Bringing up children

Children and Prayer

20 October 2008

"I wish, children, to talk to you about prayer. Do you know how to train yourself to pray? First, you must pray just a little, but as often as possible. Prayer is like a spark: in time it can ...

Junk food for the soul

16 October 2008

Television is an almost precise spiritual equivalent of junk food. The entire content of its programming is unedifying, un-nourishing, opposed to sound mental and emotional health, and filled with ...

An Orthodox View on Child Abuse

08 October 2008

Even more widespread in our society is the emotional abandonment of our children. Children are not "wanted", they are a "burden," it is not "fashionable" to have ...

“Blessed Are the Pure in Heart for They Shall See God”

18 September 2008

Parents are for the child the first door to the Kingdom of God. By the way the parents live a godly life, they provide the first example of God’s love and care. Saint Theophan the Recluse (The Path ...

SUNDAY’S CHILD AND DEATH, Part 2

15 August 2008

Donna Bobin

In Part I of this article, we looked at some ways that both meanings of death - the physical and the religious meanings - could be presented to children. That discussion, however, centered around ...

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 ...

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