Ethical Kids at The Bergen Ethical Sunday School

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Families of all backgrounds, particularly those with mixed religious heritage, trust Ethical Culture to provide a caring community in which children up to age 14 can learn to find answers to the most important questions in life.

Society members teaching in our Sunday School use age appropriate curricula to help children understand themselves, their relationships to others around them and the world they live in.

Kids make friends and have fun as they gradually develop their own sense of morality and their own humanistic ideals.

These are some of the goals of the Ethical Culture Sunday School:

The Youth Group

Maddie's Castle

Our Youth Group is a place for our Sunday school graduates to do good works and hang out.

Rainbow Warriors

Rainbow Warriors Youth Theatre was a unique performing arts summer program sponsored by the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County and the NiteStar Program of New York City. Over a 2-week period (August 18 – August 29, 2008) participants received professional training in environmental issues (global warming/climate change, recycling, air and water pollution and community building) as well as professional training in playwriting, acting, stagecraft (lighting, sound, costumes, stage management), music and dance. The process culminated in the creation of an original theatrical presentation.

Parenting Beyond Belief Workshop

The Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County is proud to have recently sponsered a half-day workshop featuring Author and Educator

Dale McGowan

Raising Children Without Theistic Religion

We learned how to effectively:

Encourage religious literacy without indoctrination
Help kids interact productively with a religious world
Help kids develop active moral reasoning, weigh church-state issues in the public sphere, address sensitive issues with religious relatives using the principles of nonviolent communication
Help children develop a healthy understanding of death and a joyful love of life
Build a family atmosphere of fearless questioning and boundless wonder

Saturday, October 17, 2009

9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (Doors open at 9)

Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County

687 Larch Ave, Teaneck, NJ 07666

Childcare and light refreshments available.

Here's our pdf flyer.

Using Philosophy for Children in our Ethical Culture Sunday School

The idea behind P4C

We underestimate our children’s capabilities to learn. Consequently the teaching of critical thinking skills is almost totally absent in our school systems. In order to think clearly, children need examples and practice in good reasoning, thinking, comprehension and understanding, all good philosophical concepts. One of the best ways to teach such things, according to Philosophy for Children advocates, is through guided participatory discussions, commonly referred to as a community of inquiry. P4C can dramatically improve the thinking skills of children.

The Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County