This bracelet was given as a gift to my 6yo daughter yesterday by some very Catholic family members. I have so many questions. Thankfully, my daughter didn’t. I wouldnt have known how to answer them.
My 5 yr old came home from school last week asking about heaven, as at least one of her friends are catholic. It's chilling how little control over religion you have when it comes to younger kids, and it's the age where indoctrination is most effective. It's tough to know what to say...
Obviously not those haha. Good luck though with your little one!
My 5 year old believes that unicorns exist, they are just really good at hiding in the forest. I'm not going to tell them that it's not true.
The best I've been able to come up with is saying some people believe in god, some people don't. Some people believe in ghosts, some people don't. Everyone believes in different things, we can let them believe that without believing it ourselves.
Believing in unicorns make much more sense than believing in girafes, we just live in the weird universe
Of course that’s what I do too.
But I don’t think six year olds need to know what a crucifixion is, nor do I think they should be exposed to torture and murder devices at such a young age.
Sounds like you have a healthy outlook on it. Thumbs up.
Haha! Yeah, it’s been a trip raising kids without religion in a very Catholic family. And they have many friends at school who go to church and my son has already had someone tell him he’s not going to heaven.
It sucks.
We’ve already told our kids about the concept of heaven and souls and how some people believe in those things. We’ve gone through a lot of tough questions with them.
But the kids have thankfully never really registered that Catholics surround themselves with images of the Roman equivalent of the electric chair.
I think I've seen the same iconography in Quake with the flayed humanoids crucified to the walls on some levels.
Is… that a stormtrooper up on that cross? Or was Jesus mando?
He's also got some nice D-Cups.
At least it's not the americanized handsome white Jesus... But yeah I wouldn't give a child a zombie Jesus on a cross bracelet
Completely off topic, but from far away that bracelet kinda looks like Commander Cody from Star Wars
Yeah, just tell the kid it's a Clone Trooper.
I... Fucking can't unsee this.... Fuck.
She quickly discarded the bracelet, thankfully, and I swooped it up and it shall never be seen again.
But we were like… wow. Just… wow.
Weird mandalorian bracelet but ok.
This looks like you could wear it and should "LIGHTNING BOLT" and it would actually work.
I have questions too.
Why are you surprised some very Catholic family members gave your daughter a bracelet?
Did you previously tell those family members to please not give her any religious gifts?
Do you not know what the images represent?
What questions were you afraid your daughter was going to ask?
Our family members know that we’re not Catholic.
No, we’ve never explicitly asked them not to talk about religion or give us religious stuff. It’s usually just kind of “known” that we aren’t into it.
I do know exactly what the images are. I just don’t think they’re executed well, nor are they appropriate for a 6 year old.
Questions like “Why does that person have their boobies out?” And “Why are they red?” And “Why are they posed like that?” And “Who are the lady and the man?”
She doesn’t need answers to those kinds of questions at her age.
I too would hesitate to try to explain House Bolton to a six year old.
I think you're overreacting just a little. It's an admittedly badly designed bracelet. Oh no.
Do you get this worried about Santa Claus too?