Margaret Crompton

Nurturing Children’s Spiritual Well-Being focuses on communication between children and adults in Quaker families and meetings. Margaret Crompton includes practical advice along with stories that reveal children’s innate spirituality. Her work is also rich with opportunities for adult Friends to explore their own feelings and experiences as they gain confidence and joy when they are with children. The author frames her ideas and illustrations in the context of four interconnected Quaker testimonies – Equality, Simplicity, Truth, and Peace. Advices are included to aid further reflection. (Pendle Hill Website)… (meer)

Here is a lively thoughtful discussion on children's spiritual development. Her many examples illustrate her profound points about what loving nurture is. It becomes clear that true spiritual nurture of children is really not different from spiritual nurture of adults, involving positive presence to the other.
In addressing spiritual well-being, she focuses on three integrated elements: 1) inner experience, 2) relationships based on attention to and care for other people, and 3) involvement with and concern for community, e.g., peacebuilding, poverty, and the environment. Thus this concern for spiritual well-being of children works with the full range of belief and practice within the RSF.
She provides Advices on the various topics she addresses: equality, simplicity, truth, and peace in working with children.… (meer)