Babies and toddlers bitesize course
- For anyone with under fives in their life (or those expecting a baby or toddler through birth or adoption).
- Designed to start discussion and reflection with people new to faith or just exploring as well as those who have been Christians longer about nurturing the spiritual lives of babies and toddlers.
- Based on the slimline book Babies and Toddlers: Nurturing your child’s spiritual life by Rachel Turner.
- Made up of five 7 – 10 min videos, plus three additional or alternative videos for families bringing babies or children for infant baptism, thanksgiving or dedication.
- The leader guide and takeaway sheets, allow anyone to run it as course with individual reflection and group discussion questions. It can be run with a group, including online and in an existing baby or toddler group, or it can be used by individuals or couples. Further training videos to support leaders are available here. Scroll down to request to download the videos so you can play them offline.
- This is all freely available but we ask everyone who uses the material to register their course and make a donation, so that we can support you, pray for you and keep making it available to others.
- You can search for a course near you or join the next course facilitated by Parenting for Faith on Zoom (happens once a year).
Sessions in the course
Getting going
This video starts unpacking what it means to nurture our little one’s spiritual development, why we might want to do that and why we’re better at it than the church is!
Keeping it real
This video explores how we might be feeling about helping our child meet and know God and some simple, easy ways that it can become part of our day-to-day life with them.
Connection and communication
This video suggests some ideas to help our babies and toddlers connect and communicate with God.
Bible stories and bedtimes
This video looks at ways to read Bible stories and how to help our littles ones feel connected to us and to God at bedtime.
Chatting to God
This video explores prayer and how you and your little one can chat to God throughout the day.
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