Need help from Christian Parents for book?

Harwardia, she never SAID Christians are better parents or that good parents can't be in any religion or non-religion as the case may be. Just that this particular book would focus on questions that particular group would have. Though you do give a good question for her book to address.

When is it right to teach religion, and when is it pushing it, and how to tell what a particular child may need at particular ages. I refuse to think that taking a 5 year old to church on an early morning when they want to stay abed is necessarily pushing it on them. Nor is teaching them to pray every day or reading scriptures together. However, at what age is it better to let them stay at home and just teach by example?

Other questions, how do you handle friends who do not agree with your religion? For instance, when I was growing up I was ostracized by extreme Christians in the neighborhood when I didn't agree with one facet of their religion, and I know my sister cut Christian friends from her son's list of acceptable playmates due to her bias, so this can happen with any and all religion.

How do you handle school contradicting teachings at home? For instance, popular explanations for Christmas traditions over faith based. Or just skipping religious significance entirely. For instance, my daughter was 5 when they talked about John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) in her school, someone who happens to be a personal hero of my husband's since he grew up in Ohio and just studied him as a boy. They presented him as planting apples so pioneers had 'healthy food' and basically a peaceloving hippy when in reality it was probably more financial, he would preach from the Bible and an obscure extinct branch of christianity, and those reasons drew him for peace. It's also more likely he planted apples that could make hard cider more than be eaten at all. Skipping his religion sort of bothered my husband. Imagine my husband's annoyance when she came home a week ago telling us about Martin Luther and the Christmas Tree... but had no idea he was the founder of the Lutheran church (the church her grandma is a pastor in and her family has a history of being in probably back to Martin Luther.) Right now... I've just been doing damage control, explaining how her teacher has it wrong and that's okay, pulling out books to show her, and going from there.

Or how about when family/friends choose the wrong? And yes, there is wrong. We have someone close to us who is in a bigamist relationship, that is a clear wrong for Christian beliefs, and my daughter is old enough to wonder what's going on, and trying to explain how we don't attack someone for their wrong choices, we still love them, but... it's still wrong and there is no excusing that it is a wrong choice.

Christians are not necessarily good parents, and parents don't have to be Christian to be good parents.

My daughter has 2 post graduate degrees, a happy family with a husband and 2 children, and has won awards in her profession.

The children of a friend who home-schooled the kids and was very "Christian" have all moved as far away from the parents as they can get (they're in China now). Two have declared that they are never going to get married and have children, and that they don't believe in God. The other, who has children, won't let his sisters be around them. The more you push religion on kids, the more violently they react.