Product Description

Essential Information for Raising Children in the Craft Here is the first book to give parents the means to teach Wicca in a more formal fashion than just chatting with the kids around the kitchen table without losing the spontaneity and natural ways that led them to the Craft in the first place. Featuring a Wiccan curriculum for each of the five age groups from infancy to young adulthood, O Gaea shows parents how to effectively weave Wicca into a child s natural progression of learning. She presents age-appropriate activities for learning, such as the use of herbs and essential oils to soothe a fussy baby and using totems to instruct toddlers about animals and the natural world. For those interested in creating more formal learning environments, Raising Witches offers a variety of sample lessons, structure, and a prototype for readers who want to develop Sun Day School or Moon School classes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #258406 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

Wonderful help and advice for Pagan parents!
"Raising Witches" is a beautifully considered, structured look at general and spiritual parenting within a Wiccan/Pagan context. For those of us who wish to help our children develop into confident, well-adjusted, tolerant and spiritual individuals, O' Gaea offers her own experience as a Wiccan mother and priestess as well as insight into the deeper questions of involving our children actively in a Pagan religion. Difficult issues are approached sensitively and the developmental needs of the child are always the first priority. The stages of childhood are broken down into sections, and lesson plans offered for each stage of life from infancy to young adulthood, with plenty of pathworkings, spell samples, songs, ritual ideas and educational activity suggestions. Best of all, this book encourages all parents to interact with their children in a way that really supports the entire family, and her ideas about child-rearing really deserve serious consideration. I would highly recommend this book to any Pagan parents as a first step on a wonderful spiritual journey that you will take with your children.