Teaching Your Children About God

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Copyright © 2000 by Focus on the Family. All rights reserved. International copyright secured.

Teaching Kids about God, first printing, 2003. Excerpted and adapted from Parents' Guide to the Spiritual

Growth of Children, copyright © 2000 by Focus on the Family. All rights reserved. International copyright

secured.

A Focus on the Family book published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Cover photographs copyright © 2003 by David Difuntorum. All rights reserved.

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Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973,

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publications Data

Teaching kids about God : an age by age plan for parents of children from birth to age twelve / general editors,

John Trent, Rick Osborne, Kurt Bruner.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-8423-7679-8 (sc)

1. Christian education of children. 2. Parenting—Religious aspects—Christianity. 3. Family—Religious

aspects—Christianity. I. Trent, John T. II. Osborne, Rick. III. Bruner, Kurt D.

BV1475.3 .W43 2003

248.8′45—dc21 2002153986

Printed in the United States of America

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Acknowledgments

This project has been a partnership in the fullest sense of the word, involving

Focus on the Family, Lightwave Publishing, Encouraging Words, and Tyndale

House Publishers. We wish to thank the following individuals for their help:

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY

Kurt Bruner

For his passion and vision for this project,

his valuable insight, his leadership,

and