Ises Empress,
Iwombman know many can relate to the indoctrination in those manners.
Relating to the way the church many times influences a child's mental outlook for life, specifically about the story that Jesus lived about 2014 years ago:
One issue Iwombman have been pondering lately is how to teach children about Istory, about the way years are counted, etc. I have seen that calling the year "2014" can make a young child very confused, because children usually do not learn about the number line or "negative numbers" until middle school. This means that they cannot comprehend counting backwards in BCE times. Even if I&I were to say "year 7500 after the founding of KMT," for example, this would still create confusion in the mind of the child who has not learned to count backwards on the number line, and therefore would find it hard to imagine a time before the founding of KMT, especially imagining that it may be a very, very long time.
Still, without giving numbers to years, how could people make sense of the movement of "time" for scheduling or anniversary remembrances? It would also be hard to approximate the number of years the earth has existed, and explain it in these terms to children - because the "age of the earth" seems to fluctuate as scientists discover new fossils and such...
Maybe the little ones should be taught about cosmological processions, and count the dates and years this way?
Iwombman debate the most effective and accurate way to teach children about the large scale aspects of "time" while opening their exploratory imaginations, little scientist brains, to discover what may have been going on for all those millions of years. What ideas does the Istren have on these topics?
Love and bless-sings I.
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