How mothers set children’s spiritual compass and why it matters [View all]

Cathy Lynn Grossman

(RNS) Religious identity used to be “inherited.” “Cradle Catholic” is shorthand for born into the faith; within Judaism, the faith is passed through a Jewish mother to her children unless they grow up to proclaim a different religion.

But children don’t just inherit parents’ spirituality, says psychologist Lisa Miller in her new book, “The Spiritual Child.” She writes that the essential sense of a transcendent power in the world — one that will love, guide and accept them and wrap them in a protective layer of self-worth -– has to be nurtured.

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/05/08/mothers-set-childrens-spiritual-compass-matters/