Quakerism is a spiritual journey. It is a search for understanding. It is a search to find The Way. This search expands into our parenting. Parenting is a search for understanding of how to live with and guide our children.
Our search is based on the belief that there is a Way and that the Way will open. For parents, this means there is a Way even with the most obstreperous child.
Written notes from an online conversation -- held June 8, 2018 -- concerning ways that Quaker meetings can support Friends in helping children thrive during times of turmoil in the broader communit
Recording of an online conversation -- held June 8, 2018 -- concerning ways that Quaker meetings can support Friends in helping children thrive during times of turmoil in the broader community.
Dear Editor: We were excited to see your photos on the front and back covers of the new Western Friend (Sept/Oct 2015), showing the little Fisher Price people. Our grandson, who will be two in November, LOVES the ones that belonged to our son, his father.
“The children’s meeting” of 1663 is famous among Friends. In 1906, some Friends made a book about it, told in the words of fourteen-year-old Judith, who was there in 1663. Near the start of the book, Judith says:
