Had no idea where to post this! Feel free to move.
We read Bible stories with DD (28 months) and she loves them and wants to read them over and over. Lately she has started asking more questions.
Yesterday we were reading David and Goliath and she was asking what the sling was for. I just answered "for throwing stones". "Why?" "Because David threw the stones at Goliath because he was a bad man because he didn't love God." I didn't know what to say. ( I don't want to alter the integrity of the story, but at the same time I don't want to give her ideas about things like throwing stones, hurting people... there's a whole lot of things that you wouldn't actually want your kids to do when you think about the actual details of many Bible stories!)
I then talked about how David loved God and Goliath didn't love God, and God said David had to fight Goliath so that David and his friends would be safe so David listened to God - trying to make it more of a lesson about what we should do, rather than the details of throwing stones and killing people!
Anybody got thoughts on this? I want to teach her to read the stories and love them and learn from them, I'm just worried about her focusing on the smaller negative details.