Praised by Newsweek as "a compelling read" and Library Journal as "accessible and down-to-earth," Dale McGowan's Parenting Beyond Belief offered freethinking parents everywhere a compassionate introduction to raising caring, ethical children without religious guidance. Now, Raising Freethinkers offers solutions to the unique challenges secular parents face and provides specific answers to common questions, as well as over 100 activities for both parents and their children. This book covers every important topic nonreligious parents need to know to help their children with their own moral and intellectual development, including advice on religious-extended-family issues, death and life, secular celebrations, wondering and questioning, and more. Complete with reviews of books, DVDs, curricula, educational toys, and online resources relevant to each chapter topic, Raising Freethinkers helps parents raise their children with confidence.
DALE MCGOWAN left a 15-year career as a college professor in 2006 to pursue writing full-time. Reviewers called his satirical novel CALLING BERNADETTE'S BLUFF "an undoubted triumph of satire" and "a riot." In addition to editing and co-authoring PARENTING BEYOND BELIEF ("irresistible...a compelling read" -- Newsweek), Dale co-authored RAISING FREETHINKERS, released in January 2009. He writes the secular parenting blog THE MEMING OF LIFE as well as parenting columns for Humanist Network News, and edits the Humanist Parenting website for the Institute for Humanist Studies in Albany, New York. In December 2008 he was named Harvard Humanist of the Year.
Dale holds degrees in physical anthropology and music theory from UC Berkeley as well as a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Minnesota. He and his wife Becca live with their three children near Atlanta, Georgia.
