Bullied for Unbelief: How To Protect Your Kids
How to protect your kids if the are being bullied for not being religious.
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Why You Need To Talk To Your Kids About Sex Now
Here's why you need to talk to your kiddos about sex sooner rather than later.
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Am I Indoctrinating My Kids With Atheism?
A new video about whether or not you can actually indoctrinate your kids with atheism. What do you think? Let me know in the comments.#parenting
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New Video: OH NO! MY KID BELIEVES IN GOD!!
Yahoo! A new video! I think I might be on a roll now! Let me know in the comments what you want me to do some of my future videos on and enjoy this new one:#parenting #youtube
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Every Atheist Parent Needs: The Kid Should See This @TheKidShouldSee
Itâs very important to me to be able to raise intelligent, literate, critical thinking kids and Iâm always scouring the internet for resources to that end. This past weekend, while looking for some Neil deGrasse Tyson videos my son might like, I came across this web site and I fell in love immediately.Itâs called The Kid Should See This and itâs kind of like Upworthy for kids. Itâs just video after video that engages kids and each post has some kind of educational depth. They cover science, spa
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Guest Post: Thanks, Hitch
This is a guest post from Karen of the blog, My Own Mind. You can hang out with Karen in her Facebook group, Homeschool Atheist Momma. If you would like to be a guest blogger on Godlessmom.com, please click here.For my kids, being an atheist doesnât mean much more than hearing mythologies from around the world, cocking an eye, and saying âOkaaaaaaaayâŚinterestiiiingâŚâ I am proud to have raised them without the brainwashing.Thanks, HitchThe kids and I end up talking about belief systems pretty oft
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Take Off Your Panic Pants: Applying Reason To Parenting Paranoia
Godless Dad has a saying for when you might not be seeing a situation rationally and you tend to freak out a little more than it warrants: take off your panic pants. I dunno, I think because heâs a red-blooded hetero man, it may just mean he wants to see some rational panties, but itâs pretty effective at bringing people back into the land of calm reason. I think there are a lot of parents out there who need to take off their panic pants and pack them away in the attic. Some parents just donât s
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14 Ways To Destroy Religion With Your Kids
*Blank stare*So, I read this.Donât look at me like that. You know I canât help myself.Interestingly, there are some good points in Natashaâs post. Actually, there are some brilliant points. Credit where credit is goddamned due, no holy. However, Natasha ruins the whole thing in her second point.Oh, but let me show you how.Mrs. Crain says,At an age-appropriate level, we discussed how some people just donât want to believe in God because they want to live without any (moral) rules; how some people
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Hell Has Frozen Over, Godless Mom Agrees With A Christian Blogger⌠Sort Of
Parenting be hard, yo.Well, thank you Mommy Obvious.Sorry. Itâs hump day. My mind is elsewhere. Itâs true, though. I thought I knew it was hard before I had a kid, and then I had one. No one prepares you, no one can prepare you for how ludicrously hard it is. By the time your kid is five, you look at Chris Hadfield manipulate the Canadarm to repair a part of the International Space Station, and think, that ainât shit. If you can get my kid to put on his shoes, I might be impressed.Naturally, I r
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Atheist Life Hacks: How To Protect Your Kids From Your Religious In-Laws
Godless Mom is lucky enough to have unbelievers as in-laws, and the only significant other I ever had who had religious parents was keeping them safely tucked away in a crumbling town in Iraq. I have never had to deal with preachy in-laws, but I can tell you that if I had to, Godless Mom wouldnât make it easy on them.GM Disclaimer: Use of these methods could result in any or all of the following: Being disowned, shunning, loss of your significant other, and bad feelings.Hereâs how I would deal w
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Guest Post: How Two Different Parenting Approaches Still Led To Atheism
GM Note: This is a guest post from @WJHamel â if you would like to guest post on godlessmom.com, please contact me.


My bend toward atheism kicked in around the age of 17, if not earlier. It was solidified for me by the age of 18, for certain. I did not become a parent for the first time until the age of 27. It was a conflict for me, for certain, for a number of reasons, not the least of which were theological in nature. Parenthood revealed for me aspects of myself that I thought Iâd al
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Atheist Life Hacks : What To Do When A Buddhist Cops A Feel
It was just barely 1992. My family and I had just spent two days traveling on boats, buses, taxis and planes to get from Koh Samui, Thailand to Bali, Indonesia. At about 2 oâclock in the morning we finally arrived at the regal sounding Rama Palace in Kuta Beach, Bali. It was pitch dark and the night staff was there to greet us and drag our luggage around for us and cram us in a bungalow, like a small house, stuccoed and a roof with turned up corners, in case you didnât know you were in Asia. Bar
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