Hearth & Horn

I definitely think about my son (and other children we may have) and whether or not he should be “raised pagan.” The best I’ve come up with is that I will raise him around paganism, because as finch says, it’s practical when you have a child that you take them with you to events (not that I go to events...). But it’s his choice whether or not to participate. There won’t be pressure.

That said, we do want to raise him to have a positive relationship with nature, whether or not he wants to get involved in the metaphysical aspects—and a lot of that is just leading by example. His father is not into the metaphysical aspects, so he can see both sides I suppose.

As for community building and such—a lot of pagans I know come from other organized religions in which they had a bad relationship, and that’s not necessarily looking for order, organization, and or a set of rules when they embrace paganism— even though it’s nice to find someone with the same general worldview to chat with.