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Kids Are Better Behaved And Adjusted With Religious Parents
Kids with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children, according to a new study that is the first to look at the effects of religion on young child development.
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Oh boy, I just know this thread is gonna go someplace warm. :sweatdrop: Here's my take though. Regardless of your personal beliefs, any philosophies that encourage good conduct in a child would surely have a positive impact on the child.
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My experience in dealing with so many families as a teacher tells me that the families who have focus tend to instill that focus in their children. If the focus is faith or family time or educational things, it works. Doesn't it just make sense, then, that families who spend time focused on religious growth would grow in truth and trust and Godly principals? On the opposite side of the coin, families with no focus have nothing to pass on. And believe me, there are those who are just floating and reacting to circumstances, waiting to be handed life! This would be a good place to interject that age old addage, you reap what you sow. So, Anime, I agree that any philosophies that encourage good conduct in a child would surely have a positive impact on the child. It's just that religious families channel their energy into that more, and the results show in the studies.:) |
Great posts to the both of you and I agree wholeheartedly!!!:clap: :clap:
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Simply put, while the results are accurate, they are also misleading because of a demographically accurate rather than a balanced survey group consisting of equal members of various religious and non-religious beliefs. |
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Not everything that comes out on the positive side for religion is slanted. Good produces good in our kids!! That will be nice to know when you're in your 80's and you don't give your grandson money for a video game. Perhaps the good things you've planted will surface and you'll survive instead of spending five days on the floor just waiting for life to leave your body. Again, we reap what we sow! Truth doesn't need a survey. :) |
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No, this was 1 man and his colleges at 1 university asking questions of a very specific audience consisting of 90% christian....and that's assuming he actually attempted to get an accurate sample population. Now no one is doubting the results of the survey or the implications. We all know spending quality time with your children is important regardless of the activities in which you partake.....that's not rocket science. I'm merely stating that if you survey a group of 90% christians your results will reflect christians beliefs 100% of the time. To imply anything else is sheer stupidity. Do you understand what I'm saying? In China the majority of the good kids are not christian. In Egypt, the majority of the good kids are not christian. In India, the majority of the good kids are not christians because christanity isn't what makes those people good parents, but being good parents IS what makes their children well behaved. |
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I know there are 2 billion who claim to be christian....like you. but when zealots like you start discriminating against snake handlers, Pentecostals, and Mormons then the numbers start to drop significantly. Simply put, I'm glad dumbass people like you are a minority globally, as well as locally. |
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(to perish) no more trouble makers like you around Morning Star :nono: |
I need the article you are speaking of, BS
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I believe that people who believe in a higher good - have some sort of religious belief - move toward that good. I also believe that religious beliefs make one a better parent. :) |
I guess this study changes my views about the preachers daughter stories. Is there any truth to those stories?
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Or you could click here: Study: Religion Is Good for Kids Quote:
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Very imformative article!!
Thanks Rhertz!! In my short windows of time, I am still learning to navigate this site. I feel a bit silly 'cause I just didn't see it.
However, I did read article and there's great info in it. I also heard more reported on radio news today as well. The study was based on question responses - a bit more than a survey. Participants were not identified ahead of time as particularly religious in any sense. If they had been, result could be seen as scewed. Just as I have stated from my own experience with children, parents, and research of my own, the article says that people of religious backgrounds are more focused on their own beliefs and transfer those to their children. Here's the best quote from the info: Bartkowski thinks religion can be good for kids for three reasons. First, religious networks provide social support to parents, he said, and this can improve their parenting skills. Children who are brought into such networks and hear parental messages reinforced by other adults may also “take more to heart the messages that they get in the home,” he said. Secondly, the types of values and norms that circulate in religious congregations tend to be self-sacrificing and pro-family, Bartkowski told LiveScience. These “could be very, very important in shaping how parents relate to their kids, and then how children develop in response,” he said. Finally, religious organizations imbue parenting with sacred meaning and significance, he said Just says that religious parents care enough to learn about parenting, to say the right things, and to be good people themselves:clap: !! Good article!! Supports just what I have been saying. |
I think the point is that religious people with children are a more uniformly represented group than any others that have well behaved children.
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He's saying exactly what I said. When 90% of your survey group are known to share similar opinions, then obviously the results of your survey will be biased. It's not rocket science, Isaac, it's looking at the poll with objectivity. Something you are incapable of achieving where religion is concerned. |
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BTW, there are no "gray areas" in science, buddy. |
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Oh foolish dirty bird
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you Buzzard Brain :laugh: :laugh: The Buzzard If you put a Buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8 feet and is entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a Buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of 10 to 12 feet. Without space to run, as is its habit, it will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top. Blind as a brain-fart :laugh: |
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BTW, the buzzard takes a 10-12 foot run because it's needs to stupid, not because it's a habit. Just like the Albatross, the Pelican, and all other large birds who rely primarily on their ability to soar on thermal updrafts because they lack the strength for sustained flight. You better stick to telling lies about religion, buddy, because no one besides you thinks your smarter than me. |
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As if anyone expected you to provide an intelligent response.
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One cannot see gravity, we merely see the effects. One cannot see the air in the sky, but it passes over and under an airplane wing, allowing it to fly. One cannot see, smell, taste, feel the oxygen and nitrogen in the air, yet we breathe it. One cannot see, smell, etc. Carbon Monoxide, yet it can still kill you. (The smell is actually added to the carbon monoxide so people have a warning if there is a leak.) If you felt oxygen blown against your skin, could you tell it apart from nitrogen? We have faith that all these are true. Some can be proven to exist by using the senses, but only with recent advances in technology, while others we can only see the effects. God is the same way, we cannot see him, but we see effects that can only originate from Him. |
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Another sign of a Creator is everything that exists. (see discussion of evolution for the "unmoved mover" explanation) Some higher being had to create it. That's wonderful if we can explain how things work, but humans didn't design or create the sciences or nature. We're constantly discovering things that were in existence long before we knew anything about it. Every day, we experience the effects of God and His love through the love we receive from other people. Who created the desire to love and be loved? Why do we have these longings? Why are we sad, happy, etc.? Who created those emotions? God did. We did not. Most people can hardly even control them. You see the effects of God through the love shown by other people. You also see the effects of the devil through the lack of love shown by other people. |
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Not only do you lack the proof to support your claim, you fail to see how this attitude is detrimental to the learning process. Unless you care to offer proof more substantial than the hearsay of your Bible...... Quote:
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