This. This is why kids are on antidepressants at 5 years old.

Not sacrificed but possibly indocrinated with sexist homophobic rubbish or told they were going to hell which is actually the kind of stuff that does cause depression. Just sayin..

Your kid will be presented with all sorts of crazy and dangerous ideas during their lifetime. You can't stop that happening unless you raise them in a soundless bubble. Instead it's up to you to teach them to be open minded enough to consider new ideas, and discerning enough to decide which to accept and which to reject based on evidence.

Your comment defines judgement

So you don't celebrate Easter or Christmas?

Sorry Christians, you don't own easter and Christmas anymore. It's become part of our culture but certainly not linked to religion for an ever growing number of families. In our atheist household we love easter and christmas, so fun!!

^What a stupid thing to say. You are clearly of very, very low intelligence. Christmas and Easter always have and always will be Christian.

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This!

Disagree. Not the parents fault. It's the family the kid stayed with. Not everyone is up to date with their friends if they go to church every Sunday. The family could have just reminded her. It's not difficult.

It sounded like this was the first time she's met the kid's mum... Would you leave your kid for a sleep over at someone's house who you'd only just met?

Lol yeah people really just send their kids off to stay wherever with whoever these days.

Ah no they dont!!

Yes!!!!👏👏👏👏

Doesn't matter *where they take them

But you know that church..

I think it weird you let your kids sleep over at someone’s house who you don’t even know!! Wtf is that, you had a coffee and that was your one chance to “judge” they were decent enough people to look after your child? Hell I wouldn’t be worried about church outings. Just hope they’re decent enough people that aren’t weirdos

Are you responding to this comment, or the OP?

Good point. I wouldn’t mind my child participating in activities, but if I couldn’t find her for some reason I would freak out!

I agree, I think this is the point at hand. Not whether kid went to church, the zoo, the park, it is that as the parents of the kids, you were not informed. I would be pissed at this also. I would not take my children's guests anywhere without a parents permission or even just flicking them a text to see if it's ok.

You get over yourself. Ungrateful for taking her child to church!? I'm sure if she took their child to a satanic church things would be totally different.

Different poster but i take other people's kids to my family bbqs, to my work, drop them off at the local swimming pool or cinema. I don't ask for permission because I'd assume the other parent would tell me if there were certain things they didn't want their kids to do. I'm not planning my weekend around someone else's kid. If they are sleeping over, they do what everyone in my house does. I'm anti church and anti religion but if my kids stayed at a friends house and they went to church I'd be like cool, thanks for having them..
As long as they aren't exposed to drugs, alcohol, sex, etc all G

No preaching at park

Maybe no preaching but still influences you might not like 🤷‍♀️

If you cant guide your child around one church attendance, I’d say it reflects more about your parenting.

as a non Christian, my child has attended a Christian school. It has only helped foster a honest and educational discussion about religion and beliefs. Said child appears to believe in god, I did too at that age, he also know his parents beliefs which sometimes contradict his own. No damage done, at all.

In the West, our traditions, laws and values generally stem from Christianity. What influences concern you?

^ no, I mean that even though there is no preaching at a park, there might still be influences you don’t like at a playground that aren’t relgious. Might as well keep your kid at home if you’re gonna going to get upset by one church attendance.

Park VS Church? Really? It's not even in the same boat. One is a place to play, have fun. That's the park. Church is "teaching" her child about a God, Heaven, hell, Satan, angels, sins etc.. Like really? If I was a religious douche I would never take another kid to church if they had stayed the night. You would say, on Sunday morning my family goes to church. Little Joey is more than welcome to come along, but if you don't wish him to, please pick him up before whatever time or we can drop him off along the way.
Holy shit, how simple was that?! She has every right to be upset with it. Her child, her rules regarding religion. Just because she doesn't go to church it doesn't mean she's g a bad parent, or not teaching her child good values.

I didn’t say she was a bad parent. But one attendance at church is hardly going to corrupt the child. Calm the funk down, Karen.

Woah that’s a leap. your children will definitely meet people who are less than desirable. Your parenting will make the difference as to how such people influence your children

Be a loving, open, reflective parent and you’ll probably be fine. Won’t matter who your child spends time with in terms of influences.

My parents are prison officers. They took my kids to the park and bumped into some newly released inmates who came over for a chat. My kids were introduced to the men and shook hands and were told some questionable stories.

So you can meet weirdos in church or the park.

Agreed. If my child stayed over with a friend from school that was a practicing Christian, I would see church attendance as a given.

Its also usually very obvious who the practicing christians are at any school.

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