Did anyone NOT baptize their kids?

[MosMom]

Nope, no reason to do it.

 

[TinkerbellMama]

Does anyone have kids that aren't baptized or is anyone not baptized themselves?

Just wondering.

ETA: This is for whatever faith and/or denomination you are.

I was not baptized and neither was my son. My dh was, but he had to ask his parents to find out. He attended church sporadically as a child but no one in his family cares to now (and they haven't for about 20 years). We are not Christians (dh and myself) so there is no chance our son will ever be baptized unless he chooses to do so as an adult. Which would freak us out, but at that point it would be his business, of course.

 

[TinkerbellMama]

I wish we would not have baptized our daughter. We aren't really religious. But our families were pushing us into it. So, we caved and did it. Big Mistake, we now convince ourselves, that we were just thanking a higher being for our precious gift.

My youngest brother is the only one of us kids who was baptized...and he's good and ticked about it! He is not a Christian (neither is our mother...long story as to why he was baptized in the first place) and it really does seem to bother him that he was baptized in a faith he soundly rejects.

 

[TinkerbellMama]

I would like to add that we had a tree planting ceremony for our son when he was 6 months old. It was a pretty big deal...ceremony with reception afterwards. We planted a tree in his great-grandmother's yard. We had readings in his honor...poems, special words from family members and friends, and he got a Cherokee name from my mother. There was nothing remotely Christian about it, yet it satisfied the nominal Christians on dh's side of the family.

 

[KikiFan]

I was baptisted but my daughter was not.

 

[disneyfan67]

I wasn't baptized or christened as a kid and neither are my two boys. I'm not too sure about my wife though and it has never came up. I guess my family is headed straight to hell in a hand basket, as the old saying goes.

 

[bumbershoot]

I was not baptized or christened, nor was my husband, nor is our child. We're not Christian or any other religion that might feel the need to do that.

 

[Nynaeve]

If there is a god and it decides that if my children die, they should spend eternity in torment, I've got a special finger gesture to share with said god.

I am, I was raised catholic. I've broken away from the church, in all honesty, they just sickened me. DH was never baptized, one of his parents was not religious, and they felt no need to. DD wasn't either, I feel no need to push her into the religion I was raised as. If she makes the choice when she's older, we'll support her in whatever she wants.

 

[Finally08]

I'm not and my kids aren't. The dads were, but in both cases (two marriages in case you wonder why I say "dads") the churches refused to do the kids until I had it done myself.
Sorry, I'm kinda old for a public dunking.

 

[BabyPiglet]

I'm not baptized, and I probably won't baptize any future children I have.

 

[PaulaSB12]

None of my family has, my sister told her husband she could get the children babtised catholic but he never did, she never signed up to doing it when she married and they are ivf children as well. The odd thing is I never knew about my father so he had to have a non religious funeral, I found out after that his mother was babtist (he would never talk about her as she committed suicide when he was small) but I still don't know about him.

 

[Cindy B]

I would like to add that we had a tree planting ceremony for our son when he was 6 months old. It was a pretty big deal...ceremony with reception afterwards. We planted a tree in his great-grandmother's yard. We had readings in his honor...poems, special words from family members and friends, and he got a Cherokee name from my mother. There was nothing remotely Christian about it, yet it satisfied the nominal Christians on dh's side of the family.

Now that sounds like a great thing. I'd much rather do something like that that a "water insurance policy".

I've been baptized (infant and adult--DON'T ASK!) and I am so over religion. My kids aren't baptized. If they ever choose to do it, it would be on thier own terms as an adult/teen.

 

[luvsJack]

Just curious: Some of you who are not Christian have stated it would bother you if your child chose to be baptized in a church. Why? And I don't mean to sound judgemental or anything--that's the beauty of freedom of choice, its your choice as to what you believe.
I am Christian now, did not raise my oldest two children in church. My oldest ds does not go to church--has been baptized, his choice at 19. My younger ds (middle child) was baptized at 13, his choice. He is now 23 and for a few years has had a lot of questions about Christianity and whether or not he really believes in God. I have never gotten upset with him about it, in fact we have had several interesting discussions about it.

 

[Tiggernut_jadie]

My DH and I both were as babies - it was the 'done' thing neither of our families were regualr church goers!

My DD is not!

 

[crz4mm2]

I am but my kids are not.
I was baptized as an adult. I chose to let my kids have the same choice.

 

[Tantor]

Not baptized, daughter not baptized. She can decide if she wants to do that when she becomes an adult.

 

[MomofKatie]

DD wasn't baptized. DH is actively against organized religion (although does believe in a higher power), and I am pretty apathetic about the whole thing- I am agnostic with atheist leanings. We felt that it would be hypocritical to join a church we had no intention of actually attending just to get DD's head sprinkled. DH's family was very upset, but to their credit, have never once mentioned it to me, knowing my views (DH's dad did, however, chide DH that "we raised you better than that" when telling him how disappointed they were that DD wasn't baptized). We let them guilt us into having a minister marry us (we drew the line at a church wedding, though- we had an outdoor ceremony), but resisted the baptism thing. If DD wants to become a churchgoer when she is older, that's her decision.

 

[mumom95]

I was not baptized until I was 20, it was my choice. Both my children were baptised at about 2 months.

 

[beattyfamily]

I got baptized as an adult to become fully Catholic. In that process I found out I was the only child of 5 children that was NOT baptised as an infant.

I since have had both my girls baptized. When they are adults, they can decide if they will follow the Church of their birth/childhood but at least they'll have the sacraments done if they decide (hopefully) to stay.

I was hurt and disappointed that I was the only child in my family who didn't go through the sacraments but rectified it as an adult.

 

[momof3disneyholics]

I was baptized Mormon when I was 25. In the Mormon faith, we don't baptize babies, they must be at least 8 and comprehend why they are being baptized. My oldest is 11 and still not ready yet. I want him to fully understand what he is doing if he chooses to do so.