All Faith at home articles – Page 9
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Faith at homeMention porn to teens in church
Rachel Gardner spoke with Maria Rodrigues about a new resource for parents to equip them to talk about porn and sexting with their teens. www.youthscape.co.uk
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Faith at homeTeach us to pray
Bear Grylls recently told a newspaper about the importance he puts on praying with his three sons. We all know how vital it is to get children and young people praying, but how do we start? What are some simple ideas any of us can do? Prayer Spaces in Schools’ Phil Togwell has some ideas…
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Faith at homeA story for home: The woman and the girl
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or as part of a God-time during your day. Enjoy pulling the different faces and making the sound effects together. You could also use this story during a children’s session, using the actions as they are written here, with everyone sitting down, or making the actions bigger, standing and / or walking around the room as you do them.
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Faith at homeForming faith rituals: Rituals at home
How do you view rituals? Religious, solemn, and prescribed? If so, they don’t sound very easy or exciting to use with our families at home! However, for me, at its heart, a ritual is a series of actions or behaviours which are done regularly – it’s something which is repeated. And it’s this repetition which allows us to go deeper.
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Faith at homePushy parenting
Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield recently suggested that parents in the North of England should become ‘pushier’ in order to help their teenagers get better exam results. The Commissioner’s Growing up North research found that school leavers from London and the South-East are more likely to go to competitive universities than those in the North. Care for the Family’s Katharine Hill responds:
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Faith at homeForming faith rituals: Shabbat
We’ve been celebrating Shabbat as a family each Friday for the past nine years. We love it, and couldn’t imagine our week without it. If you’ve not come across Shabbat, it’s a Jewish ritual, a Friday night meal with prayers and blessings. Our two children, aged 4 and 5, join in with the songs, the actions and some of the Bible verses we say. We’ve shared it with lots of different people, Christian and otherwise, and we’ve adapted it as we’ve gone along to keep it accessible and relevant to everyone present.
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Faith at homeA story for home: Elijah meets with God
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or part of a God-time during your day. Enjoy pulling the different faces and making the sound effects together. You could also use this story during a children’s session, using the actions as they are written here, with everyone sitting down, or making the actions bigger, standing and / or walking around the room as you do them.
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Faith at homeBuilding Resilience: Getting through the day
Being a child or young person is tough. Working with and parenting children and young people is tough. Liz edge asks, how do we build resilience in our young people, and in ourselves?
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Faith at homePassing on a life of prayer
Encouraging faith to develop at home can be a tricky experience. Victoria Beech, gives us some pointers to explore praying as a family.
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Faith at homePassing on the faith
Theos, a leading Christian think tank, has released some significant research about the hows and whys of parents passing on faith to their children.
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Faith at home introduction
Welcome to Faith at home, a brand new resource for those seeking to develop children’s faith... at home. We know that seeking to raise the next generation of Jesus-followers isn’t easy, but hopefully the ideas and stories inside these pages can help us all along the way.
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Faith at homeCraft: Zacchaeus
The story of Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1—10) is rich with meaning for children and these craft ideas should give them space to process their thoughts about this story.
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Faith at homeHow to keep the faith when your children don't
Parenting is the life-changing minefield of teaching someone else everything you know. Getting through big milestones like learning to talk, teething, chickenpox, exams, cut knees, and broken hearts.
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Faith at homeYour children are watching porn
What is porn? The answer you give to that question will undoubtedly be based on your own experiences with pornographic content.
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Faith at homePeriods of change
Change is a constant part of our lives - new school, new church, new baby, new step-parent, new church group, even new shoes! This autumn, we moved house from the country farm house where my children were born to a house on a street in a villagey-suburb. I knew it would be a big change for us all, and especially for the children who hadn’t really chosen the change, which makes things harder. I wanted to find ways to help make it as smooth as possible, but when I searched for things to help our family transition well, I found surprisingly few resources. I’m not a transition expert, but I thought it might be helpful to share some of the things I found and some I used to help us make this big move. I hope they inspire you that change can be done well and can be faith enhancing.
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A story for home: Jesus calls his disciples
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or as part of a God-time during your day. Try to teach the actions ahead of time. It is fun to see if the children can guess the story based on the actions, and it rehearses the story before you tell it.
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Faith at homeA children’s worker, a parent and a teacher walk into a bar…
Well, strictly speaking it was an upper room in a church, but no good joke ever involved people walking into a church room. We’re all aware that the forming of faith within children isn’t something that any of us can do alone, so we got a few different stakeholders – parents, a teacher and a children’s worker – together to share their insights and suggest how they can best work together
