Children, Families and Current Events

Links to Resources

Taking Time for the Stories of Our Lives
How often does the stillness to learn something new happen in our lives and more importantly in our children's lives? Is there time to hear a calling when homework is due, dishes need washing, and music and sports activities are clamoring for attention?

Earth Day: Honoring our Home, Planet Earth
Resources for Children, Youth, Families, and Religious Educators

The Gift of Time
"The Gift of Time" is a new children/family resource about family life, the culture of work life and how families can work together to claim time as a family value.

Enriching Teaching
Resources for and about Families

Children's Sabbaths
The Children's Defense Fund Children's Sabbath is a time for people of all faiths to stand together so that we can stand by children.

• Observing Children's Sabbath: Education Activities and Advocacy
• UU Worship Resources and Reflections
• How are the Children?

Faith in the Face of Disaster: UU Response to Hurricane Katrina
How can we explain such tragedy and devastation? How can we make our children feel safe when we ourselves are so deeply shaken? We simply do the best we can. We take small steps.

• Resources for youth on trauma
• Helping Young Children After a Disaster , National Association for the Education of Young Children
• How to Help Kids Cope with Disaster: Ten Tips from Save the Children
• FEMA for Kids: Hurricanes This engaging section of the FEMA for Kids website is specifically devoted to understanding hurricanes. 

Children, Democracy and Unitarian Universalist Faith
What we do and how we talk with our children, matter. Families can nurture democracy. Children are intimately part of the landscape of American politics.

• Resources for Parents, Children, and Youth

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