This book provides ways in which schoolteachers and parents can nurture and foster these particular characteristics of children's spirituality. It also considers two factors, material pursuit and trivialising, which may inhibit children's expression of their spirituality. It will be of great interest to educators, policy makers, and parents.
An introduction to the increasingly popular topic of children's spirituality, showing how choices made in churches and homes can stimulate or stifle a child's spiritual development. Suitable for anyone who works with children.
In The Spiritual Child, psychologist Lisa Miller presents the next big idea in psychology: the science and the power of spirituality.
A Hopi girl who knows for a fact that we are resurrected as birds; an African American child who believes God exists as a hurricane to “blow away” drug dealers; a young Christian who needs his faith to cope with the death of his sister, ...
Addresses the religious and spiritual lives of children of various faiths, detailing, in youngsters' own words and pictures, their views on God, salvation, and the meaning of life
Discusses God's place in the universe and how God touches our world.
Stonehouse, C. (2006). After a child's first dance with God: Accompanying children on a Protestant spiritual journey. In K. M. Yust, A. N. Johnson, S. E. Sasso, & E. C. Roehlkepartain (Eds.), Nurturing child and adolescent spirituality: ...
Church scholars, from varying denominational backgrounds, discuss four, basic, common beliefs about children’s spiritual formation with the goal of determining which is most scripturally sound.
Maintaining that spiritual development is an integral element in child development, Barbara Kimes Myers provides a framework for the discussion of spirit and spirituality in the lives of children.
Yet often they are unsure about which current trends should be embraced. This book will help equip these people with the grounding needed to evaluate trends and with specific suggestions for moving forward.
(2006). spiritual development in childhood and adolescence: Moving to the scientific mainstream. in e. C. roehlkepartain, p. e. King, l. Wagener, & p. l. Benson (eds.), The handbook ofspiritual development in childhood and adolescence ...