Often, money is a factor as well, so that rather than teaching to
grow spiritual children into adults, they only teach to grow their own wallet and bank account.
Not exact matches
Expecting your
child to
grow in their faith thanks to a couple of hours input at church each week, if their home life is a
spiritual desert, is clearly unrealistic and an abrogation of parental responsibilities.
This capacity for treating the sexual identity of
children as crucial to
spiritual formation is one of the best gifts a Christian parent can give to a
child growing up in a world incapable of respecting sexuality.
I had to
grow up and be an adult... not the dependent
child, the subject of a relegated religion, and not even the middle manager of my
spiritual life.
The document stresses the importance of the
spiritual formation of
children so that as they
grow up, their awareness of their own sexuality occurs in the context of their vocation to love.
This chapter looks at verse 14 and the topic of guarding the
spiritual children in the church, and the next chapter will consider verses 15 and 16 about guiding and
growing spiritually mature Christians into greater depth and Christlikeness.
When we confuse traditionalism with Tradition, and we all tend to do that, especially as we
grow older, we become an impediment rather than an inducement to faith in our own
children and all those who have not yet begun a
spiritual pilgrimage of faith.
Message from Ivana «Dear Parents, Future Parents,
Spiritual Researchers, After many years that I've spent examining and studying
children's psychology and exploring the wonders of pedagogy some essential questions kept following me and inspiring my journey: - Is there such a thing as an ideal parent and an ideal
growing environment for our
children?
Like most small
children, I was naturally
spiritual, yet I
grew up in an atheist family where any kind of connection or devotion to God or Spirit was...
I will leave you with one last thought: if we develop patience, tolerance, compassion, a sense of oneness, and other
spiritual qualities in
children and help them nurture these qualities as they
grow to adulthood, what might this do to our world?
The school must be a place which enables each
child to
grow naturally and holistically in all directions: physical, intellectual, emotional and
spiritual.
Presented as more whimsical than
spiritual, the idea of parents in the afterlife watching their
children grow was still a comforting thought.
Compassion helps individual
children grow in all aspects of life: physical, mental, social and
spiritual.
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Providing some consistency in their belief is, however, necessary if they want to make sure that their
children grow up with a sense of
spiritual stability.