Good dicision that you have made. I think Christian nanny is better than non Christian family member(s) to babysit our children.
1. nanny will listen and respect our way of parenting even when they don't agree with us because we are their boss, after all.
2. We don't feel pressure if we don't take nanny's opinions. We don't need to justify our decision all the time.
3. No other family members and relativies will accuse us mistreat our parents just because our parents were not happy by seeing the way we live and have their one way expectation on us regardless.
4. When we express how we want nanny to interact with our children, nanny will not take it personally and her feeling will not get hurt.
5. With a Christian nanny, we gain an efficient human recourse in the family, not 2 teenagers in the family to wrestle with.
The hard part is we cannot tell for sure a true Christian from a false one. But we can be sure that our partents love our children and want them to be safe and secure.
Beside praying for our children, we can read the Bible to our children. It is not religion, non virtual of religion. It is simply God's words and our faith will grow by hearing the word of God.
Romans 10 (New American Standard Bible)
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
When we are reading it to our children, we just tell our children that we really think this is the truth and all events in the Bible did toke place and those people was real.
When we read Micky Mouse, Santa Claus, story, we tell our children it is a not true story. And that is none of your husband's business because you only be honest with yourself and express what you think is true and not. It is still up to your children to make their own dicision.
Off course he has his right and freedom to express that he doesn't believe the Bible telling the truth, but have no business to label the words in a book is religion. If that is the case, we can call any of book he holds strongly as his religion. That might make him mad though. So for the sake of keeping peace in your houshold, swallow it. I say it here for your benefits only.
Dear sister in the Lord, I want you to recognize that being Christ Follower (a Christian) is not a religion. If it is a religion, then, commonest,
馬列主義,毛主席語錄, are religion too even though they are atheist.
Thank you very much for your sharing and information! It is a strong inspiration to me. I reflect that what I should do, being a mother, a wife and a daughter of GOD.
Dear vakiac
You are welcome. I am very thankful that you take my words in a positive way. Indeed, I speak with love. May what we write here can edify each other in God's way according to His words.