One of the most discussed topics in the modern world is children indoctrination into religion. Children aren't developed enough to decide in what to believe or disbelieve. Everyone is born without believing in a religion until it is either forced on them or they are developed enough to decide if one of the religions ''works'' for them or not. Mostly, parents are the most influential part in a child life. They decide what a proper education is to their successor and they impose their ideas to their child.
The world is diverse and people are grown in different cultures practicing various traditions. So, it might be easy for every one of us to judge someone else in a foreign opinion. But we must consider the fact that our opinions are wrong
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Developmental psychologists have provided evidence that children are naturally tuned to believe from figures of authority.A child’s brain is set-up to believe what is told by elders, even if what is told is nonsense. Children usually acquire the religious views of their parents.
But also, children are tended to believe in gods in one way or another. Justin Barret gives some examples why children trust that a divine or powerful being is upon them:
• Children tend to see natural objects as designed or purposeful in ways that go beyond what their parents teach, as Deborah Kelemen has demonstrated. Rivers exist so that we can go fishing on them, and birds are here to look pretty.
• Children know humans are not behind the order so the idea of a creating god (or gods) makes sense to them. Children just need adults to specify which one.
• Experimental evidence, including cross-cultural studies, suggests that three-year-olds attribute super, god-like qualities to lots of different beings. Super-power, super-knowledge and super-perception seem to be default assumptions.
• Children doubt that impersonal processes can create order or purpose. Studies with children show that they expect that someone not something is behind natural order.
Rites of Passage
Religions survival is based on children. If rites of passage would never exist, than nowadays we would believe anything else except god. But the truth is different. Every impactful religion uses its own
Firstly, I’ll touch upon how education at a public university could affect a child’s relationship with god. After middle school or high school, one’s abilities to make assumptions and decisions for themselves start to rise; they learn about evolution and other religions in school, and they start to think for themselves and develop an identity. For a parent who raised a child under a religious household, this could cause
Brandt’s essay, Do Kids Need Religion?” is based on how someone should answer a kid’s question. When Brandt’s daughter was ten years old, her friends died in a house fire. The parents of Brandt’s daughter’s friends took the death well because they were strong and brave about what happened. They were devoted Catholics and talked about how their two little girls were in heaven. But Brandt is not religious in any way and when her daughter asked what happened to her friends, he told her something that he did not believe in because he thought that these deaths had no meaning and could not justify it. Brandt asks families if they think that their children needs religion. He also asks doctors on their point of view about religion and if kids need it. People who have a religion do not have to worry about what kinds of question their child can ask them because they have their own faith and can confidently answer their question. Brandt essay is mainly towards nonbelievers and wants to know
In some occasions, like Tearsa and John’s case, the child sees this as constraint. Tearsa and John were afraid to exhibit any of their doubts to their parents due to their parent’s authoritative ways. This was common to see that highly religious parents’ children would develop a belief that the religion was the most important thing, (Flor & Knapp, 2001). So the fears of rejection from their own parents were higher. When none of their doubts were confirmed or denied, this resulted in a rejection of the religion. This case especially occurs if the child blamed the religion for the perceived negative methods of childcare from their
The person I interviewed is named Zalyn Kieu. On March 4, 2017, I went to her house is located at 1888 Homegate Dr, San Jose, Ca, 95148 to interview her. Zalyn is about eighteen years old. Zalyn was born in the United States. Both her parent are Vietnamese, and they came from Vietnam. Zalyn has dark skin, with long black hair over her shoulder. She has black eyes with long black eyelashes. Zalyn weighs over one hundred pounds and she is about five feet and three inches. Her arms and legs are quite chubby. She has thin lips, white teeth, big ears that poke out slightly. Whenever she smiles, two dimple appears on her cheek. She also has a round face, and big eyes, and a pudgy nose. Her palms are big, but her fingers are not that long.
To begin with, forcing children into accept a religion of any denomination can potentially lead to opposition of faith
Religion plays a part in a person's identity structure. It is the search of what one calls faith in one's self and the worship of either one supreme being or numerous beings. But religion comes in different formalities. There are those who were raised practicing their religion, those who were influenced and converted, and those who were brainwashed. People who practice a certain religion will more likely raise their children under that same religion. Being raised practicing a religion creates the virtues and morals for that person's identity from an early stage. It helps parents create a sense of direction and inflict the core values their children need. Some people have
During this stage, the child can engage in symbolic play, and have developed an imagination. This child may use an object to represent something else, such pretending that a broom is a horse. An important feature a child displays during this stage is egocentrism. This refers to the child’s inability to see a situation from another person’s point of view. To test whether or not children are egocentric, Piaget used the ‘Three Mountain Task’. Piaget concluded that the four-year olds thinking was egocentric, as the seven year olds was not. Children, at this stage, do not understand more complex concepts such as cause and effect, time, and comparison.
Cannabis or marijuana has been used for medical purposes for more than five centuries. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.), marijuana is considered a Schedule I substance. Schedule I drugs have been shown to have a high potential for abuse and are not currently accepted for medical use. However, some states have permitted the use of medical cannabis for chronic medical conditions such as cancer, epilepsy, spinal cord injury/disease, glaucoma, sleep disorders, and HIV. Even though there are not many medical trials supporting the effects of medical marijuana, it appears to have some benefits in conditions mentioned above. Many health care providers believe children and adolescents may also benefit
Being taught and being preached to are completely different things. While one encourages religion the other simply explains the way different religions work. Students should learn about all religions to avoid future discrimination without fully understanding what a religion is. " There are many parents and educators who consider first grade too early to teach about religion in school(Wertheimer)". Many students do not begin to learn about religion until the eighth grade, this can become an issue because by that age many students are reluctant to learning about something that is not familiar to them or may simply not be interested. We live in a country where every time we go to the store we see people of all cultures and religions. It is important for all people to understand different religions to insure each one is respected. There are also other occasions where people may be comfortable with their children being exposed to one religion but not another. For example when a school in Kansas had a presentation sponsored by a United Methodist Church very few parents had an issue with it."If that community had a Muslim group come in and wanted to do that type of presentation, they would have been up in arms(Boston)". In our country Christianity is the most popular religion and many other minority religions, such as Muslim, are extremely
Educators need to understand the impact of religion on the lives of their students. According to Gallup poll data, nearly 95% of teens believe in God and 86% believe that Jesus Christ is either God or the Son of God (Gallup & Lindsay, 1999 as cited in Ream, 2003). These and other similar statistics demonstrate the importance of considering religion when dealing with young people. Ream
• Children tend to see natural objects as designed or purposeful in ways that go beyond what their parents teach. Rivers exist so that we can go fishing on them, and birds are here to look pretty.
As children get older egocentric thinking will begin to dominate in a non-logical and non-reversible way, and this will give a more developed imagination and will improve memory. The child grows into adolescents and the operational stage of cognitive development with the use of symbols and abstract concepts grows and shows more
“Several researchers suggest that religion and spirituality provide children and adolescents a sense of meaning, self-esteem, coherence, and purpose in life” (Bryant-Davis et al., 2012. p. 308). Christians believe that when something bad or good happens, it is the will of God.
Fagron is a Netherlands-based company (although its registered office and listing is in Belgium) focused on pharmaceutical compounding. The company has undergone a significant restructuring over the past few years, divesting a number of medical/dental businesses (with the last one done in March), to reshape itself into a global drug compounding leader. Drug compounding is essentially taking a drug ingredient (e.g. a painkiller) and preparing it in a form different from the usual pill form (e.g. a topical cream). Such compounds are useful if a patient is unable to take the traditional form (e.g. a patient that is addicted to a painkiller would benefit from a topical application, or a patient that can’t open her jaw to swallow a pill would benefit from a drug in solution she could drink through a straw).
Although Native Americans were not considered Christians, they did believe in a supreme creator and taught children their beliefs in being made up of mind, body, and spirit (Dever & Falconer, 2008, p. 3). This has inspired my personal learning philosophy. I believe what a child chooses to have faith in; it will become an important part of their life. This will also provide a solid guideline and foundation as to how the child will live. No matter how young or what faith a child chooses, what they believe will influence everything they learn to do as well as what they choose to