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.
• 🌟 NEW for 2027! 🌟We have revamped this course with new video content from parents and carers, sharing their perspectives on nurturing the faith of tiny ones, alongside core teaching from the Parenting for Faith team.
• Join us for the ‘guided journey’ of this course, starting in February 2027 – designed to watch on-demand at a time that suits you, each week you will receive a new video and practical ideas to help the children in your life know God, delivered straight to your inbox. You can join the journey as an individual, or as a group together. To find out more about our guided journeys, click here. Booking coming soon!

Sessions in the course

There is an introduction to what each session is about below. You can watch all of the sessions on BRF Online here:

Watch Babies & Toddlers

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.