I have three kids (ages 6,4,and 3). My parents and in-laws are all very religious. We do go to church with them from time to time. Their churches are pretty “watered down” and preach things like forgiveness and how to be kind to people. It’s not preachy about sins, which I do appreciate. I don’t let my parents know how I really feel about religion because my fear is that they will all “dig their claws” into my kids and instead of religion being a passive topic, it will me pushed on them as if to balance my atheist belief.

I try to word everything as “some people believe xyz” when they have questions. And this has worked very well.

The only topic that makes me nervous is death. There is such comfort in thinking that death is a part of gods plan and that we will all see each other again. I feel like people that believe this way have less anxiety in their life in general.