Full name: Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief

Authors: Dale McGowan, Molleen Matsumura, Amanda Metskas Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Parenting, Non Fiction, Religion, Atheism, Education, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780814410967 0814410960

Dale McGowan's popular and compassionate guide Parenting Beyond Belief was the first comprehensive book to offer a general philosophy of nonreligious parenting. Raising Freethinkers is a practical sequel, providing specific answers to common questions and more than 100 activities for parents and their children. Raising Freethinkers covers every topic nonreligious parents need to know to help their children with their own moral, intellectual, and emotional development, including sound advice on religious-extended-family issues, death and life, secular celebrations, wondering and questioning, and more. Here parents will discover practical and effective ways to: - Help children achieve religious literacy without indoctrination - Explore life's meaning and purpose - Promote a healthy perspective on sexuality and body image - Encourage ravenous curiosity - Help kids come to terms with death and loss - Find and create community Complete with reviews of books, DVDs, curricula, educational toys, and online resources relevant to each chapter topic, Raising Freethinkers helps nonreligious parents raise their children with confidence. Similar books: Parenting Beyond Belief by Dale McGowan The Idle Parent by Tom Hodgkinson Cleaning House by Kay Wills Wyma Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting by Noel Janis-Norton How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims Boys Should Be Boys by Meg Meeker Hands Free Mama by Rachel Macy Stafford Hold On to Your Kids by Gordon Neufeld Parenting With Love And Logic by Foster Cline Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey Our Babies, Ourselves by Meredith Small Playful Parenting by Lawrence J. Cohen Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline by Becky A. Bailey The Mother Trip by Ariel Gore The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig Montessori by Paula Polk Lillard Heaven on Earth by Sharifa Oppenheimer If the Buddha Had Kids by Charlotte Kasl