<strong>The Pastoral Care of Children</strong> focuses on the need for pastoral caregivers todevelop relationships with children and youth in their own right. M... » 

The Pastoral Care of Children focuses on the need for pastoral caregivers todevelop relationships with children and youth in their own right. Many pastoralcaregivers have high anxiety when children are ill or hurt they are unsure howto have a substantive conversation with a nineyear old or their fears blockthem from hearing what children have to say. This book seeks to help pastoralcaregivers overcome their anxiety by suggesting that a unique playful childcentered approach is called for. This approach is illustrated for you withstories of actual pastoral encounters with children to assist you with servingtheir spiritual needs. «