Real Kids Real Faith is reimagining how children’s spirituality looks, sounds, and acts in this moment.

Our Vision

Growing up human today means facing big challenges and high expectations. So we’re rethinking how to help children respond creatively to whatever life brings their way.

Children’s spiritual lives don’t come prepackaged, but are stitched together by snuggles on the sofa, tears over a lost lovey, and gaming with friends next door. Their spirituality is also shaped by a parent’s job loss, learning challenges, and allergies that mean nobody else can have peanut butter.

The good, the bad, the really hard – it affects a child’s spirit. And we’ll address it all.

The ideas you’ll find here are research-based, motivated by a desire to see kids flourish in significant ways. This is important work, best done together. We’re glad you’ve joined us.

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Wonder Walls

Asking “why?” is stereotypical behavior for two-year-olds. Parents and caregivers lament the seemingly incessant queries of young children and laugh about the awkward timing of questions about intimate subjects.

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  • Welcoming Morning with Too Early

    As infants and toddlers, all my kids were night owls. They stayed up late checking out the world around them and then slept in each morning.

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    A NeuroSpicy Spiritual Practice for Managing Medical Visits

    Children may find medical, dental, and therapy visits stressful for many different reasons. They could be afraid of unknown and potentially uncomfortable procedures.

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  • A NeuroSpicy Spiritual Practice for Visit Anxiety

    For some neurodivergent children, not knowing what to expect when visiting others outside the family home can be extremely distressing.

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    Celebrating May Day with Have You Ever Seen a Flower?

    As a child, my siblings and I would mark May Day by gathering dandelions and other wildflowers into green plastic strawberry baskets salvaged from the trash and dropping them on neighbors’ doorsteps with a handwritten greeting.

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  • A NeuroSpicy Stimming Spiritual Practice

    Many neurodiverse children use a practice called ‘stimming’ (self-stimulating through repetitive actions or sounds) to help them self-regulate. Some commonly observed stims are vocalizations (words or sounds),

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    Talking with Kids about the Pope’s Death

    The death of Pope Francis is a big deal, with news services replaying his Easter Sunday ride around St.

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