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Story time! I was at a parents group at our church a few weeks ago. A priest was leading a discussion on ways to teach the story of Noah’s Ark at home, including showing children how to use a prism to make rainbows. Another mother sighed and said, sounding deeply annoyed, “I bring my kids *here* so they can learn about religion,” clearly implying that there was no way she was teaching her kids faith at home. And this was someone who attends most Sundays and volunteers regularly - a person I could definitely see identifying herself as “very religious” In a survey. Yes, I found this very weird as someone who prays with my kids daily, reads the Bible to them, and talks a lot about God.
That interesting and I’ve heard similar lines from other moms. I gotta say though, as a mom to a very spirited 7 year old boy, it is tough to teach my kid religion at home in a structured school kinda way. We pray together, we discuss things, I try to read the Bible with him but sometimes hearing from another trusted adult helps. My kid is the same way with swimming. My husband was a legendary lifeguard and swim teacher locally and I was a swimmer and coach and yet, neither of us could teach our kid to swim. Turns out he’s a bit of autodidact and taught himself. I just had to take him to the pool and make sure he didn’t drowned. So I get both sides.
I find it striking that so much of the commentary on the parent self evaluation study is on the relatively small gender differences, rather than on the fact that most respondents say that they are very good/excellent parents. I wonder whether there is social desirability bias creeping in here.
Women prefer to use drugs compared to men, and female physicians have access to drugs. So I think they're just more successful at suicide relative to non-physicians.
Story time! I was at a parents group at our church a few weeks ago. A priest was leading a discussion on ways to teach the story of Noah’s Ark at home, including showing children how to use a prism to make rainbows. Another mother sighed and said, sounding deeply annoyed, “I bring my kids *here* so they can learn about religion,” clearly implying that there was no way she was teaching her kids faith at home. And this was someone who attends most Sundays and volunteers regularly - a person I could definitely see identifying herself as “very religious” In a survey. Yes, I found this very weird as someone who prays with my kids daily, reads the Bible to them, and talks a lot about God.
That interesting and I’ve heard similar lines from other moms. I gotta say though, as a mom to a very spirited 7 year old boy, it is tough to teach my kid religion at home in a structured school kinda way. We pray together, we discuss things, I try to read the Bible with him but sometimes hearing from another trusted adult helps. My kid is the same way with swimming. My husband was a legendary lifeguard and swim teacher locally and I was a swimmer and coach and yet, neither of us could teach our kid to swim. Turns out he’s a bit of autodidact and taught himself. I just had to take him to the pool and make sure he didn’t drowned. So I get both sides.
>> Still 2% of surveyed atheists and 4% of agnostics pray or read scripture with their kids!
Sounds like a perfect Lizardman Constant situation. Surely there are 2 in 100 atheists who think it's funny to claim they pray with their kids.
I find it striking that so much of the commentary on the parent self evaluation study is on the relatively small gender differences, rather than on the fact that most respondents say that they are very good/excellent parents. I wonder whether there is social desirability bias creeping in here.
Hey fair point!
Women prefer to use drugs compared to men, and female physicians have access to drugs. So I think they're just more successful at suicide relative to non-physicians.
wait...women prefer to use drugs more than men?!
I think the commenter means that women are more likely to attempt suicide via drug overdose.
ohhh....gotcha. Wow sorry yeah that went over my head.