IMAGE_023 Dale McGowan

Here are some highlights from the seminar. Questions of death and morality are not really harder for nonbeliever parents than they are for religious parents, it's just that freethinkers have a different set of tools to address those questions. How do you talk to children about death? It's not hard, says McGowan. If you engage children with the idea of death since early age, it will seem natural and understandable to them. Our minds are capable of accepting much stranger things as normal, if we are exposed to them every day. Such as....

He also made interesting observations about children's moral development. He seasoned his talk with many funny personal stories. It all made for a memorable seminar. My summary of his speech can be found in my blog post.