Children of the Green: Raising our Kids in Pagan Traditions

by Hannah E. Johnston

Children of the Green is an in-depth consideration of child raising from within pagan spirituality. Written by a long-time pagan witch, educator and parent, it considers the deeper questions of raising children within pagan spirituality, and the building of community for pagan families. Taking a unique approach, Children of the Green focuses not solely on sharing the festivals and celebratory cycles of paganism, but also discusses the moral, ethical and practical issues of raising kids as pagans; from working with schools, handling family changes and crises, child development from a pagan perspective and facing the challenges of a changing world.

Genres: Parenting, Paganism

312 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 30, 2014

Reviews

[Raven · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book looked promising with its introduction but turned out to be a long winded and vague stream of drabble. The author had very little of substance to give, and I feel like I wasted my time and have learned nothing.

[The Ethical Witch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very insightful advice on how to educate children in a pagan way.

[Lucya Szachnowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book written about ways of raising kids in pagan families. Although I don't have kids myself, I know this is a tough issue for pagans. Some pagans who have children want to try to raise them as pagans or in a pagan-friendly way while others just prefer to try to keep their paganism secret until their children are old enough to understand.

This book is written by a pagan mother who has raised a family and developed lots of techniques for helping kids grow and develop as well as ways of introducing them to things such as meditation and appreciation of the cycles of nature.

It looks at the different aspects of children's needs in terms of the elements - earth being physical needs, air being their minds, fire being their activities and water being their emotions. It also considers spiritual development and how you can help children in this way too.

Children of the Green is intelligent, well researched and thought-provoking. I would recommend it to any pagan who has young kids or is thinking of starting a family.

[Amanda McCann · Rating 1 out of 5]

I had read this book after a few of my favorite health conscious “Christian” influencers started to produce sour fruit. I then began to test the spirits. While reading this book I found a lot of worrisome pagan practices that not only snuck into a field of great Christian influence but into the churches and Christian therapist offices. I also noticed that when reading this book I was getting specific flashbacks that led me to question my upbringing with my father and his ex fiancé.
Anyways, this book was insightful enough for me to unfollow these so called Christian influences that practice and preach most of the teachings in this book. It’s concerning how many of my Christian friends are still unaware or are choosing to stay ignorant to it after finding out.