How to Consult with your Child

December 18, 2011

How to Consult with your Child

By Tom Hodges Do you want to open communications with your child? This is hard for many of us but it can be so important for the future. Getting your child to tell you his/her thoughts and feelings will open communications between you. Consultation begins with sharing our thoughts and feelings openly. Meaningful decisions can [...]

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Keeping the Family Together

November 23, 2011
Keeping the Family Together

A young husband in Maryland decides being unified with his wife is more important than winning arguments.

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Stronger Than a Tornado

November 14, 2011
Stronger Than a Tornado

Junior youth, between the ages of 11-15 are forming an identity and learning who they are. In this video, junior youth in North Carolina talk about how they have benefited from participating in a spiritual empowerment program for junior youth. These programs are designed to help youth voice their concerns, make suggestions for improvements in [...]

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Prejudice is Not Just About Race

November 14, 2011
Prejudice is Not Just About Race

If you want your children to achieve their full potential, help them eliminate all forms of prejudice from their hearts and minds. In the words of one great educator, Daniel Jordan, prejudice is “the emotional attachment to false information.” It can come in many forms—prejudice against those from another race, religion or economic class. Discrimination [...]

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Sparking the Creativity in Junior Youth

November 14, 2011
Sparking the Creativity in Junior Youth

By Venustiano Olguin A few months ago I was invited to conduct a poetics seminar with a group of junior youth at the Sterling Pointe apartment complex in Beaverton, Oregon as part of the work being done by several Junior Youth Animators from the Beaverton Baha’i  community. As a retired college instructor with an M.A. [...]

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Two Frogs in a Bowl of Cream

November 14, 2011
Two Frogs in a Bowl of Cream

Youth and adults across the United States are reaching out to middle school students to provide mentoring, empowerment and to help kids “… bring themselves alive.” This is a story of a group of young professionals in Chicago have taken it upon themselves to connect with students on the south side of the city in [...]

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How to Raise Spiritually Aware Children

November 14, 2011

Our spiritually aware children will support our own spiritual development by expecting us to live moral and compassionate lives. We will want to make positive choices so that our children can be proud of us. Our human purpose is to know and to worship God and live according to the teachings of our religions. If [...]

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What I learned from Baha’i Childrens Classes

November 14, 2011
What I learned from Baha’i Childrens Classes

For over a century, Baha’is in the United States have offered spiritual education to Baha’i children. Today, Baha’is are partnering with their neighbors and friends to offer spiritual education to children of all backgrounds. In this video, Baha’is of all ages tell us what they learned in Baha’i children’s classes.

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Junior Youth: Not Simply A Time of Waiting

October 20, 2011
Junior Youth: Not Simply A Time of Waiting

Junior Youth is what Baha’is refer to as youth from 11-14 years of age. This video discuss the spiritual challenges one faces as a Jr. Youth in today’s society.

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Raising Kids Free of Prejudice

November 24, 2010
Raising Kids Free of Prejudice

If you want to live in a peaceful world, teach your children to eliminate prejudice from their lives. There are a few simple steps that will help you make progress toward this goal. Explain to your children that all people are part of one big human family. We are like the flowers in a garden—each [...]

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