{"id":7745,"date":"2012-12-20T18:11:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T02:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=7745"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:31:41","slug":"spiritual-upbringing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2012\/12\/20\/spiritual-upbringing\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Upbringing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>About the spiritual training of young, my view is a bit of the same. How you behave in your home <em>is<\/em> their spiritual upbringing. I think we have to be careful with all forms of ideological indoctrination, and that is what spiritual training is in children: the imposition of a set of abstract beliefs and ideals. Children will take these from of us, but I don&#8217;t think dogma serves anyone for long. After all, I was a very good Sunday School student, the star of my confirmation class, and yet I had my own spiritual crisis to resolve later in life. We all do.<\/p>\n<p>I always remind myself that I&#8217;m not trying to raise a Buddhist child. I&#8217;m trying to raise a Buddhist mother, and it\u2019s taking all my time! Not only my family, but also everyone everywhere will be served by my devoted discipline in my own training. Not because I&#8217;m self-important, but in recognition of the one true reality: no self. We are all interdependent, which means we are all one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.karenmaezenmiller.com\/teaching-children-to-meditate\/\">Karen Maezen Miller<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the spiritual training of young, my view is a bit of the same. How you behave in your home is their spiritual upbringing. I think we have to be careful with all forms of ideological indoctrination, and that is what spiritual training is in children: the imposition of a set of abstract beliefs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,34,30,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-motherhood","category-quotes","category-spirit"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7746,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions\/7746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}