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HOW TO TEACH PEACE TO CHILDREN Copyright 1981 by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683 Published simultaneously in Canada by Herald Press, Waterloo, Ont. N2L 6H7. All rights reserved. International Standard Book Number: 08361-1969-X Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
Foreword
5
1. The Family's Responsibility for Teaching Peace
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2. Twenty Suggestions for Teaching Peace to Children in the Home
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3. The Church/Meeting and the Home Working Together
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Suggestions for Group Discussion
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Suggestions for Additional Reading
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The Author
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Foreword
Above my desk is the following quote from a Christian saint. "The church is good at preparing wonderful papers without the courage to apply them." At least once a week I reflect on the peace statements and actions espoused by the Society of Friends, Mennonites, and Church of the Brethren. They are wonderful statements, biblically based, but too few of us have the courage to apply and live them.
The New Call to Peacemaking (NCP) began in 1975 as a historic peace church effort to rediscover and reaffirm the biblical base and Christ-centeredness for a peace witness. We are making progress! We still have that tendency to pass wonderful papers and make strong statements without the courage to live them out. But, we have vowed that NCP will do everything in its power to bring to individual Christians the tools, faith, and support to be active peacemakers in their day-to-day lives.
The NCP is happy to provide this practical resource for parents and families who don't want to just mouth peace language, but desire to find practical handles to build peacemaking lifestyles in the home and community. Three articles written by J. Lorne Peachey for the Gospel Herald have been adapted for our use. Lorne wrote for people who wanted specific suggestions and models for experimentation and further development. His thoughts are not ethereal, but are quite practical. Joyce Mardock and David Helmuth have adapted Lorne's original material and added more specific handles for our use in the home, local Christian fellowship, and community.
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Take this material and run with it! It will certainly remind you of conversations which have taken place around your table at mealtimes. Experiment with the material, adapt it for your use, and add to it.
Mennonites, Friends, and Brethren don't feel it is enough to curse the darkness of war, greed, and other forms of violence. We must light as many lights as we can with the expectation that with Christ's help these lights will, in the words of Scripture, "... shine on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it."
CHARLES L. BOYER PEACE CONSULTANT CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN
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1 The Family's Responsibility for Teaching Peace
The first day in an inner-city school in a new community had been a traumatic one for our 11-year-old son. He came home that evening almost in tears, telling my wife and me he hadn't met a single friend; everyone he met wanted to bully and fight. "I'm going back to fight those stupid kids," he said.
"But that's no way to make friends," we quickly replied. He didn't hear. Instead he was off on a tale of how, while he was standing off by himself, his teacher had come to him on the playground and said, "You've got to stick up for your rights."
The next day Jon Alan did just that. In his words: "The kid beside me asked for a piece of paper, so I gave him one. When he asked for another, I told him to get his own. He said, 'You want to fight?' so I hauled off and belted him one. That stopped him." Later when Jon Alan left his desk to get a book off the shelf, he saw the boy slip a stick of gum on his desk. The two were friends from then on.
Our son had solved his problem. But our questions had just begun. How does Jesus' way of love, of being a peacemaker, apply to a situation like that? How much can we, as parents, expect our children to live by our peace values? More important, how do we pass on values about peace and nonviolence to our son?
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