A Nice Article on Quaker Parenting (But Applicable to All, I think)

[umsami]

I stumbled across this article and thought it would resonate with a lot of MDC Mamas of all faiths....

"Parenting for Adulthood"

http://www.friendsjournal.org/parenting-for-adulthood

"One underlying scale between these endpoints is expressed by the query: "What do we need to keep our children from and what do we need to expose them to?" I think of the two ends of that thread as being transparency, where ideas and activities are readily visible, and opacity, where a veil or barrier is set up between the child and the idea. We need consciously to protect our children from some things while making other things transparent...."

[PoetryLover]

Thank you so much for posting this! This is the best article on parenting that I have ever read. I am a Quaker, but I think you are right in that in can appeal to people from a variety of faiths. Very, very good article. This is how I aspire to raise my children.