As a Humanist, I look to science for answers to big questions. Fortunately, science has been doing a pretty good job lately. I don’t need anything supernatural in my life. I like reality and life on Earth is heaven enough for me.

As a Humanist parent, I will give my kids facts. Evolution, climate change, biology, to name a few of the relevant ones here. They will decide what to do with those facts. I hope they will be motivated by truth. They don’t need a god to be good. I have always been troubled by the pious idea that one does.

I am troubled by more things about religion…more than can be said here. I am troubled that toddlers are told ancient myth as truth before they have any cognitive ability to reason. I am troubled that kids who have faith can freely go around my son’s school wearing it on their sleeve (well, around their neck), while we all know it is best for my son to keep quiet.

All of this compelled me to write a children’s book to use as a springboard, for myself and the growing number of parents like me, to present the beauty of Humanism (because the word I previously used to describe myself is not so widely accepted). I should say that the other thing that compelled me was my 5 year old son carving crosses all over the house because of the ‘pretty design’ he saw at preschool!

The book is called “How: A Day in the Life of a Young Humanist”. In it, an inquisitive young boy asks a very important question.