Bringing up children

SUNDAY’S CHILD AND DEATH, Part 1

12 August 2008

Like Timmy's mother, many adults often find that explaining the death of a relative or friend to children is not an easy thing to do. It's difficult to know what to say and how to say it so ...

Children and Television

21 July 2008

Novice Joseph

Mythological television characters replace parents, relatives, the Saints, and Christ as role models. A normal American fourteen-year-old girl talks with her mother (in terms of actually discussing a ...

On Giving Children the Sense of the Beautiful

19 April 2007

What models of outward beauty can parents then provide for their children today, as alternatives and antidotes to the contemporary cult of ugliness?

Parents need to love the child…

31 March 2007

Anastasia Donets

So, first of all, parents need to cultivate this quality of dignity and self-respect in themselves. And if they encourage this in their children, if they set the example, the children will become ...

The Upbringing of Children

30 May 2006

Bishop Alexander (Mileant)

The Orthodox church always regarded the family as the main source of the Christian enlightenment of children. The Apostles used to call the family the "domestic church" and taught spouses ...

Raising Children

23 August 2005

Bishop Alexander (Mileant)

When the child is yet young, begin to train him/her in sympathy and consideration for others and in unselfishness. By these means he/she will grow up to understand that the material things of this ...

Children in Church

18 May 2005

Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky

Every Christian mother considers it one of her primary obligations to teach her child prayer as soon as his consciousness begins to awaken - prayer that is simple and easy for him to understand. His ...

Teaching Our Children to Pray

15 April 2005

When the Road to Emmaus staff first decided to talk to an Orthodox mother about children and prayer we pictured an experienced woman with grown-up children and the leisure for a long interview. After ...

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News

26 May

Former Pope of Rome in His Book Criticizes New Trends in Catholicism - Metropolitan Hilarion

Reception Marking His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s Name Day Held in Moscow

25 May

His Holiness Patriarch Irenaeus of Serbia: Anyone who helps Ukrainian schismatics is an enemy of Orthodox Slavic nations and the whole Orthodox world

Catholic Priests Introduce the Street Counseling with Atheists

24 May

The Systematic Persecution of Christians is an International Tragedy

23 May

The President of Moldova Condemned the Actions of the Police that Prevented People from Protesting against the LGBT March

Shrine in Turkey Uncovered as Tomb of Ancient Greek Boxer

22 May

Sexual Minorities Hold Their First Successful Parade in Chisinau

The Number of Children Affected in Ukraine by Spraying Aerosol, Increased to 36

21 May

V. Legoyda Commented on the Attack on Members of the Orthodox Church in Grozny

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