Children

Imparting Our Values

When my children were young, I remember how challenging it could be to share my Quaker values with them—and to…

A Sacred Walk: Parenting as a Way to God

Nothing has taught me more about the constancy of God’s presence and continuing creation than being a parent. From the…

Circle Time

I loved it when we would sit down to have Circle Time. First we would light the candles so we…

Children, War, Play, Violence (and Barbies)

When I started out on the adventure of parenting, I assumed that I was too smart and enlightened to have…

Follow the Child

I am an introspective kind of Friend who considers every decision carefully. It takes me days to mull over a…

Friendly Partners Program

When our Quaker children become teenagers our meetings lose touch with them. They seem to disappear into the abyss of…

Nancy Nye

Help a child wrestle with a complex idea, or advocate for a child’s right to education, an adequate diet, and…

Could Any Friend Really Understand what It Feels Like for a Quaker Mom to have a Child who Is a Soldier?

Though I grew up and then served as pastor in a different denomination, I’ve been a lifelong pacifist, culminating in…

The Wandering Leadings of the Spirit

A great swoop over my head, and a steady beat of wings. Suddenly a dark shape banks, turns, and disappears…

Moses and the Tantrum

If everything worked perfectly, we would be only five minutes late, I told myself as I hurried my two-year-old daughter…

Negative vs. Positive Rules

I’m at Friends General Conference Junior Gathering, serving as support staff with kids entering third and fourth grades. Some members…

The Need for Radical Acceptance

I’m a 26-year-old African American Quaker. There are parts of my life that seem typical to the lives of young…
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