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Celebrating Native American Heritage

When I was growing up, November was a month filled with images of ‘pilgrims’ and ‘Indians’ sharing a…

Celebrating Self-Discovery

As the regular school year draws to a close, many extracurricular programs also pause for the summer. Teachers and…

Cueing Spiritual Language

When my son was learning about lower case letters, he got into an argument with his preschool teacher about the letter…

Valentine Spirituality

Every year, my kids’ school does a Valentine fundraiser. Parents and grandparents can purchase pink and red…

Managing Fears with Migration

When my daughter was little, she watched a movie where the mother died. Afterward, she would become upset every time…

Practicing Resilience & Resistance on Juneteenth

As a seven year old, my eldest energetically campaigned for a Lt. Governor candidate in our home state. When asked by a…

Coloring as a Mindfulness Practice

As children return to in-person gatherings, they may feel anxious and stressed. An art-based mindfulness practice can…

Practicing Kindness

Kindness is more than just a feeling. It’s a way of being in the world that requires paying close attention to other…

Encouraging Kids to Follow in MLK’s Footsteps

This year (2025), the U.S. presidential inauguration and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day both fall on Monday, January 20.…

Gender and Sexual Diversity Inclusion

My daughter returned from her third grade ‘Meet the Teacher’ with news she’d heard through friends: a boy in her…

Ways to Check Understanding

A common way to check whether children have understood something is to give a test. But even in schools, teachers are…

Helping Children Appreciate Diversity

Cleaning out my daughter’s closet, I found a shadow box she constructed in 1st grade. She and a friend set out to…

How Social Media Works

When my friend’s children want to find a new book to read, they turn to TikTok. The app lets them search for videos…

Spiritual ‘projects’ with Operation Sisterhood

Bo’s summer plans completely change when her mother moves into a Harlem brownstone with her fiance and another…

Guided Play

When it comes to educating young children, we’ve all heard that play is an important part of learning. And yet, when…

Talking about Natural Disasters with Kids

Since Hurricane Helene made landfall last week, more than 190 people have been confirmed dead and hundreds more remain…

Reimagining Spiritual Education

Most of the time, we think of the global pandemic as a terrible time for children and learning. School closures, fights…

Guided Meditation: Climate Change

My nephew is a science nerd. He collects facts about climate change and uses them to convince other family members to…

Taylor Swift Spirituality

With her latest album sweeping the top 10 slots on Billboard’s Top 100 - a first for any artist - Taylor Swift is…

Children’s Spiritual Questions

“Mommy, why did Jennifer* get cancer?” This probing question from my nine year old daughter caught me off guard.…

When Kids See Life as a Quest

My son jumped excitedly from foot to foot as he waited impatiently for the clock to strike midnight. Our local…

Guiding Questions for Pandemic Programming

Just when we thought it was safe to relax a little, the Omicron variant has swooped in and put pandemic debates in the…

Supporting Healthy Media Use

A mom I know is struggling with the amount of time her 7 and 10 year olds are online. They spend their school day in…

Social Emotional Learning at Home

My second child would become easily overwhelmed as a toddler. If we were shopping at the mall, she would start crying…

Family Hospitality

“Look at what I made,” says my son, holding up to me his newest drawing. I respond, “Just one more second,…

Exploring Ellen Outside the Lines

In their latest book, author A.J. Sass creates a neurodivergent main character (Ellen) who is negotiating changes in…

Using Landscape Images in Spiritual Reflection

My youngest child loves Van Gogh’s Starry Night. In fifth grade, he picked out a t-shirt that had Albert Einstein’s…

Exploring Personal Connections with Despicable Me 4

My family went on vacation with friends a few years ago. It was fun but also complicated to figure out how to live…

Digital Spirituality with Young Children

A friend posts a snapshot of her three year old daughter on social media. Sonia* has her head bent over her mom’s…

Wonder Walls

Asking “why?” is stereotypical behavior for two-year-olds. Parents and caregivers lament the seemingly incessant…

Living Black History Projects

It’s Black History Month once again in the U.S., when teachers and group leaders plan lessons celebrating African…

Durable Spiritual Learning

Recently, I watched several young children explore finger labyrinths for the first time. Most would race to see how…

Using Story Circles to Build Empathy

Sorting through a box of old school papers, I found a story one of my children wrote in 2nd grade. Her teacher had…

Wonder Wagons

A blue spruce tree in my yard has grown too big and I planned to trim it back. But when I approached it with my…

Child-Led Spiritual Learning

As a child, I often was bored in school even though I loved to learn. I would quickly tune out adult monologues and rip…

Exploring Emotion with Crying is Like the Rain

Children’s feelings can shift and change rapidly. One minute a toddler is happily playing and the next they’re…

Celebrating Black History Month in an Anti-DEI Society

Three of the Executive Orders signed by the President on Inauguration Day roll back Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion…

Exploring Spirituality with How to Train Your Dragon

My children loved the previous How to Train Your Dragon movies and shows. They were curious whether the live action…

Visible Spiritual Thinking

My kids used to love puzzles that involved figuring out an unknown object from a close-up photo. They developed a set…

Connecting with Nature through Apple and Magnolia

One summer, my kids and I planted a small garden. While our cucumbers and zucchini did well, our tomato plants…

Observing Earth Day as a Family

Earth Day (April 22) marks more than 50 years of organized global attention to the environment. It officially falls on…

Helping Children Explore Rules

No running in the house. Look both ways before crossing the street. Treat others with respect. These common family…

Recording Lessons

When the pandemic shut down in-person gatherings, many of us pivoted to online programs. Some loved working with…

Creating a Sacred Healing Space

The last two years have been incredibly difficult. Children, as well as adults, have struggled to find spiritual…

Developing Trust

When it comes to deciding what information about spirituality to trust and what to doubt, children acquire useful…

Cultivating Intellectual Humility

“Saying something doesn’t make it so.” My grandmother would issue this reminder whenever my siblings or I would…

Exploring Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 with Kids

Marvel’s newest release, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3, focuses on Rocket’s origin story as Groot, Mantis, Drax,…

Exploring Cicada Symphony with Kids

Every year, cicadas awaken from a long dormant period and dig their way out of the ground. The noisy clicking of the…

How Guesswork Helps Kids Learn

As I sit on the floor with a group of five and six year olds, I ask, “What do you think it means to practice…

Resolve to Learn Together

People of all ages make personal New Year’s resolutions. Adults resolve to be more patient, develop an exercise…

Building a Strong Image of Children

Sometimes when we talk about children, we focus on what kids can’t do: they can’t walk yet, or they can’t reach…

Being Antiracist with Kids

As a white researcher and teacher, I know I am susceptible to implicit bias. Even though I am committed to antiracism,…

Sit Spots

Now that school is back in session, children have much less time to spend outdoors. Pressure to prepare kids for…

Practicing Presence

Learning to be attentive to the spiritual aspects of life takes time and practice. From the time we are preschoolers,…

Reexamining Humility as a Spiritual Virtue

Growing up, I was frequently told that good girls should be humble. I was expected to hide my intelligence and avoid…

Promoting Restorative Justice

My son’s Montessori school had a ‘peace table’ where children could go to work out disagreements. On it were a…

Shifting Bad Habits to Good Practices

When I was a child, I bit my nails. It was a reflexive action whenever I felt stressed or anxious. I don’t really…

Exploring Bad Days with Everything Will Be OK

Some days are just yucky. Things happen that children can’t control and don’t like. They might be little things,…

Exploring Diversity & Community with Luli and the Language of Tea

Children from several nations gather in a playroom while their parents learn English as a Second Language next door.…

Practicing Calm

When my kids were little, getting everyone out of the house on time without tears or tantrums was a daily challenge.…

Santa Spirituality

For many families, Christmas is - in whole or in part - a cultural rather than a religious holiday. And at the center…

Community-Building with Our Pool

Growing up in Oklahoma and Texas, summers were hot. My siblings and I loved nothing more than to head to our local…

Exploring Compassion with A Mystery in the Forest

As children, my next youngest sibling and I loved to ride our bikes together. Our six-year-old brother would beg to go…

Exploring Spiritual Concepts through Movement

For more than a century, developmentalists assumed that children were unable to understand spiritual and religious…

Helping Young Children Connect Actions with Consequences

As preschoolers, my kids love playing with story blocks. Our set consisted of wooden tiles depicting various…

Critical Race Theory

When the University of North Carolina declined to tenure Nikole Hannah-Jones after recruiting her for a chair in…

Spiritual Reflection with Turning Red

Pixar’s newest release is a coming-of-age story about a Chinese Canadian girl accepting both her changing body and…

Spiritual Themes in The Door of No Return

Lessons about slavery in the United States typically begin with life on a plantation in the American South. This…

Exploring the Gift of Rain with Sidney the Lonely Cloud

Like generations of children before them, my kids would chant, “Rain, rain, go away,” whenever raindrops threatened…

Kindness Projects

My children's elementary school had a student committee that planned service projects for every grade. Kids from…

Kids, Ramadan & Food Insecurity

As the war between Israel and Palestine continues, many Palestinian parents struggle to feed their families. Violence…

Cooking Together as a Spiritual Practice

Children (and adults) often think first about food when they hear the word ‘Thanksgiving’. Turkey roasted,…

Appreciating Differences with The Truth About Dragons

In times of public divisiveness, children often turn to their families to decide how to think about differences. They…

Spiritual Storytelling with The Last Cuentista

For a book lover like me, one bedtime story often turned into two or three as I tucked my young children in. But I…

Exploring Difference with Wicked

When my family took our seats to watch the movie version of Wicked, we were expecting an upbeat musical with big dance…

Stimulating Spiritual Curiosity

When my children were younger, they regularly asked deep spiritual questions. Preschool drop-off conversations were…

Reflecting on Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

During quarantine, my family watched all of the Marvel movies in chronological order. It was one of the few series…

Gender & Toys

“He has a doll?!” my mother exclaimed, disapproval ringing in her words. She couldn’t believe I would let my…

Exploring Where Wonder Grows

My dad collected rocks his whole life. He particularly liked geodes: rocks that - when broken open - contained a hidden…

Celebrating Kwanzaa with Children

Seven candles stand tall in a kinara, ready for lighting. Their number and colors (red, black, and green) suggest this…

Exploring Values with The Good for Nothing Tree

I have a peach tree in my front yard. Some years, there are lots of peaches and we scramble to pick our share before…

Dreaming about Racial Equity with Kids

During the Black Lives Matter protests of 2021, my home city (Richmond, VA) struggled with the legacy of several…

Easter Around the World

Easter, like many holidays, is both a religious and cultural event. Some families focus on the Christian aspect, some…

Exploring ‘Freedom’ with Kids on Juneteenth

Every June 19th, the U.S. celebrates Juneteenth. It’s a national holiday commemorating the ending of slavery as a…

Exploring Captain America: Brave New World

One of the things that frustrates my younger children is living in their older siblings' shadows. Teachers and coaches…

Family Spiritual Rules

Family spiritual rules are a little like superhero codes of conduct: they outline our values and the activities we…

Spiritual Activities for Public Spaces

Children spend a lot of time in public spaces: shopping at grocery stores, waiting for buses, washing clothes at…

How Choice Questions Build Ethical Thinking

“Would you rather wear your blue sweater or your red one?” Questions like this are a parenting staple and kids are…

Becoming a More Reflective Leader

When I first started organizing an afterschool program for third and fourth graders, my supervisor’s advice to…

Exploring The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess

Fairy tales can play a powerful role in children’s lives. Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen has morphed into…

Movement Meditation: Wonder

Children learn pretty quickly that there are often right answers and wrong answers to the questions adults ask. Those…

Movement Meditation: Justice

Children long to make a difference in the world around them. From their earnest commitment to fairness as preschoolers…

Passover Explorations

Looking through photos, I found several of my family celebrating Passover with friends who are Jewish. They would…

Asking Why with Transformers One

‘Why?’ is one of my children’s favorite questions. When they were little, they asked, “Why is the sky blue?”…

Talking with Kids about the Chiefs Parade Shooting

Nearly a million people were celebrating the Kansas City Chiefs and their Super Bowl win when shots rang out, killing…

Exploring Spiritual Traditions through Objects

One of my grown daughters will only drink grape juice if she has bread to dip in it. It’s a throwback to her…

Unbundled Spirituality

Once upon a time, families turned almost exclusively to religious congregations to meet their spiritual needs. They…

Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Reading books about Martin Luther King, Jr. was more than an annual event when my children were young. We had several,…

Celebrating AANHPI Heritage Month

Just a few weeks after cherry blossoms peak in the U.S. capital, Americans begin a month-long celebration of Asian…

Celebrating Black History Year-Round

With the calendar shift from February to March, we’ve gone from remembering Black history to lifting up women and…

Holiday Lights Scavenger Hunt

I love holiday lights! Strings of colored bulbs wrapped around trees, icicle lights hanging from rooftops and fences, a…

Exploring People Are Wild with Children

“Do they bite?” asked Marcus* when we spotted a family of mule deer during a camping trip. Our group was excited…

Going on a Rainforest Adventure with Forest

Brendan Kearney’s Forest is part of a series that chronicles the adventures of fisher Finn and his dog, Skip. In this…

Exploring Every Little Kindness with Kids

Sometimes a story doesn’t need words to be powerful. That’s the case with Marta Bartolj’s Every Little Kindness,…

Making Kindness a Goal

My social media feeds have been flooded with ‘first day of school’ photos. Children stand holding signs proclaiming…

Practicing Hopefulness

Hopefulness is more than just a spiritual virtue and positive emotional state. Psychologists also view it as a…

Halloween Story Circles

“Oooh…the skeletons' bones clattered in the dark night as they rose from the graveyard and began to march. The…

Centering Guide

The world can be a noisy place. From the sounds of traffic in the streets, neighbors through apartment walls, Zoom…

Spiritual Story Books

My children love to read. From a young age, they knew that I would rarely deny their request to buy a book that caught…

Movement-Enhanced Learning

Several years ago, I was leading a holiday workshop and more kids than I expected showed up. There weren’t enough…

Replacing Hurtful Words with Kindness

“Losers! Losers!” shouted a kid on the opposing soccer team. My fifth grader and her teammates were headed to the…

Emoji Spirituality

Kids love emojis. As fun visual substitutes for words, they help children share how they’re feeling and communicate…

Exploring Spirituality with The Little Mermaid

Children have long loved Ariel, the star of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, because of her determination to live her…

Exploring Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

The new Spider-Man movie, Across the Spider-Verse, is visually stunning, with different graphics for each universe. The…

Movement Meditation: Connection

Movements can be powerful teachers. Our bodies remember and repeat motions associated with specific practices, such as…

Movement Meditation: Empowerment

Being a small person in a big world can be overwhelming at times. Children may feel overshadowed by the adults around…

Movement Meditation: Awareness

Being aware of one’s surroundings can be an important safety practice. We teach children to pay attention when…

Movement Meditation: Empathy

Children don’t always get along. Like adults, they get angry with siblings and friends. They feel resentment and…

Making Religious Meaning with Journey to Bethlehem

During the month of December, many Christian families retell the biblical Christmas story as part of their holiday…

Finding Comfort in I Am Not Afraid

Bedtime fears are a common childhood experience. Monsters under the bed or in the closet. Strange noises and shadows.…

Managing Holiday Emotions

“But mom,” wailed my daughter, “I wanted to put the glitter stars on the tree.” She collapses onto the sofa and…

Teaching Young Children to Journal

As preschoolers, my children loved the ‘books’ their teachers created for them to use. They were simple…

Different Kinds of Curiosity

My eldest child likes to figure out how things work. When she was three, she shocked our neighbor by explaining the…

Gay Pride Spirituality

It’s Gay Pride Month, and families of all sorts are celebrating diversity. Colorful rainbow flags attract…

Getting to Know Children Better

When marketers want to learn about people, they collect data about them. They then use that information to improve how…

Making Belonging a Priority

Three weeks after my middle child started third grade, she was so anxious and upset that she couldn’t concentrate on…

Helping Kids Feel Important

“You never listen to me!” complained my nine-year-old. She was trying to tell me about the antics of some of the…

Connecting with A River of Dust

Scientists who study the environment made an amazing discovery in the 1960s: the health of the Amazon forests depend in…

Talking with Kids about the Derek Chauvin Verdict

My family was doing our regular post-school, pre-dinner thing when the radio paused its scheduled programming to…

Promoting Children’s Voices through ‘Grand Conversations’

One of my pet peeves with curricula for children’s programs is how teacher-directed most of the activities are. The…

How Curiosity Enhances Relationships

My daughter and her best friend met in 2nd grade. Their first weeks together were spent asking each other questions:…

Talking about the Election with Kids

My two older children were just 6 and 3 when their dad and I signed on as volunteers with a major election campaign.…

Building Self-Understanding with Self-Talk

When she was three, my middle daughter loved to play dolls with her friends. They would reenact various everyday…

Creating a Peaceful World with A Very Big Problem

Most cultures and religious traditions tell stories that try to make sense out of how the world began and why people…

Inward & Outward Spirituality

With many sports, after-school activities, clubs, service projects, and in some cases, in-person school canceled,…

Reading Fauja Singh Keeps Going

Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on the 3rd Monday in January reminds us that society needs strong leaders:…

Exploring For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World

Like many parents, Michael W. Waters looked at his newborn son and thought him the most beautiful baby on earth. He…

Helping Children Set Meaningful Goals

Purpose is an important aspect of a healthy spiritual life. Children have hopes and dreams. They want to make a…

Exploring Values through Cultural ‘Holidays’

Pop up a digital calendar and you’ll likely see a host of cultural ‘holidays’ created to encourage local,…

Celebrating Democracy

As preschoolers, my kids loved participating in our community Fourth of July festival. They would decorate their…

Innovation Hubs

We are seeking individuals and organizations that want to explore new ways of nurturing children’s spirituality based…

A Lament How-To

When life gets tough, a spiritual practice that deals with anxiety can make the difference between a whiny child and…

Exploring Life & Death with Soul

Pixar movies are beloved by both children and adults for their creative stories, well-developed characters, and…

Public Learning

The common idea that spirituality is a private matter creates a dilemma for organizations that partner with families…

Imagining a Better World with Wish

“Why do bad things happen?” asks my son. That question is hard enough to answer, but he doesn’t stop there. He…

Holiday ‘Marker Talks’

Many of the children I teach come from households that celebrate multiple religious and cultural holidays. Others have…

Wondering with Wonder Walkers

Research suggests that curiosity is both an innate human trait and a learned skill. The desire to learn more about our…

Create a Virtual Protest

Even as places open for in-person experiences, virtual engagements can continue to be part of children’s and…

Decision Matrix

Learning to make good decisions is an essential spiritual skill. Becoming a self-reflective person requires children to…

Welcoming Afghan Refugees

Many of the refugees airlifted to the U.S. out of Afghanistan last month are currently housed at Fort Lee in Virginia,…

Strengthening Connections

“I forgot my mask” yelled my daughter as she ran home from the bus stop, then back out again, mask in hand. Going…

Avoiding Seductive Details

Drawing children into learning activities can sometimes feel like Sisyphus rolling an immense boulder uphill. Just when…

How Gratitude Builds Community

We hear a lot about supply chain ‘issues’ right now. Store shelves are emptier than in pre-pandemic days. Online…

Children, Community Science & Climate Change

Earlier this month, the Pacific Ocean made news because it is shrinking faster than scientists expected. One reason…

Using Books as Spiritual Mirrors & Windows

As a preschooler, my daughter loved Don and Audrey Wood’s The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big…

Talking about Ukraine with I Hate Borsch

Earlier this month, UNESCO added borsch, the national soup of Ukraine, to its list of endangered cultural heritage…

Books for Earth Day

Americans have celebrated Earth Day since 1970, with other nations joining in beginning in 1990. The theme for 2023 is…

Exploring Elemental with Kids

A few days ago, one of my children wanted breakfast for dinner, while another preferred Indian. The first argued that…

Seeing Differences through Eyes that Speak to the Stars

Children are often curious about differences. They wonder why someone has red hair instead of brown like them, or…

The Science of Gratitude

“Tank you” said my daughter’s two year old friend as I passed out cookies to everyone in our neighborhood…

How Music Helps Kids Connect with Others

We are a music-loving family. All three children eagerly participated in recorder lessons in elementary school and one…

When Children Shoot Children

A 14-year-old Georgia teen brought a gun to school yesterday, killing two other students and two teachers. Eleven other…

Letting Go of the ‘Main Point’

It’s often the first thing a teacher or group facilitator looks for in a lesson plan: a line near the top that…

Examining Our Conscience

Many cultural and religious traditions have some kind of spiritual practice that involves reflecting on one’s…

Public Learning Reflective Process

For teachers and program facilitators who want to be reflective practitioners, Mills College School of Education…

Picture Books about Refugees

With stories about refugees and immigrants frequently in the news, children are certain to wonder about why they’ve…

Yoga with Children

I keep returning to yoga practice in my adult life. It provides me with a space to be present in my body and helps me…

Reading The Proudest Blue

Wearing hijab is a spiritual statement for Muslim girls and women. It is a sign of faith and a practice of…

Building Rapport

As Covid-19 transmission risks soar again, concerns about the effects of masking and social distancing on relationships…

Talking with Kids about the Reversal of Roe v. Wade

Since the Supreme Court decision last month striking down Roe v. Wade, the news is full of stories about what the…

Sharing the ‘Hard Parts’ of the Christian Easter Story

As I was recounting the events of the Christian Holy Week with a group of children, Jess* waved her hand wildly in the…

National Coming Out Day

My sister was 18 when she came out. It was a chaotic time in my family of origin, with lots of tears, threats of…

Talking about the Israel/Palestine Conflict with Children

After the 9/11 terrorist attack, my four year old asked, “Mommy, were there children on those planes?” I responded…

Telling Your Child You’re Seriously Ill

After weeks of endless (and often unkind) speculation, we now know: Princess Kate has cancer. She explains that she and…

How Nature Journals Increase Kids’ Well-Being

Last week, I saw a young child watching a bumble bee move from flower to flower on a large bush. “Shhh,” she told…

Activating Social-Emotional Learning Skills

The beginning of a new school year is marked with excitement and anxiety. It’s a transition point, which requires…

Helping Kids Learn Civility

“I hate them!” “That idea is so stupid!” “Who do they think they are, saying things like that?!” In a…

Supporting Families

We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation Because we know our inaction and inertia will be the…

Talking about Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb

Forming an identity is a complicated task. The arts provide space to create and play with different identities.…

Explaining Gun Violence

Mass shootings have become commonplace in the U.S. No matter how a parent feels about gun control, the thought of…

Young Children and Connectedness

The other day, my tween son and I were talking and laughing as we sorted through piles of nursery artwork I have stored…

Spiritual Reminiscing

Parents talk with young children about the past a lot. We remind them of the last time they saw their cousins. We…

Using Virtual Rooms to Strengthen Community

Over the past year, teachers, therapists, librarians, and others have created virtual rooms with bitmoji to engage…

Spiritual Mirrors, Windows & Doors

“But mom,” my eldest complained, “why do I have to go to church school? They never talk about anything…

Pandemic Reflection Activities

As many places lift pandemic restrictions, children need ways to look back over the past 15 months and reflect on their…

Collective Spiritual Conversations

Often our interactions with children center around questions like “What did you learn? Or “How did that happen?”…

Telling Personal Stories

Hearing others’ stories and telling one’s own is a powerful way for children to connect spiritually. Personal…

Spiritual Counseling

For many children, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a time of trauma, grief, and loss. Even if children have come through…

Why Children Won’t Ask for Help

“Go ask your teacher for help,” I told my daughter again. For a whole grading period, she had been struggling with…

Spiritual Brain Power

When my eldest child was three, she shocked our neighbor by explaining in detail how a refrigerator works. Amber loved…

Spiritual Reflection with Encanto

Encanto, Disney’s newest animated feature, tells the story of an extraordinary family. Once upon a time, Abuela…

Books Celebrating Black Identity

Children’s spiritual well-being depends, in part, on strong self-esteem. They need to see themselves as individuals…

Chapter Book Spirituality with Preschoolers

When my children were babies, I would read aloud from whatever book I had at hand to sooth them when they were fussy.…

Mindful Nature Walks

I do a lot of walking. I sometimes walk from my house to my office two blocks away. I pace while talking on the phone…

Reading A Duet for Home

What can children do about a situation that seems unfair or unjust? How can they be allies? These are two of the…

Project-Based Spirituality

A few years ago, my children’s school decided to sponsor two Habitat for Humanity home builds. The actual…

Taking Flight with The Year We Learned to Fly

Cultural and spiritual heritages are often passed on to new generations through stories and teachings by elders.…

Exploring Magic Candies with Children

Imagine a bag of candies with the power to bring your sofa to life and give voice to falling leaves. Would you want to…

3 Kinds of Spiritual Engagement

A couple of weeks ago, I observed a group of children in a local day camp program. The leader asked them to identify…

Preparing Preschoolers for Spiritual Learning

Working with preschoolers can be a blast! Many are full of curiosity about everything and eager to explore. Even the…

Talking about the Queen’s Funeral & Rituals after Death

Less than 24 hours after Queen Elizabeth’s death, media outlets were carrying articles about ‘what to expect’ as…

Creating A Culture Of Caring

In 3rd and 4th grade, I participated in an afterschool Kids Club organized by a neighborhood grandmother. I would walk…

Exploring Just Help! with Kids

How can children learn to build a better world? According to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the answer is in…

Why Kids Need Silence

As a parent, I used to be suspicious of silence. If I wasn’t hearing sounds from the next room, I would wonder what…

Helping Kids Have a ‘Happy’ New Year

“10…9…8…7...6…5…4…3…2…1…Happy New Year!” My family celebrated the start of 2023 with sparkling…

Boosting Resilience with a ‘Helping Hand’

My kindergartener woke in the middle of the night sobbing. We had just learned earlier that her friend’s mom had been…

Spiritual Exploration with the Webb Telescope

A friend's 5 year old daughter recently visited our local science museum, where she was mesmerized by the Webb…

Exploring Gods & Grief with Thor: Love and Thunder

My family rarely misses a Marvel movie, and the new Thor: Love and Thunder is no exception. In his typical oblivious…

Talking about the Nashville School Shooting

Another school shooting, this time in Nashville. Seven people dead (including the shooter) and many more traumatized…

Talking about Lockdown Drills with One Thursday Afternoon

Lockdown (Active Shooter) Drills have become a staple of children’s lives. Schools and organizations build them into…

Remembering Wars & Warriors with Children

“I found it mom, I found it!” called my daughter. ‘It’ was her great-uncle’s name on the Vietnam Veterans…

Affirming Gender Diversity

When my children were young, we dressed them in a rainbow of hues. Some people found this frustrating because they…

Exploring Change with Where is Home, Daddy Bear?

My family moved when I was a child. For the first 6 months, I refused to call the new house ‘home’. I did not want…

Encouraging Creative Thinking

While hanging out with a babysitter one evening, my children decided to create their own tabletop game. They drew a…

Fridge Spirituality

My refrigerator is covered in activity schedules, a recycling calendar, family photos, and children’s art. Anyone…

When Children Interrupt

Interruptions are an expected issue when working with children. Sometimes they want to tell us about their new pet or…

How Uncertainty Encourages Wonder

My youngest child really disliked surprises when he was a preschooler. He wanted everything to go as expected. If he…

Learning about Self & Others with The Garfield Movie

We often wonder what pets are thinking and feeling, especially when they do something that seems odd or silly. A cat…

Pathways to Wonder & Awe

The first time I saw flying fish, I was overcome with amazement. They looked like silvery stars twinkling in the waves…

Exploring Identity with Inside Out 2

The transition from childhood to adolescence brings a host of new emotions to the fore: anxiety, envy, embarrassment,…

Encouraging Future-Mindedness

“I’m going to be a programmer when I grow up,” said my 10-year-old daughter. She had just checked out several…

Productive Struggle

My middle daughter has a form of dyslexia in which her brain doesn’t easily associate how a letter looks with the…

Children & Awe

At two and a half, my eldest child was obsessed with garbage trucks. She loved the sounds they made, the way they…

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. Peter’s…

Experiencing Gratitude

“Thanks, mom!” Every time one of my kids says those words, my heart does a happy dance. Not only am I pleased that…

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Hi! We’re so glad you’re here. At Real Kids Real Faith, raising kids can overwhelm us, but it also makes us belly…

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Real Kids, Real Faith is looking for scholars and researchers who are interested in bringing their expertise in fields…

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