Archive for the 'Values' Category

Faith Development - Understanding the development phases

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Recently, I read a great article by Mark Oestreicher discussing the aspects of faith development in preteens and how to handle doubts concerning faith. In his article, Mark quoted from the work of Psychologist Stephen Glenn who developed a human development timeline. This timeline identified six phases that children pass through as they [...]

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Volunteering: Five ways to practice compassion

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Volunteering in my opinion is compassion with hands and feet. Volunteering is one avenue to help teach your kid the value of compassion and selflessness. This tends to go against the mainstream idea of “Me first!” I remember one time around Christmas time, there were several elderly ladies who lived in the area [...]

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