Atheist parents!

This is why it's important to teach kids how to think, not what to think. I'm an atheist as well, and it always seemed to me the best idea to teach kids about religion from a historical perspective, and make sure they know all about things like the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials, the Taliban, and other atrocities committed by religion or in religion's name, so that if they are approached by members of proselytizing sects, they'll know that the sunshine-and-roses sales pitch they're given belies what is most likely a very bloody and horrid underbelly.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well, that depends. If my authority is justified from an objective point of view (e.g. don't touch the stove burner, it's hot), then I can only hope I raised them to be sensible enough to see the logic in my actions.

If my authority is justified from my perspective based on my set of ideals, then the onus is on me to acknowledge the subjectivity of my assertion/order/command/desire and realize that they may be justified in challenging it.

Really, what would happen is that it would raise the standard of parenting for me and demand that I expend more effort and thought in not only what I initially teach my children, but also in how I follow it up by setting my own examples. If I teach them how to smell a hypocrite, it then places the burden on me to not be hypocritical. If I want my children to think or feel that what I say and do is right or logical, then I have to make sure that what I say and do is, in fact, right and logical when placed under outside scrutiny.

There's nowhere I can't reach.