers offers solutions to the unique challenges secular parents face and provides specific answers to common questions, as well as over 100 activities for both parents and their children. This book covers every important topic nonreligious parents need to know to help their children with their own moral and intellectual development, including advice on religious-extended-family issues, death and life, secular celebrations, wondering and questioning, and more. Complete with reviews of books, DVDs, curricula, educational toys, and online resources relevant to each chapter topic, Raising Freethinkers helps parents raise their children with confidence.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book pretty much does as the title suggests: it is a very clearly laid out practical guide for how to deal with lifes most puzzling issues from a non-religious point of view. Most of the common questions that have "easy" answers in religion (although how meaningful those answers are depends very much on faith) have been addressed in this book very well without resorting to anything more than reason and evidence.
The format of the book is set out in individual chapters which each address a different topic. After a few pages of introduction to each chapter, the author then sets out a good number of questions that are then answered very well. The format lends itself well to "pick up and read the relevant bit only" as well as easy cover-to-cover reading.
There are a number of activities at the end of each chapter, which are designed to get the family thinking and playing with ideas about the big questions. These activities cover age groups from a few years old right up to teens. There are also very good references to further reading and links to websites.
As good a starting point as you'd need, in my opinion.
The format of the book is set out in individual chapters which each address a different topic. After a few pages of introduction to each chapter, the author then sets out a good number of questions that are then answered very well. The format lends itself well to "pick up and read the relevant bit only" as well as easy cover-to-cover reading.
There are a number of activities at the end of each chapter, which are designed to get the family thinking and playing with ideas about the big questions. These activities cover age groups from a few years old right up to teens. There are also very good references to further reading and links to websites.
As good a starting point as you'd need, in my opinion.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The title of the book does exactly what it says. Well laid out, wonderfully written and full of great activities with discussions on the theme and Q & A sections. A wonderful book for those of us that want our children to learn how to think, not what to think. Buy it today, it won't let you down.
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A no nonsense approach to raising kids to question and look for evidence in their daily lives. I wish that I had had this information when I was growing up.
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