CANCELLED: Parenting Guided by Quaker Faith and Practices

Workshop Number
49
Martha Smith
(Replacing Harriet Heath)
Audience
Who may register: 
Adult Only (high school with permission)
Time breakdown
Worship/worship-sharing: 
30%
Lecture: 
3%
Discussion: 
47%
Experiential Activities: 
20%
Description
Short Description: 

Our Quaker beliefs, testimonies and practices contain challenges and insights for how we can live as a family and how we can nurture our children. In a worshipful atmosphere, we will explore the support and guidance Quakerism can provide us as we discuss the specific concerns that we have for our families.

Long Description: 

Growing out my own parenting experiences and my work with parents, I have felt the tremendous and under-recognized need of parents for support, information, a listening ear, observations, and infrequently advice. This leading drew me to become involved in the Quaker Parenting Initiative with Harriet Heath, and to teach Quaker Parenting courses. For the last six or seven years I have been leading or planning courses or workshops in my Meeting and others around the Delaware Valley. I have found working with parents immensely rewarding and discovered that parents are hungry for a spiritual basis for their work and a want to share their joys and sorrows with other parents..All of these parents sought to integrate their Quakerism
into their parenting and family life.

The work of the Quaker Parenting Initiative has been under the oversight of the Friends Counseling Service and the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s Committee on Religious Education. A group of twelve women sought to discern more clearly how their Quaker Faith supported and guided their parenting. Their sharing is now in book form, Paths to Quaker Parenting Using Quaker Beliefs, Testimonies and Practices, available through FGC book store.