Does your religion or personal beliefs affect the way you parent?

Does your religion or personal beliefs affect the way you parent? If so how and in what ways? What church/religion/personal belief do you belong to?Does your religion or personal beliefs affect the way you parent?
You bet. As an LDS mother, I work hard to instill in my children those things which I value(like service to one's neighbor), and as my children are all grown/gone except my daughter modesty and Young women's values are stressed. I try to lead by example.Does your religion or personal beliefs affect the way you parent?
Religion doesn't at all. I'm agnostic. I don't necessarily think there is a god, and I certainly don't think that the bible is true.





But even though I'm not a believer, I don't push that onto my kids. They go to my father's Baptist church sometimes, and they attend a friend's church's bible study (it's a ';nondenominational'; church), and I also let my friend take them to her Mormon church sometimes.





My goal is to let them be exposed to as many different beliefs as I can, and then let them decide what makes sense or ';clicks'; with them. For me, there are no religions that make any sense, but that doesn't mean my children will feel the same way.





I don't think parents should place their own beliefs (or non-beliefs) onto their children. I think the children should be able to decide what's right for them.





However, despite me being agnostic, my kids are raised with morals and ethics. I don't need a bible to tell me how to be a good person.
I am a Christian. I take my girls to church and try to raise them with morals and family values. We teach our girls the difference between right and wrong and why it's bad to lie. We pray before our meals to thank the Lord for providing for us, and we pray before bed to thank the Lord for giving us another day to love, play, and grow with one another.





We strongly believe in the Bible verse:


Proverbs 22: 6


6 Train a child in the way he should go,


and when he is old he will not turn from it.





We attend a Pentecostal church but I was born and raised in a Mennonite home.
I'm a non-denominational Christian. Not at all perfect by any means. I don't force my religion on anyone, ever, but I do pray for my daughter and my husband, family and friends. We're not really hard core church-goers. We did take her to church a few times as an infant...she stayed in the day care area of the church, and had fun while my husband and I attended the service. I do have some values I'd like my daughter to mind. Well, I do hope she ends up a better person than I am, that I know for certain.


I'm not really sure how or when to tell her about God. I do know I always knew about God because my mom prayed every night with my brother and myself. Then I came to know God personally, not just because my parents raised me that way. I went through many religions, Pentecostal, Harvest, even Mormon. And in the end, I knew none of those were for me. So I will just teach my daughter about love and values through influence, same as my husband. We're not hard on forcing anything...heck, we let her do what she wants for now..(she is almost a year old).


If she wants to believe in God, and know more about God and Jesus, that's cool. If she wants to come to fine her own testimony as an adult, that's cool too. The only way my baby is influenced for now is through prayer.
Yes, I had the baby baptized in the hospital when he was so ill as a newborn. I believe that prayers are the only thing that got him to the world safely. I sing Christian songs to him and hold his hands while I recite the children's bedtime prayer ';Now I lay me down to sleep.'; I read to him stories from a children's Bible. As he gets older, I will try to teach him good values and about Jesus. We are Missouri Synod Lutheran and the first communion (confirmation) is a big deal to us so I will make sure he takes his classes and studies hard to get the Christian education he needs.





One thing I will not do is prohibit him from having friends that aren't Christian. That is something my parents did, and I believe there are people who I could have helped, maybe not ';saved'; them, but at least used good values to be good friends to them.
my daughter will be taught according to my beliefs. i will teach her all that i know and then she will make her choice but first she will know the principles and beliefs. It will affect because she is going to live life the correct way.
Yes...in certain ways.





I'm christian ( catholic ) and my daughter has been baptized already and we attend church often. I am in no ways a saint thou...far from it. But I will install the values I learned growing up in my child.
It sometimes affect the way you raise your child %26amp; are as a parent. Think of it this way, your an example to your child. ---%26gt;Mostly%26lt;--- your child will do what you do. So what you may do or may believe in can affect =]
Loads of people think genital mutilation is cool, due to religious brainwashing. It's so weird, it goes against all parental instincts, yet the religious thing is so strong it takes over. Creepy.
Well in one way yes. I'll probably get a thumbs down for this, but it affected our decision to circumcise our son. We're Jewish and it's in the Torah to do so on the boys eighth day of life.
of course everyones does. We home school our 4 children due partly in how we believe. (Christians). If you don't fill their minds with hope, faith and Confidence and knowledge, the school will fill it with garbage!.
Yes, I don't believe in spanking, and I try to be as gentle as possible. I am a natural pantheist, for the most part.
im a christin





and


it effects me in certin ways





like i believe in LIfe starting AT conception


that my son SHOULD be circumsised


that he should be babtised


that even tho hes young we read books about Jesus and God
I'm Catholic but I don't live by the Bible, go to church or anything. It doesn't affect the way I parent.
I am Baptist. I love being a christian, and I am sure he will as well. How it will affect my parenting, I don't know just yet.
good question...hmm I have no idea. I guess I am not that religious.
Definately. Like you would give your child the same religeon and beliefs....so it does affect them
yes it does big time, its a major issue in my life, no joke.
I'm not religious. I wouldn't say that I don't believe in god, but I wouldn't say that I do either, if that makes sense. My husband is much the same, both of us were raised in Roman Catholic homes.





I believe that we're good people, not in terms of how a church may define good, but good in a human way. We don't lie, cheat, or steal and we're not cruel. We believe in right and wrong and we have our own personal set of family values.





Those are the things I hope to instill in our daughter and any future children we may have. When they're old enough to ask about god and how we came to be, I'll be as honest as I can and I would never stop them from finding their own religious path. I would support them no matter what those beliefs happened to be whether they go back to the pagan roots of all religions or some trendy system like Scientology or anything in between.





As long as my children grow up to be good people, I don't believe it's important for them to follow a church doctrine or to believe in a god or other higher power.