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- From: mkkuhner@phylo.genetics.washington.edu (Mary K. Kuhner)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: the next generation...?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 05:36:53 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- I know a couple of children being raised by Wiccan parents; the usual
- strategy seems to be to teach them practical stuff and some basic
- ethics, but not try to push theology at them.
-
- At the Yule Feast retreat there were three pre-teen girls who, while the
- adults were doing something else, painstakingly scraped together a pile
- of hoarfrost and made a "snow witch". It promptly began to snow (a
- rarety near Seattle), much to their delight. At the closing circle
- their elders praised the snow, and then told the girls that they needed
- to properly dispose of what they'd made. Various adults suggested
- scattering the snow witch, throwing it in the fire...the girls divided
- it into three parts and threw them at each other.
-
- The idea is that you're responsible for what you do; something those
- girls will find use for, no matter what faith they practice when they
- grow up. Theology can wait. (Their elders don't agree on it
- anyway....)
-
- Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@genetics.washington.edu
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