Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality

Author: Karen-Marie Yust

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780742544635

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Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers representing the world's major religious traditions, the book introduces new voices, challenges assumptions, raises new questions, and broadens the base of knowledge and investment in this important domain of life. Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality will set the stage for new waves of scholarship and dialogue within and across traditions, disciplines, and cultures that will enrich understanding and strengthen how the world's religious traditions, and others, understand and cultivate the spiritual lives of children and adolescents around the globe.

Parenting Today’s Teens
Parenting Today’s Teens

Author: Mark Gregston

Publisher: Certa Publishing

Published: 2018-09-04

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1946466514

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Parenting today’s teens is not for cowards. Your teenager is facing unprecedented and confusing pressures, temptations, and challenges in today’s culture. Mark Gregston has helped teens and their parents through every struggle imaginable, and now he shares his biblical, practical insights with you in bite-size pieces. Punctuated with Scriptures, prayers, and penetrating questions, these one-page devotions will give you the wisdom and assurance you need to guide your teen through these years and reach the other side with relationships intact.

Nurturing the Spiritual Growth of Your Adolescent
Nurturing the Spiritual Growth of Your Adolescent

Author: Michael Carotta

Publisher: Harcourt Religious Publishers

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9780159004821

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The young person is the starting point of adolescent catechesis -- he or she has a story to tell, hopes and aspirations to be encouraged, and experiences to share.Living Our Faith meets young adolescents where they are, with materials that honor their experience and invite them to grow in their faith. Incorporating a unique Christian skills dimension into text lessons and family materials, Living Our Faith provides young people (and the adults with whom they share their lives) the opportunity to acquire, develop, and practice important skills of religious experience, gospel living, moral decision making, forecasting, and emotion management.The titles in the Living Our Faith series are based on the foundational themes of our Catholic faith, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Renewing the Vision, and diocesan guidelines for young adolescent catechesis, and present fundamental teachings in ways designed to engage and challenge the young adolescent. Lessons integrate doctrine, worship, morality, prayer, community, and active participation in the Church's life and mission.Faith formation of young people does not occur in isolation; it both affects and is affected by the family experience. Living Our Faith: Nurturing the Spiritual Growth of Your Adolescent is an innovative component that encourages adult family members to reinforce Christian life skills in their own lives and to mentor the young adolescent in the same skills.

Nurturing the Human Spirit Through Character Development in Adolescents
Nurturing the Human Spirit Through Character Development in Adolescents

Author: Rev. Dr. Bronco H. Crooke

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2015-10-13

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 151441001X

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Nurturing the Human Spirit through Character Development in Adolescents was designed to discover and develop the spiritual nature of our adolescents by assisting them in discerning and constructing positive character-building skills. By familiarizing them to their own and other religious beliefs and practices, the adolescents will be able to more easily accommodate themselves to their diverse neighborhoods and schools. By understanding their peers’ religious and social practices, a common underlying tension is removed from their daily lives, enabling them to better learn in an educational setting.

The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans
The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans

Author: Almeda Wright

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-07-03

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0190664754

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How do young African Americans approach their faith in God when continued violence and police brutality batters the news each day? In The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans, Almeda M. Wright argues that African American youth separate their everyday lives and their spirituality into mutually exclusive categories. This results in a noticeable division between their experiences of systemic injustices and their religious beliefs and practices. Yet Wright suggests that youth can and do teach the church and society myriad lessons through their theological reflections and actions. Giving special attention to the resources of African American religious and theological traditions, Wright creates a critical pedagogy for integrating spirituality into the lives of African American youth, as well as confronting and navigating spiritual fragmentation and systemic injustice.

The Spiritual Child
The Spiritual Child

Author: Dr. Lisa Miller

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2015-05-05

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1250032911

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In The Spiritual Child, psychologist Lisa Miller presents the next big idea in psychology: the science and the power of spirituality. She explains the clear, scientific link between spirituality and health and shows that children who have a positive, active relationship to spirituality: * are 40% less likely to use and abuse substances * are 60% less likely to be depressed as teenagers * are 80% less likely to have dangerous or unprotected sex * have significantly more positive markers for thriving including an increased sense of meaning and purpose, and high levels of academic success. Combining cutting-edge research with broad anecdotal evidence from her work as a clinical psychologist to illustrate just how invaluable spirituality is to a child's mental and physical health, Miller translates these findings into practical advice for parents, giving them concrete ways to develop and encourage their children's—as well as their own—well-being. In this provocative, conversation-starting book, Dr. Miller presents us with a pioneering new way to think about parenting our modern youth.

Nurturing Children's Spirituality
Nurturing Children's Spirituality

Author: Holly Allen

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2008-03-01

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1556355580

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Children's spiritual development is currently a hot topic in Christian circles, as well as in other fields and disciplines such as educational psychology, medicine, developmental psychology, education, and sociology. The key question for Christian scholars and educators is How do Christian beliefs and practices uniquely interrelate with children's spirituality? In 2003 and again in 2006, a national conference entitled Children's Spirituality Conference: Christian Perspectives examined children's spirituality from a distinctly Christian standpoint. This book is a collection of the best materials from the 2006 conference. The first half of the book addresses definitional, historical, and theological concerns related to spiritual development in children. The second half explores best practices for fostering spiritual growth among our children--in our homes, families, churches, Christian schools, and among special populations of children--from a wide spectrum of Christian scholars and practitioners. The volume closes with John Westerhoff's moving keynote address and Catherine Stonehouse and Scottie May's eloquent, culminating plenary address. Nurturing Children's Spirituality provides a rich cross section of the current research and writing by Christian scholars on children's spirituality. Contributors: Holly Catterton Allen, Michael J. Anthony, Stacy Berg, Chris J. Boyatzis, MaLesa Breeding, Marilyn Brownlee, Linda V. Callahan, Jane Carr, Mara Lief Crabtree, Karen Crozier, James Riley Estep Jr., Jeffrey E. Feinberg, Stephanie Goins, Judy Harris Helm, Dana Kennamer Hood, Sungwon Kim, Kevin Lawson, Scottie May, Marcia McQuitty, Heidi Schultz Oschwald, Donald Ratcliff, Pam Scranton, Timothy A. Sisemore, Catherine Stonehouse, La Verne Tolbert, T. Wyatt Watkins, John H. Westerhoff III

Nurturing Spirituality in Children
Nurturing Spirituality in Children

Author: Peggy Joy Jenkins

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-06-30

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1439102708

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The greatest gifts that a child can receive are an opened mind, a caring heart, and ignited creativity. This fully expanded, illustrated edition of Nurturing Spirituality in Children includes sixty-two simple and thought-provoking lessons that can be shared with children in less than ten minutes each. The lessons are easy to prepare and understand; they use commonly available materials and complement a wide variety of religious perspectives. Children who develop a healthy balance of mind and spirit are better able to respond to life's challenges when given the tools to think and discover for themselves. Dr. Jenkins gives scores of age-appropriate activities that help children learn empathy, trust, forgiveness, growth, and inner peace.

Joining Children on the Spiritual Journey
Joining Children on the Spiritual Journey

Author: Catherine Stonehouse

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 1998-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0801058074

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Analyzes the spiritual formation of young children and calls for renewed attention to scripture and the involvement of families in the process.