Agnostic mums and dads of children at school- I am after some advice!!

[Tinks]

It's a hard one. My kids came home saying the same thing when they first started school. I pretty much told them that that is what some people believe and it's up to them whether they want to believe it or not. My grandmother was very religious and they knew that we didn't believe in all the things she believed in so I guess that made it easier for them to understand.

[meow]

Just reflecting on my own experience I remember being told all that stuff at school and I thought it was true for a while... in much the same way I thought Santa was real too. Once I worked out they were just stories I wasn't too phased and my parents helped support that understanding of "some people believe that, other people don't". By the time I was about 9 I got tired of being told this stuff like it was fact, rather than some people's idea and I asked to pull out religious classes myself. That started a chain of events in my school where a bunch of children stopped doing the class and then eventually our school set up a 'religions of the world' class for us to learn about various religions and I really enjoyed that.

I would just answer those sort of statements with something like "Sure, some people believe that" and don't stress over it too much for now.