Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion – Dale McGowan View on Amazon

Given the important part that religion plays in the way believers raise their children, it can be quite challenging for parents who are secularists, atheists or nonbelievers and wish to have the same experiences as their religious counterparts. Religion offers people a structure as well as a community, both of which are seemingly important in a child’s life. So how do nonbelievers ensure they bring up happy and healthy children? Neither is that easy nor is that impossible. There is some material that irreligious parents can refer to when they feel clueless about how to raise their children and Dale McGowan’s Parenting Beyond Belief is one such material.

In his book, McGowan celebrates the freedom that comes along with raising children without any kind of formal indoctrination, as he tells parents the most effective ways of bringing up freethinking children.

With information from doctors, educators, philosophers, psychologists as well as everyday parents, Parenting Beyond Belief informs readers about several sensitive topics that are necessary for discussion while bringing up children. 

With as many as seven million irreligious parents in the United States trying to bring up children in nonreligious households, McGowan thought somebody had to offer a helping hand to those that got stuck at some point. Thus he wrote this rather informative and helpful book for nonreligious parents. In Parenting Beyond Belief, you will come across contributions from Dan Barker, Penn Jillette, Julia Sweeney, Richard Dawkins among many other outspoken freethinkers. So get yourself a copy of this book and learn how it is no more difficult bringing up a freethinking child as it is not bringing up any other.