Indoctrination Station

The Family Skeptical

We started out talking about our visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - the big feelings it created in us as parents about the hopes and dreams we have for our kids and ourselves. And what does success really mean anyway? Then I included a bit more of our interview with Betsy Deville about her book, Grief for Atheists: A Compassionate Guide with Evidence-Based Strategies to Navigate Your Loss. Pops and Betsy got into a super interesting discussion on video games in times of grief. And we finish out discussing something I’ve wanted to talk about for a long time: indoctrination. Just how worried do we need to be about indoctrinating our kids to be atheists?

And if you’d like to respond to Betsy’s survey from our last episode and be entered to win a prize, go here: https://forms.gle/7rHqGEsGov5ppcxi7

Now to links:

• Betsy Deville (https://www.betsydeville.com/)

• Betsy Deville on Etsy (www.etsy.com/shop/betsydeville)

• Betsy’s Survey (https://forms.gle/7rHqGEsGov5ppcxi7)

• Stardew Valley

• The Article in Free Inquiry by Robert F. Allen: My Children, the Atheists

• Seth Andrews on Instagram - I respond to too many of his questions with overly long answers

The Family Skeptical: We’re a married atheist couple raising two wonderful, strange children. We ask big questions, dissect weird parenting moments, and examine how society ignores or misrepresents families like ours. If you’re any stripe of non-believer who’s involved in raising children, welcome! You are our people.

Our kids are Reader (10) and Go (8), and if you want to find out how we arrived at these peculiar pseudonyms, go back to Episode 1.

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