Jen Atkin

So my husband is Jewish and I was raised Mormon.

So neither of us are like super practicing.

He doesn't go to temple.

I don't think that our kids, to be honest, I'm going to take in the church of Dr. Becky.

Like I feel like we're going to navigate this and the way that we're breaking emotional and generational trauma as we're not gentle parenting.

Right.

But we're like breaking a lot of the things that maybe we wish we wouldn't have had passed on to us.

And I think with religion, I kind of feel the same way.

I want my kids to have a new version, a new form of spirituality.

And I was just thinking about this last night.

I actually grew up praying with my grandparents.

They prayed together every night on their knees every night and just prayed for family members, prayed for if they read in the news that there was a fire or if there was an earthquake.

And I remember growing up around that and feeling so protected by that ritual.

And I think I want to start doing that with the kids.

And if it's not to a certain God, it's even just to the universe and saying a prayer for people.

And I think it'll teach them

That like, you know, we're all just little ants on this planet.

I love that.

And Jen was like, don't fucking hate you.

And I'm like, I fucking hate you.