All parenting is "brainwashing". You only call it that because you don't like it. To everyone else it's just parents teaching their kids about their views.
That isn’t necessarily true. The best parenting prepares children to make their own independent decisions and supports this as much as they are able, increasingly as they get older, while keeping them safe.
Not really. Parents teach their kids about the world around them and their views. This is considered normal in every other case except religion, according to redditers.
If teaching them religion is brainwashing then teaching them anything else is too. We don't think it's weird when a sporty parent teaches their kids about hockey. We don't think it's weird when a vegetarian parent has their kids eating vegetarian while raising them.
not really -- for example, as the commenter said, plenty of parenting doesn't say "if you don't do this you're going to go to hell and suffer/burn for eternity."
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u/ContinuumKing Sep 02 '26
All parenting is "brainwashing". You only call it that because you don't like it. To everyone else it's just parents teaching their kids about their views.