Hi. I am the new parent/ guardian of a kid whose mother recently died of cancer. She was (unfortunately) indoctrinated by her cousins who are LDS. I am atheist. However, I do not think it would be good for my child to try to remove her belief in God but I would like to deemphasize the sin/ hell / angry god stuff. She is neurodiverse/idd and reads at a 3rd grade level but has teen interests. She has also asked for a Bible/ Bible story book but a lot of those stories and kids bibles make my skin crawl, the sin stuff has already had a terrible effect on her mental health so I’m not jazzed about Noah’s Ark , ya know? Are there any good kids books or simple readers with actual good for your mental health messages that are still “Bible”-ish? (FWIW I grew up IDF Baptist and it was very harmful for me so I am really not able to just roll with that. I do, however, want to respect her belief in god/heaven. I just don’t want to teach her not to speak up for herself or watch her constantly feel like god is mad at her for what she sees as sins but are really just basic mistakes. One day she was literally praying for forgiveness because she dropped a piece of ice on the floor.)
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