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Eye on the world: Caring for children
In an editorial titled “Quality child care: what’s at stake,” The Christian Science Monitor notes that children “... need to be nurtured, taught, encouraged, and corrected. Parents need help so they can be the primary nurturers, teachers, encouragers, and correctors. That’s not just one family’s challenge. The quality of care children get today determines the quality of humanity’s future.”
More ideas on this subject:
From Mary Baker Eddy: “Is not the propagation of the human species a greater responsibility, a more solemn charge, than the culture of your garden or the raising of stock to increase your flocks and herds? Nothing unworthy of perpetuity should be transmitted to children” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 61 ).
In “Everyone’s part in parenting”: “It’s our privilege to pray to be a witness to God’s parenting, wherein divine Love gives the needed comfort. Our world needs this universal fatherhood and motherhood of God. We all have it, and we all can express it, anywhere, anytime.”
In “Father knows best”: “This was an occasion for me to prove the spiritual truth that God, as Father-Mother of His creation, was already caring for His beloved child.” And, “Being faithful in fulfilling family responsibilities needn’t be characterized by burden, guilt, or mistrust. If it is necessary to seek others’ help as caregivers, we can trust God, divine Mind, to lead us to the right course of action.”
In “Nurture children through seeing what the Father does”: “We’ll get a much bigger sense of what we can do, including a more effective job of nurturing children, when we first look to the Father, and then claim our capacity, as His image, to express Him.”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.