S. admits it. She and her husband have been lying to her in-laws about going to church. I suggested they were fibbing, but whatever you call it, the truth remains: it\u2019s so much easier to pretend, on the phone to her husband\u2019s minister father and his wife, that the religion S. and her husband both grew up in remains a part of their daily life. But as S. said when she described her quandary to me, the differences between the way she and her husband practice their religion and the way his parents do can\u2019t be tiptoed around for long \u201d\u201d not with a chatty toddler in the mix.<\/p>\n
S. wanted to know how she and her husband could navigate this generational divide without alienating his parents (and although S.\u2019s husband wasn\u2019t the writer, he\u2019s trying to figure this out, too). And (as many of you suspected) she was kind of hoping for a bigger endorsement of taking the easy way out: teaching her daughter the art of evasion, and dancing around the subject forever more.<\/p>\n