Will you give your children you prejudices?

[Pfer]

After reading one thread in particular today I thought I'd ask this question.

We are all prejudice about something...me? I hate people who are always late for meetings, I hate people asking for your advice and then ignoring it completely, I hate death in the name of religion, I hate people who are unnaccepting of others colour/creed/sex/race/sexuality etc. But at the same time I accept all of these things as part and parcel of the world. I know we are all different. I don't say people are wrong if their opinion is different to mine, but I will question it to try to gain understanding of where they are coming from.

I for one will try my damndest to give my children UPR (unconditional positive regard) in other words the intelligence enough to accept peoples differences whether you like them or not. I will be teaching that it's wrong to persecute others just because they are different from you.

Won't you all be doing the same?

Are Sun readers all stupid and unemployable then?

What I want to pass on to the children is to treat other people as you would like to be treated yourself and to always try to put yourself in the other person's place. So faced with someone who has very strong views they would try to understand why those people feel so strongly.

I do have strong views about one or two things - like politeness even when you disagree with someone - and the kids will get punished if they don't go along with those. So yes I will try very hard to pass some things on. I don't think its right for me to try and force my views on most issues onto my children. I want to teach them to think for theselves. Unfortunately I don't think that is generally true on mumsnet, especially with those who wish to pass on religious intolerance.

I think kids learn to think for themselves even if you as their mum are quite prejudiced tbh.

My Dad and his sister had exactly the same upbringing, v close in age, etc. Lived quite shut in 'parochial' lives in a small mining village, no money to give them any experience beyond. Their mother was alomsot pathological in her fear of people who were 'different', and was capable of being really offensive.

My aunt is THE most racist, bigoted, narrow-mined person you ever could wish not to meet. My Dad just abhors any form of bigotry and has developed a very open mind. He isn't politicised, he just views it as 'bad manners' to hold irratiponal bad opinions of people you don't know!

How did he escape his mother's prejudice? I don't think it was rebellion, just his own mind.

If kids manage to escape their parents prejudices its possibly due to their friends/ schools. However I see lots of kids who are grwoing up with all their parents prejudices. And since I didn't make it clear before - the anti-Christian attitude on mumsnet really concernes me. I regard that as religious intolerance.