Young Friends

How Monthly Meetings Can Support Their Youth

I first came to meeting when I was five years old, with my parents and my stuffed frog. The frog…

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…
Features

Why Young Friends Need Elders—and Why They Need Us

To be a Young Friend is to be in transition—to be in a time of great possibility, uncertainty, and formation.… Micah Bales

Being a Friendly Adult Presence in the Lives of Young Friends: What Would Tom Fox Do?

My 15-year-old son Jonathan dragged his tired body in the door, trailing his sleeping bag and pillow, exhausted but with…

Young Friends Need More Substance

What I have appreciated most about Friends is the way they have welcomed me into their Religious Society, both in…

Kickapoo Valley Young Friends Choir

Hanna: The Kickapoo Valley Young Friends Choir was started during a now-annual First-day school fundraiser for a school in El…

It Takes a Meeting to Raise a Quaker

You can raise a Quaker without First-day school, without lesson plans, even without figuring out "what every Quaker child needs…

Friendly Partners Program

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

Why High School Sucked and How Young Friends Saved My Life

Shortly after graduating from high school I read an article stating that the reason adolescents place so much emphasis on…

Finding Our Place as Young Adult Friends

Sometimes I feel as though I lived during the period of Quietism in Quaker history. I attended what may be…

Forging the Ties that Bind: Supporting Quaker Youth

I have often wondered why I alone of my three siblings am still active in Quaker circles. We all attended…
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