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When parents and teens clash over meaning-making approaches

My teenage daughter and I used to have amazing conversations about evolution and astronomy that felt deeply meaningful to both of us, but now she's saying that scientific materialism is depressing and she wants to believe in 'something more,' and I don't know how to respond without dismissing her needs.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're realizing that the worldview that sustains you might not be meeting your child's developmental need for hope and purpose.

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“Where Are You with Scientific naturalism as spirituality?”

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