Article April 14, 1997 Issue

Nurturing spirituality in children

by Kim Shippey

Last month a tenth-anniversary Family Forum conference was held at Boston University. It was sponsored by Parents' Plus, Inc., the umbrella organization for Parents' Papers across the United States. The featured symposium was on nurturing spirituality in children. The moderator was Lester Strong, a news reporter with television station WHDH in Boston, and the panel, representing six different faiths, brought to the discussion wide experience as parents and religious educators. The symposium opened with a videotape in which children of different faiths spontaneously shared their thoughts on the role God plays in their lives. Here's just a sampling:

• God made life, and if you don't learn about God you can't learn about life.

• God is someone who cares for us, someone who's gentle and kind, and can be trusted. I know His voice just by the way He talks to me.

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