To wish people would stop asking when the christening is?

[GiveHerHellFromUs]

DD is 6 months old.
Over the past 4 weeks 6 different family members have asked when the christening is.

Neither of us are religious. Neither of us are christened. None of our parents are religious. The last time we attended church together was 4 years ago for a wedding. I went 3 years ago for a funeral. That's it.

If we were intending on getting DD christened, we would definitely have done it before she was old enough to be upset by a strange man pouring water on her head (obviously strange to her, not saying vicars are strange ).

So why, oh why, are the people who supposedly know us best STILL asking when the christening is, and then looking at us like we have 3 heads when we say she's not having one?

Same here, although it's just one side of the family that keep asking.

DH isn't christened and I don't believe I'm organised religion. The only time we step foot in a church is to go to a christening or a wedding. We'd feel like utter hypocrites if we got DC christened. None of my christened family members go to church. Of all the christenings I've been to in the last few years it feels like an excuse for a party and it's awful sitting their listening to the promises made, knowing no one believes it and that some of them think it's a big joke.

And that's exactly what I tell them and I still get raised eyebrows at our decision!

See, I don't need or want a naming ceremony either. She has a name and I don't need a party (or the expense or stress!) just to please anyone else. We're very happy with our little family and don't need an additional celebration just to please anybody else.

It's funny that people who have asked include FIL and my sister - people who haven't been christened themselves and know that we're not religious in the slightest. They've both been persistent questioning too which just seems bizarre.

I do think christenings are lovely, if you're Christian and want to bring your child up within the church, that's really nice.

But I do think anyone who christens their child for the sake of a knees up or additional gifts is kind of disrespectful to the religion.

My responses have been getting more and more blunt so I think someone will take offence eventually. But at least they'll also take the hint

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I'm surprised, I can honestly say nobody ever asked me or husband that question. Neither have I ever asked anyone else!

Just say you prefer people to choose for themselves when they are older (that's what most people say); indeed there are some churches (Baptists for example), who do not perform infant baptism.