Sophia L. Fahs and Elizabeth Manwell wrote about religious development in Consider the Children—How They Grow: . . . religion is the dynamic and personal philosophy of life by which one lives. It is found in the meanings one gives to daily living. It involves one’s attitudes and deeds in relation to other human beings, and also one’s understanding and attitudes toward the physical universe and other forms of life apart from the mere human realm. It involves one’s understanding of self, and an estimate of one’s own value. It involves one’s attitude toward sex, birth, and death. It involves the balance one maintains between fears and hostilities on the one hand, and the warmth of friendly relations on the other. It involves one’s attitudes toward what one cannot know as well as toward what one can know. Chalice Children is designed to provide the 12 main types of experiences that Sophia Fahs connects with natural religious development in young children: Experiences with the great forces of nature, such as rain, wind, snow, the sun, and the moon Experiences with animate and inanimate things, sensing their differences and wondering at the mystery of life and at the power within a thing to grow, to feel, and perhaps to think The discovery that living things have a beginning—that they are the discovery of one’s own birth The discovery of Experiences with sickness, suggesting constructive attitudes that may be developed in times of crisis Play with one’s own shadow
Sophia L. Fahs and Elizabeth Manwell wrote about religious development in Consider the Children—How They Grow: . . . religion is the dynamic and personal philosophy of life by which one lives. It is found in the meanings one gives to daily living. It involves one’s attitudes and deeds in relation to other human beings, and also one’s understanding and attitudes toward the physical universe and other forms of life apart from the mere human realm. It involves one’s understanding of self, and an estimate of one’s own value. It involves one’s attitude toward sex, birth, and death. It involves the balance one maintains between fears and hostilities on the one hand, and the warmth of friendly relations on the other. It involves one’s attitudes toward what one cannot know as well as toward what one can know. Chalice Children is designed to provide the 12 main types of experiences that Sophia Fahs connects with natural religious development in young children: Experiences with the great forces of nature, such as rain, wind, snow, the sun, and the moon Experiences with animate and inanimate things, sensing their differences and wondering at the mystery of life and at the power within a thing to grow, to feel, and perhaps to think The discovery that living things have a beginning—that they are the discovery of one’s own birth The discovery of Experiences with sickness, suggesting constructive attitudes that may be developed in times of crisis Play with one’s own shadow
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