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Originally Posted by nittanyalum
. . . but the challenge my brother and his wife are facing is a very smart 7-year-old, to whom nuances are not yet understandable. He just knows that the bible says one thing and his dino books say another. Things are black and white in his little 7-year-old mind, so treading the line of teaching him the shades of gray without undermining what they're trying to teach him about religion is what's keeping them on their toes.
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Having an Asperger's kid, for whom literalism is like breathing, I feel you on this. What we found we had to do was compare it to expressions (like Junie B. Jones' "dumb bunny," which doesn't mean you're a real bunny) or other stories that he could understand were not to be taken literally (can't think of one right now, though). He started catching on that way, but age does indeed help.
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