Proud of my kid today...

We've always encouraged our nine-year-old to find her own path with religion. We've told her what we think and why, but have said to her that she should make her own mind up about whether she thinks God is real and whether she wants to believe the Bible stories.

We've tried to equip her with skepticism and critical thinking skills, in the hopes that they would provide her with a decent degree of inoculation.

Well, last night, she asked us if we could get her excluded from religious assemblies in school and church-oriented events at Brownies as she finds them "pointless and creepily unsettling".

Got there by herself! Well done, little'un. ?

Teens and twenties, and all the wild thinking that comes with them may prove to be a different story, but for now we're happy that she's safe from the Catch'em Young onslaught.