At what age did you have your child baptised?

[Sixtus]

My wife mis-carried with our son so he was not baptised.

My daughter was born premature, had a list of medical conditions that really scared us. We were not even allowed to see her. She was whisked away to the Intensive Baby Care Unit.

I called for the Priest to come and annoint her. He was a dear old man of great faith. He told me ‘not to worry, no harm would befall the child. She would live to be baptised in the usual way…in Church and that he would conduct her baptism’! He told us only to have faith!

She is now 28-years old and has produced three wonderful grand-children.

 

[jedimasterham]

People should not project their religion on their children… Children should have the chance to choose their own ideas, questions, and beliefs without a Christian one being forced on them. Raise them in a Christian atmosphere, but let them decide for themselves… I know that you want your kids to do what you want, but it’s controlling and will exasperate your kids eventually. People should delineate the general beliefs of all major religions and philosophies before telling their children what is correct and what is wrong…

     I went to a Catholic school for 8 years, and was the only non baptised person out of 300 kids.. I'm quite happy about that; I would not accept something that I did not understand. Now in university, I'm a buddhist practitioner, and live an open, moral life, embracing people of all religions and ideas. 

    I guess I'm tired of dogmatic belief, why should one be baptised? There is no proof that being baptised will save you from a physical hell when you die, and no proof that you'll be send to a heaven. There's no proof of a hell of a heaven in the first place! I could say I'm going to Candyland when I die, and the toothfairy god is the creator.. Anyone can simply believe it, its what is logical that will determine fact and fiction...

 

[Cobbfmly]

I still had a picture of my mom holding me in her arms and had me baptised…woo hoo! I was tiny (about a month old) and red like a little baby mouse.

When did you baptised your child?

My younger brother and I were baptized at about 5 wks old. However, from what my parents have told me, this may not be our “true” baptism as the hospital we were born at was a Catholic hospital at which all babies that were born to Catholic parents were baptized shortly (within 24 hrs) after birth. We do not have any proof that we were baptized in the hospital, so for things that require proof of baptism we have to use the baaptism at the church as our “official” baptism.

 

[Rocky]

When our children were born into our family they became members by birth, and so they received all that our family, nuclear and extended, had to offer. When our children were baptized they became members of Christ’s family through adoption, and so they received all that our adopted family has to offer. My husband and I wanted them to have both families, but I freely admit that their adopted family offers more to them. Even being baptized as infants, however, they still have the choice as adults to make to stay in the family of Christ or not.

Today even in human families children make choices to disengage from parents, siblings and other relatives.

My point is why deny the child the grace received in the Sacrament? The choice to leave or stay is always there.

 

[Sixtus]

edimasterham wrote:

People should not project their religion on their children

In England, any parent who wilfully keeps their child away from School without good reason will be [and is] prosecuted.

It is believed that every child has the right to an education to equip it for life.

How much more so, is it a duty of a parent to educate the child in knowing who its real Father is, why it was created and for what purpose, to prepare it not just for life but for eternal life!

 

[GregoryPalamas]

I was thirty one for the first and thirty five for the second.

CDL

 

[jedimasterham]

In England, any parent who wilfully keeps their child away from School without good reason will be [and is] prosecuted.

It is believed that every child has the right to an education to equip it for life.

How much more so, is it a duty of a parent to educate the child in knowing who its real Father is, why it was created and for what purpose, to prepare it not just for life but for eternal life!

I know you think you are right in your beliefs, but I ask all people never to project them on their children. Most evangelical christiansin the US take their children out of school to be home schooled, and aren’t prosecuted. Where’s the childrens’s right to learn about evolution and history and get a social life from an actual school then. If a parent gets a degree from a university, then I consider it ok. In university, we get so many dumb christians, or born again christians, who’re always trying to convert others, and who aren’t even open to the possibility that they might be wrong, or that another faith or opinion has something to offer… It’s always “I’m right, you’re wrong.”

 

[ltbpoe43]

We have two sons 6 years apart and they were about the same age - approx 2-3 months old when they were baptized at the same church. My oldest (now 19) was baptized and confirmed by the same priest who later became bishop. Great photo op - we brought the baptism picture with us to take the confirmation photo with the bishop. We both remarked about how much thinner and more hair we had when he was a baby - a great laugh.

True story - my Dad was in the Marines and we moved around so much when I was a kid they waited until they were around family to baptize me. I was 2 yrs old and walking and talking and very unruly according to my Godparents. In those days the Godmother held the baby during the christening. My Godmother, Mom’s sister, was only 16 and couldn’t lift my big baby 2 year old bottom, so my Godfather, Dad’s brother, lifted me up to the fountain and he said he had a tough time of it and he was in his early 20’s. It makes a great story. Apparently I asked “Why is that man wearing a dress?” to Father!! Thank God there are no pictures.

 

[6YRSHOME]

My son was 3 months cause that’s when his Godmother was able to be in town. My daughter was two months. They looked so sweet in the little white babtismal gown. (Yes, my son wore a gown, gotta a lot of flack for that one.) I wasn’t babtized until I was 8 or 9 years so I was so excited to have my kids babtized, it was very special for us. They love looking at their photos of that day.

 

[Sixtus]

Originally Posted by Sixtus
In England, any parent who wilfully keeps their child away from School without good reason will be [and is] prosecuted.

It is believed that every child has the right to an education to equip it for life.

How much more so, is it a duty of a parent to educate the child in knowing who its real Father is, why it was created and for what purpose, to prepare it not just for life but for eternal life!

jedimasterham

I know you think you are right in your beliefs, but I ask all people never to project them on their children. Most evangelical christiansin the US take their children out of school to be home schooled, and aren’t prosecuted. Where’s the childrens’s right to learn about evolution and history and get a social life from an actual school then. If a parent gets a degree from a university, then I consider it ok. In university, we get so many dumb christians, or born again christians, who’re always trying to convert others, and who aren’t even open to the possibility that they might be wrong, or that another faith or opinion has something to offer… It’s always "I’m right, you’re wrong

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I know you think you are right in your beliefs,

Why do you question my beliefs? My beliefs have nothing to say, they are about as valid as your beliefs

I know however that my faith is not only right but 100% so because He is the truth and the Holy Spirit has come to consecrate His Church in the truth.Jn 16: 13

I ask all people never to project …] on their children

I ask all people to tell their children all about JESUS
This was Jesus sacred command: ‘…and teach them to observe all that I have commanded you’. Mt 28: 20

childrens’s right to learn about evolution

It is taught everywhere, even though there is no shred of evidence that the universe begot itself. Show me one single iota of evidence that ‘nothing created something’. Even nature cannot create. It can enable matter/energy to change from one state to another, but it cannot originate. It can only replicate that which already exists.

Where’s the childrens’s right to learn about history

No works ever written with exception to Sacred Scripture, is entirely objective and authentic. Every author has a motive for writing history. Historians seldom record history ‘the way it is’ but ‘the way it is interpreted’! Every historian has a motive for writing. It is seldom to record ‘the truth’!

Where’s the childrens’s right to get a social life from an actual school then.

‘Social life’ is a social construction. Every culture and sub-culture constructs its own reality. Which reality is the right one?

In university, we get so many dumb christians,

That is an opinion. You are entitled to your opinion

It’s always "I’m right, you’re wrong

Tell me which Catholic teaching holds this? The Catholic Church is open to the possiblity that the Spirit speaks even to our seperated breathren

 

[6YRSHOME]

I was thirty one for the first and thirty five for the second.

CDL

Very funny, wise guy.

 

[6YRSHOME]

I know you think you are right in your beliefs, but I ask all people never to project them on their children. Most evangelical christiansin the US take their children out of school to be home schooled, and aren’t prosecuted. Where’s the childrens’s right to learn about evolution and history and get a social life from an actual school then. If a parent gets a degree from a university, then I consider it ok. In university, we get so many dumb christians, or born again christians, who’re always trying to convert others, and who aren’t even open to the possibility that they might be wrong, or that another faith or opinion has something to offer… It’s always “I’m right, you’re wrong.”

Please don’t tell me how to raise my children. It is my right and my duty to teach my children what I believe to be right and true. If they choose to reject what I have tried to teach them, when they are adults, they are free do that. God gave us free will after all. But I will do everything in my power to teach them love for Christ and His church for as long as I can.

Just because a parent brings their child up in the church does not mean that their children are being force fed or manipulated. Don’t lump all Christians into the same pot because of your negetive experience.

 

[GregoryPalamas]

Very funny, wise guy.

Antecedents to pronouns always did confuse me.

 

[Heath_Bar]

My daughter was in the hospital for about a month after she was born (she weighed 2 lbs. 14 oz). When she was finally able to go home, we made an appointment to get it done as soon as we could, which was about two months later, so she was about three months old. I was a brand new Catholic (less than a year) and it was very special to me to be able to get her baptized as an infant (I was baptized in the Church of Christ at 12 years old). What made it even more special, though, was the date when we got her baptized was the Sunday that the Church celebrates Jesus’ baptism! I could not have picked a better time if I had tried!

 

[water]

What made it even more special, though, was the date when we got her baptized was the Sunday that the Church celebrates Jesus’ baptism! I could not have picked a better time if I had tried!

What a special day!

 

[anna1978]

DD1 was baptised during the Easter Vigil 2003, aged 3-months-old.
DD2 was baptised during the Pentecost Mass 2005, aged 3 1/2-months-old.

Anna x

 

[Syele]

That depends on the “protestant”…

I’ve attended infant baptisms in a Lutheran Church…

True I did forget some denominations do baptize infants. Naturally I meant the ones who do not.

For those Protestants who don’t practice infant baptism, their “believer’s baptism” is, indeed, a lot like confirmation. But there are important differences.

In the Churches of Christ, Christian Church, and Disciples of Christ (one movement, really), the tradition states that one is saved WHEN he is baptized. Almost all of the other Protestants who do not practice infant baptism consider salvation and baptism to happen at different times, and baptism only symbolizes salvation. “I’ve been saved, my sins are washed away, and now I’m going to symbolize it publicly by submitting to baptism.”

So, in those communions, baptism is the person speaking to the observers. But in Catholicism a sacrament is God speaking to the person, telling him in an outward and visible way what is happening (hopefully!) inwardly in a spiritual way.

I think

Well in my church, one is Saved BEFORE baptism… so being saved at Baptism would be … late (for lack of a better word.) While Baptism serves as a symbol of what has already occurred, it is still required by God. Something I think is missed with the talk of things being a symbboll is that just because something is symbolic dosn’t stop God from responding to/being present in these things.

I know you think you are right in your beliefs, but I ask all people never to project them on their children. Most evangelical christiansin the US take their children out of school to be home schooled, and aren’t prosecuted. Where’s the childrens’s right to learn about evolution and history and get a social life from an actual school then. If a parent gets a degree from a university, then I consider it ok. In university, we get so many dumb christians, or born again christians, who’re always trying to convert others, and who aren’t even open to the possibility that they might be wrong, or that another faith or opinion has something to offer… It’s always “I’m right, you’re wrong.”

Do you have children? Even the belief that you shouldn’t project your beliefs can be projected on children. If we force all children to go to school where is their right to learn from the world around them, to experience real life instead of a canned one? No matter what decesion one makes for their child… it is still a decesion made for them. Children are not short adults. IF you really try to raise a kid without teaching them anything… you will end up with a dead child. To refuse to try and teach your child anything is child abuse. And anything to do try to teach them will be biased in one way or another.

 

[djrakowski]

My wife and I were received into the Church last September, and all four of our children were baptized last October. At the time, Jacob was 7 years and 7 months, Lauren was 6 years and 6 months, Alyssa was 4 years and 9 months, and Alexander was 4 months old.

Prior to being received into the Church, we were evangelicals, and belonged to a church that didn’t believe in infant baptism. Instead, they did infant dedications, and we participated in dedication ceremonies for our first three children.

 

[Rawb]

I know you think you are right in your beliefs, but I ask all people never to project them on their children.

I know you think you’re right in your beliefs, but I ask you to not project them onto us. You’re not even considering the possibility that you might be the one who’s wrong. Your argument makes about as much sense as saying “Well, I know she should be eating more fruits and vegetables, but I want her to be able to make the choice to eat healthy and live, so for now we just let her eat the cookies and ice cream that she wants, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Aren’t we good parents to be so open?”

BTW. the fact that you say you were the only non-baptised student at a Catholic school, but now you’ve “chosen for yourself” and are Buddhist is really not going to help your argument with us.

As to the actual topic of the thread, I don’t have any children, but if I’m ever granted any they’ll be baptised as soon as possible. Sorry about the rant but this is one of those things that REALLY get’s under my skin.

 

[BelFarfalla]

I know you think you are right in your beliefs, but I ask all people never to project them on their children. Most evangelical christiansin the US take their children out of school to be home schooled, and aren’t prosecuted. Where’s the childrens’s right to learn about evolution and history and get a social life from an actual school then. If a parent gets a degree from a university, then I consider it ok.

Seems that you are unaware of what home schooling is like.
In most states, a parent has to register that they are home schooling their child(ren). Many parents buy curriculums to ensure that the children get the required subject matter. Did you know that Stanford has a math and English program for grades 1-12? The students move at their own pace. Most of the kids who take that program test out of all high school math, to include calculus, combinatory, etc by the end of the 8th grade.
Additionally there are home school associations that enable the child to engage in field trips, sign up for classes from someone who is well versed in a particular subject, etc. The child also has access to all of the public school facilities in their districts. For example, our football team had home schooled teens who play on it. Or a child can elect to take a class given at a local school. Additionally, the home schooled child has to pass standardized tests to pass on to each grade and to graduate from high school.
While I’ve known a few home schooled children who are not getting a proper education, most home schooled kids children I’ve known are far better educated then those who attend public schools.

In university, we get so many dumb Christians, or born again Christians, who’re always trying to convert others, and who aren’t even open to the possibility that they might be wrong, or that another faith or opinion has something to offer… It’s always “I’m right, you’re wrong.”

My, your prejudices are showing. And I see that you consider yourself right, and them wrong. Is there really any difference between your self righteousness and theirs? I don’t think so.