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This is an e-group I have started to connect other Chicago-area parenting
Pagans. I'd really like to meet others to share experiences and to swap
information. Everyone is welcome, no matter what path you walk. If you
are in the vicinity of the city, consider signing up! One of the things
I would like to see result from this is a play group :)
Join Now! http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/ChicagoPaganParents
Even *BIGGER* Update!
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As a mother myself, I thought it was necessary to make mention on raising children in a Pagan household.
Our son is nine years old, which maybe older or younger than your child or children, so please keep this in mind.
I had Ryan when I was a month shy of my eighteenth birthday. At that point, I was still in high school, living with my mother and extremely unprepared. There are, of course, things I would have done differently since "now I know better". I did what my mother told me, which now I realize may not have been exactly the best way to rear a small boy. At the time, I was agnostic for quite a few years, but I had baptized my son Catholic to appease my mother, even though I felt it "wrong" somehow. I hadn't accepted Paganism until Ryan was about four. Since that time, I have been gradually showing him the way my husband and I do things a little bit differently than Grandma. Keep in mind I think our parents did a pretty good job of raising us to the best of their abilities, and Ron (my husband) and I both come from very different family styles. And even though our families don't necessarily condone our beliefs, they don't think we're doing a bad job, either :) (My mom, who has an opinion on everything, even told Ron what a "good dad" he is!)
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