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Originally Posted by hildea
They didn't? We have definitively tried to instill our most important beliefs and values in our children, such as "Yes, I can see that the people in that other boat is jumping the queue and will get to the quay with the ice cream shop before us. We don't jump the queue, because that is wrong" and "When I'm telling the story, there will be girl pirates. I'm a girl, and I like pirates" and "A god is a kind of nice ghost who helps people. Noone knows if they exist, I don't believe they do, but many people do believe in them. You don't have to decide now what you believe, you can do that whenever you want, and change your mind whenever you want".
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I don't mean generic values, I mean a belief system. Of course my parents taught us general moral values, what is good or bad, how one should behave with others and so on. But they didn't try to raise us in a specific belief/value system - in fact, they never talked to us about God/gods/religion at all, in one way or another. I learned such stuff on my own, from books. And for that I'm grateful to my parents. That was the best gift they could give me - not instilling any pre-conceived notions about what one should think or believe.