Reddit reviews How the World Works: A Hands-On Guide to Our Amazing Planet (Explore the Earth)

I love my SO, I love his kids, but I swear that one of them actively tries to irritate me.... I was reading this science book with my son at the table the other day. It talks about all sorts of physical science things in a way that kids understand and even has pop-ups and stuff to demonstrate a bunch of it. It's awesome and my 6 year old loves it. My SO's middle child comes over, starts reading over our shoulders (which didn't bother me), and then exclaims that the book is wrong because the big bang wasn't real and the earth isn't that old because church told him so.

...So now my son is looking back and forth between us, obviously confused and concerned about the validity of one of his favorite books, and I am trying to figure out how to intervene without overstepping boundaries and confusing my son more... So finally I explain that while some religious people hold that belief, we prefer to believe in the science-backed version. Then he started arguing with me and told my son that I was wrong because I don't believe in god.... I had to tell him to leave the room so I wouldn't blow up at him.... I'm not against religion, to each their own and all that, but when your SO's ex goes all religious and indoctrinates their kids with these religious beliefs so strongly that they feel the need to tell your six year old that he's going to hell for not believing in god, I just..... sigh I don't know whether to be angry or upset or sad or disappointed or what.... It just irritates me. Especially since I think a lot of his drive behind this was simply to irritate me because that has become his new hobby over the last two weeks...

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