Comment by dolo724 on November 16, 2008 at 12:45am

For moms only is my DW's Yahoo! group, AtheistMoms. It's been around since 2000 and is fairly active. I don't read it, too much mom stuff for me to deal with.

Comment by dolo724 on November 16, 2008 at 12:47am

oh, btw: atheistmoms, the link.

Comment by Lacy on November 24, 2008 at 5:44pm

Sorry, I'm nowhere near Oregon. I'm stuck down here in Kentucky

Comment by MKM on December 22, 2008 at 2:44am

Hi,One reason that i think should be translations of the current information avairable in our native langauges to help kids

Comment by Heather The Heathen on December 31, 2008 at 11:33am

Hi moms and dads! I just thought i'd pop in and introduce myself. I'm Heather (duh), 28, a mom to a 9 yr old, 7 yr old, and 10 month old. Born and raised in the heart of the bible belt, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, moved to South Carolina (still bible belt, but a little more comfortable) in 2005. Anybody near me? Always nice to find other atheist couples and/or parents to hang with, since in this area they are kinda hard to come by! =)

Comment by GibMan on January 20, 2009 at 10:33am

Hello, I'm glad to have found this group! I'm really interested in how experienced atheist parents teach their children. Live in Sweden I come from Gibraltar (culturally catholic) but my fiancée and daughter are Swedes and born in Sweden. We are an atheist family and proud of it. Luckily Sweden is a very secular country. But my daughter who's 8 sometime asks me about God and Jesus and stuff, I usually answer somewhere along the lines that people believe in fairy tales and think that the fairy tales are for real. Don't know how else to answer really or haven't given it much thought. Any tips or ideas?

Comment by Amy on January 20, 2009 at 9:30pm

Hi all! I'm 28 years old and mom to a beautiful two-year-old named Mackenzie. I live in St. Louis, Missouri and am new to the Nexus and to this group.

I am planning on telling my daughter something similar to what you're saying. That some people believe in stories that mommy and daddy don't believe in. If she asks me why they believe those things I'll be at a loss though because my initial inclination would be to say negative things, but I want to teach her tolerance. Luckily she's only 2 so I have time to figure it out!

Comment by Bill E on January 27, 2009 at 10:46pm

I'm 47 and have two daughters under 3, one in Montessori. I'm particularly interested in avoiding the spreading of superstition such as organized religion to children who are too young to comprehend it fully. But I realize that exposure is inevitable. So I'll be reading a lot of these discussion threads (and I already have close nonreligious friends giving me advice as well).

Comment by Paul O'Brien on March 11, 2009 at 9:36am

Check out and add this web as it has helped Atheist parenting a lot http://home.comcast.net/~pobrien48/Morals%20for%20kids.htm

Also check out this web on the advantages of Atheist Parenting, I hope you add it http://home.comcast.net/~pobrien48/Children.htm

Comment by Jennifer spinney gutierrez on April 15, 2009 at 12:25am

I definitely think that comparative mythology is a great tool for developing skeptical thinking tools in young children. I remember being fascinated as a child by creation and afterlife myths from different cultures, and it didn't take me long to figure out that if those stories were myths then perhaps the bible stories that my parents presented to me as fact were indeed nothing more than fairy tales. As much as I hate the idea of reading those stories to my kids, it may be the best way to arm them against the attempts of some of our Christian friends and family to "save them" from our godless state.

We do our best to put the focus on science. It's easy and fun! Kids have a natural curiosity about science so it's a natural "substitute". For church in our family. Living in Vancouver we have lots of resources available to us; science world, the Vancouver aquarium, Seattle science museum is close by as well.

I have a great book called 100 science experiments to do with kids that I got through usborne books, of all places and I refer to it quite a bit as well. It's spring, so try sprouting beans or seeds, bug collecting, rain meters, etc.

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