Download or read book Relax It s Just God written by Wendy Thomas Russell and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold-medal winner of a Next Generation Book Award, silver-medal winner of the Independent Publishers Book Award. As featured on the PBS NewsHour “A gem of a book.” — LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW) A step-by-step guide to raising confident, open-minded kids in an age of religious intolerance. Relax, It's Just God offers parents fresh, practical and honest ways to address issues of God and faith with children while promoting curiosity and kindness, and successfully fending off indoctrination. A rapidly growing demographic cohort in America, secular parents are at the forefront of a major and unprecedented cultural shift. Unable to fall back on what they were taught as children, many of these parents are struggling, or simply failing, to address issues of God, religion and faith with their children in ways that promote honesty, curiosity, kindness and independence. The author sifts through hard data, including the results of a survey of 1,000 nonreligious parents, and delivers gentle but straightforward advice to both non-believers and open-minded believers. With a thoughtful voice infused with humor, Russell seamlessly merges scientific thought, scholarly research and everyday experience with respect for a full range of ways to view the world. "Relax, It's Just God" goes beyond the numbers to assist parents (and grandparents) who may be struggling to find the right time place, tone and language with which to talk about God, spirituality and organized religion. It encourages parents to promote religious literacy and understanding and to support kids as they explore religion on their own -- ensuring that each child makes up his or her own mind about what to believe (or not believe) and extends love and respect to those who may not agree with them. Subjects covered include: • Talking openly about our beliefs without indoctrinating kids • Making religious literacy fun and engaging • Talking about death without the comforts of heaven • Navigating religious differences with extended family members • What to do when kids get threatened with hell

Download or read book The Training of Children in the Christian Family written by Luther Allan Weigle and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for parents which deals with principles rather than with problems or cases. It aims to help parents to think for themselves and does not undertake to present ready-made formulas for the training of children or prescriptions for use in various emergencies. It is not mere theory, however; most of its materials lie within the author's experience as parent and as teacher. - Preface.

Download or read book God s Little Children written by Ione Pratt Hartford and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hints on Child training written by Henry Clay Trumbull and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Christmas approaches, Katie makes time to help others find the Christmas spirit as the magic wind first switches her with a Christmas tree farm employee, then with an unusual character at North Pole Winter Fun Park.

Download or read book Hints on Child Training written by H. Trumbull and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of thirty articles on the nature and scope and methods of the wise training of children. This work is the ripest result of the lifetime study and experience of a Christian educator in the sphere of the home training of children. Every precept in its pages has been tested by the principles of Christian philosophy and by actual experiment in more than one generation of little ones. "This is next to the Bible decidedly the best book for parents ever published. It is worth its weight in gold to those who have the responsibility of training children....The greatest element of danger today in this country of ours is the lack of home training. Dr. Trumball has written many good books, but this is better than all the rest for the good it will do." -The North-western Monthly "It would be an unspeakable advantage to every parent to read this book. Its thirty chapters are full of condensed, practical Christian hints to those to whom God has entrusted the training of immortal souls for Himself. Its reading might change many of their views, help them to better habits, and suggest many ways in which they could influence their children's minds for good. How beautiful households would be, molded after the fashion outlined in this book." -The Treasury; a Magazine of Religious and Current Thought "Parents and others having the training of children would be all the better, whatever their experience, if they were to give it a careful perusal." -Glasgow Herald "We wish every parent could read a chapter headed 'Will-training, rather than Will-breaking.' and another on the duty not only of setting an example, but of training children so that special characteristics shall be modified or strengthened as circumstances require. This book is full of happy suggestions as to home atmosphere, interest in the children's pleasures and troubles, and, the evil of punishments inflicted just before bedtime....This admirable little work is 'the outcome of experiment and observation as a father and grandfather,' and may be usefully introduced to the notice of parents who are only in the theoretical stage of education....We wish it a large circulation and careful reading." -The Literary World "Eminently practical. He tells what training is, the duty of training; its scope shows that the training of the will is not will braking, and so on....The work is heartily commended." -Young Men CONTENTS. I. Child-Training: What Is It? II. The Duty of Training Children III. Scope and Limitations of Child-Training IV. Discerning a Child's Special Need of Training V. Will-Training, Rather than Will-Breaking VI. The Place of "Must" in Training VII. Denying a Child Wisely VIII. Honoring a Child's Individuality IX. Letting Alone as a Means of Child-Training X. Training a Child to Self-Control XI. Training a Child Not to Tease XII. Training a Child's Appetite XIII. Training a Child as a Questioner XIV. Training a Child's Faith XV. Training Children to Sabbath Observance XVI. Training a Child in Amusements XVII. Training a Child to Courtesy XVIII. Cultivating a Child's Taste in Reading XIX. The Value of Table-Talk XX. Guiding a Child in Companionships XXI. Never Punish a Child in Anger XXII. Scolding is Never in Order XXIII. Dealing Tenderly with a Child's Fears XXIV. The Sorrows of Children XXV. The Place of Sympathy in Child-Training XXVI. Influence of the Home Atmosphere XXVII. The Power of a Mother's Love XXVIII. Allowing Play to a Child's Imagination XXIX. Giving Added Value to a Child's Christmas XXX. Good-Night Words

Download or read book Losing Our Religion written by Christel Manning and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fastest growing religion in America is--none! Among adults under 30, those poised to be the parents of the next generation, fully one third are religiously unaffiliated. Yet these "Nones," especially parents, still face prejudice in a culture where religion is widely seen as good for your kids. What do Nones believe, and how do they negotiate tensions with those convinced that they ought to provide their children with a religious upbringing?"--Publisher description.

Download or read book To Train Up a Child written by Michael Pearl and published by No Greater Joy Ministries. This book was released on 1994-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Turning the hearts of the fathers to the children"--Cover.

Download or read book Religious Training of Children in the School the Family and the Church written by Catharine Esther Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Training Children in Godliness written by Jacob Abbott and published by Christian Liberty Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with a view to helping raise children to lead healthy Christian lives, this title will provide specific ways to train and disciple young people for life and for eternity.

Download or read book On the Religious Education of Children written by Annie Besant and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handing Down the Faith written by Christian Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new examination of how and why American religious parents seek to pass on religion to their children The most important influence shaping the religious and spiritual lives of children, youth, and teenagers is their parents. A myriad of studies show that the parents of American youth play the leading role in shaping the character of their religious and spiritual lives, even well after they leave home and often for the rest of their lives. We know a lot about the importance of parents in faith transmission. However we know much less about the actual beliefs, feelings, and activities of the parents themselves, what Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk call the "intergenerational transmission of religious faith and practice." To address that gap, this book reports the findings of a new national study of religious parents in the United States. The findings and conclusions in Handing Down the Faith are based on 215 in-depth, personal interviews with religious parents from many traditions and different parts of the country, and sophisticated analyses of two nationally representative surveys of American parents about their religious parenting. Handing Down the Faith explores the background beliefs informing how and why religious parents seek to pass on religion to their children; examines how parenting styles interact with parent religiousness to shape effective religious transmission; shows how parents have been influenced by their experiences as children influenced by their own parents; reveals how religious parents view their congregations and what they most seek out in a local church, synagogue, temple, or mosque; explores the experiences and outlooks of immigrant parents including Latino Catholics, East Asian Buddhists, South Asian Muslims, and Indian Hindus. Smith and Adamczyk step back to consider how American religion has transformed over the last 100 years and to explain why parents today shoulder such a huge responsibility in transmitting religious faith and practice to their children. The book is rich in empirical evidence and unique in many of the topics it explores and explains, providing a variety of sometimes counterintuitive findings that will interest scholars of religion, social scientists interested in the family, parenting, and socialization; clergy and religious educators and leaders; and religious parents themselves.

Download or read book The Training of the Twig religious Education of Children written by C. L. Drawbridge and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Training of Children in Religion Classic Reprint written by George Hodges and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Training of Children in Religion Sometimes when a child thus nurtured grows into youth and comes at last into his inevitable independence, and his own true will appears, his parents are much surprised. Thus and thus he did when he could not help himself, but now he is revealed. The father and mother cannot understand how their son who was such a quiet and gentle lad at home, and whose marks for conduct were so good in the private school, can be have at college as if he had a devil. They are rather inclined to lay the blame upon the devil. But the probable reason for the difference is in the fact that the boy had only a dependent goodness. The obedi ence which he showed was Of their impos ing, not of his own choosing. They con trolled him, but they did not educate him. They did not bring him up so that be freely and naturally and gladly preferred the good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Readiness for Religion written by Ronald Goldman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, first published in 1965, the author explores the implications of research for an alternative approach to religious education. The book deals with the psychological bases of religious development, reviewing the natural limitations as well as the basic needs of the young, and how religious education should be affected by educational theory and practice. The author also examines what content and methods of teaching are consistent with the healthy development of children and adolescents. Teachers in schools, students in training, lecturers, clergy and ministers, and local education authority committees will welcome the book as an important aid to the task of rethinking syllabuses and the need for more child-centred methods of teaching.

Download or read book The Religious Training of Children 1881 written by John Wylde and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Download or read book Hats of Faith written by Medeia Cohan and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hats of Faith is a simple and striking introduction to the shared custom of religious head coverings. With bright images and a carefully researched interfaith text, this thoughtful book inspires understanding and celebrates our culturally diverse modern world.

Download or read book The Religious Training of Children written by Abby Morton Diaz and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Religious Training of Children by Abby Morton Diaz is a thoughtful and insightful guide that offers practical advice and perspectives on nurturing the spiritual growth of children. Diaz's wisdom and expertise in child development shine through as she explores the importance of instilling values, fostering religious understanding, and nurturing a sense of moral responsibility. Through her thoughtful reflections and practical suggestions, Diaz provides parents and caregivers with a valuable resource to navigate the challenges of raising spiritually aware and compassionate children.