School and God!

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Re: School and God!

Normally teachers encourages kids to share their “festivals” more than anything else (specially not beliefs) and I dont see anything wrong in it. Knowing other people’s festivals/preferences creates more flexible environment.

We keep on reminding kids about our beliefs but also encourage them to know about others. We try to talk to them on day to day basis so that we clear out any confusion created in their little minds during any discussion at school. in fact these days we are trying to tone down our son (8 years old) who sometimes bluntly tells others that they are “christians” or “hindus” and he is “muslim” and thats why he can not eat non-halal meat!!

other day we went to a birthday part of my far-far cousin’s daughter. My cousin married a convert and he changed his name to YahYah (from John) but all of his family still calls him John. So in middle of brithday party my son exploded a bomb asking him “are you a muslim? if u are a muslim, why is your name john”

Till 2 years ago my son used to think that only people who can speak urdu (in addition to english) are Muslims

@Niksik

So here in the US, public schools usually prefer that kids keep their religious beliefs to themselves (pretty much), but this is not to say that they do not respect the diversities. My daughter’s teachers have always asked us about our festivals, preferences, what my child can do, cannot participate in, etc…and have always encouraged her to share in class about anything special we do.

However, my question is that is it OK to bring on religious conversations with your pals? For example, you know how we teach our kids that Allah will be happy if you do this and that, and all that good stuff…how do you tell these little children to keep their beliefs to themselves?