The Complex Flavour of Children’s Spirituality in Flanders: Fostering an Open Catholic Spirituality

2013 ◽  
pp. 59-71
Keyword(s):  
Children's Spirituality

Peran Pendidikan Agama Kristen dalam Keluarga di Era Digital terhadap Pembentukan Spiritualitas dan Moralitas Anak

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-91
Author(s):  
Fredik Melkias Boiliu ◽  
Meyva Polii
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Children's Spirituality ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Family ◽  
Online Activities ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Negative Impacts

This article discusses the role of Christian religious education in families in the digital era to improve children's spirituality and morality. The digital era is an era where everything is instantaneous and fast. In this era, all human activities are carried out online, be it work activities, education and also worship. These online activities have both positive and negative impacts. By using a descriptive-analytical method,in this paper the author discusses the negative impact of online activities on children's spirituality and morality. Spirituas and morality are the main and foremost things for children's lives or things that are very basic for children. Therefore, parents have a very important role in the family to shape the spiritual and moral of the child because good or bad spiritual and moral children depend on the role of parents in the family. In the family, parents must play their role as the first and foremost role in improving children's spirituality and morality through the role of parents as teachers, educators, mentoring, motivators, and role models.

The Spiritual Influence of Grandparents

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 346-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Catterton Allen ◽  
Heidi Schultz Oschwald
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
Children's Spirituality ◽  
Qualitative Dissertation ◽  
New Generation

Though grandparents hope to influence the new generation, to pass on their values, understanding, wisdom, and faith, little empirical evidence exists that reveals if (or how) grandparents actually influence their grandchildren spiritually. To investigate this issue, the authors revisit the raw data from Allen's 2002 qualitative dissertation on children's spirituality and analyze what the 40 children in the field research said about their grandparents. The statements of these children as well as data from other empirical studies offer strong support for the idea that grandparents nurture their grandchildren's relationship with God through their frequent prayers, their stories, their clear example, their quiet witness, their availability, and especially their ability to lavish love, grace, and mercy on grandchildren in deep need of such gifts.

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