Although everyone would seem to agree that parents should attend to their children's spiritual development, few books or other resources pay attention to the spiritual lives of parents themselves. Might parents see their responsibilities and actions differently if they were conceived as a set of practices that nurture their own faith lives, as well as those of their children? Reframing parenting in this way alleviates the need for parents to be all knowing authority figures who impart spiritual knowledge to children, and empowers parents to notice what they are already doing as potentially valuable and to practice it more consciously as part of their own faith journey.
