I was baptized and raised Catholic by parents who identify as Catholic (one never goes to mass, the other goes and snoozes in the back row every week )

I have never felt comfortable with christianity or the catholic faith since I was very young. About 10 years ago I began to explore buddhism. You'd think I'd gone and joined a cult for the way my parents ridiculed it and carried on. They really had (still don't have) the faintest idea what it's all about. When our children were born they weren't baptized yet they are still assuming they will be going to catholic schools (they aren't).

I don't discuss my spirituality with them anymore because although they are my parents and I love them, and i know they love me - they don't understand it and have no interest in understanding it.

It's my life, these are mine and my husbands children...we will raise them as we see fit. They've had their turn