Yes, this is what I am getting at. To have an ideological belief that children should not be indoctrinated into ideologies should result in a parent ensuring their own child gets to think about arguments on all sides of that & isn't taught that it's the only position to take. https://twitter.com/SimonTuffen/status/994964261268058113 …
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How would it work? Would I have her repeat after me, 'I will think for myself' every morning?
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But I gave her the options as neutrally as I could in the largest religious and political ideologies. She was Christian first because the school is but hadn't questioned it. When I showed her Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism & secular humanism, she wavered for months.
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She liked Hinduism best because of the notion of Karma and reincarnation which appealed to her sense of fairness and adventure but she decided she could not believe in it. Judaism was the one which has held her interest enough for her to study it on her own but Passover upset her
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I told her she was free to believe what she wanted, although I also taught her about critical thinking. I did not push her to tell me what she had settled on but when she filled in the info form for secondary school, she wrote 'atheist.'
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Politically, she tells me she is LibDem but I suspect this might be because I am. She's further left than me & also highly strategic and practical. I have a feeling that a mature & more knowledgeable version of her 13-year-old self would vote Labour right now.
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Well she's gotta be indoctrinated into some ideology... Better by you than by 4chan or Tumblr...
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