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Ask Mommy: My 3 Year Old Is Praying, What Do I Do?

Courtney Heard · · 5 min read

Ask Mommy: My 3 Year Old Is Praying, What Do I Do?

Another atheist parent send me a question this week,I’m atheist born into a Catholic family. I was raised Catholic. I have a daughter now, who I am raising without religion. Lately, she’s taken to thanking god for things which she has either learnt from school or from my family who are not staunch catholic but who think she needs to know about god. What do I say to her when she says she wants to thank god? I tried saying I prefer thanking the universe. She insisted she wants to thank god. The ot

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