Dear witch parents, I hope this blog can help you a little with ideas on how to let your kids learn with you about witchcraft or beliefs. Every kid is a blank sheet about the world, we can show them everything to love the world even more.
Religion and culture
To teach your kids about your religion and culture you need to think if you only want to show yours only or others too. I've been raised knowing more religions and cultures than my own. I am always thankful for that cause it taught me to be open-minded about every belief. Being mixed race helped with that a little to, accepting myself and the cultures around me.
How I see it is that you learn to love your culture more through witchcraft. With every myth and old folklore magick, it's the learn to work with it and accept it. So when i have kids i want them to be raised like I was raised, I know not every parent can say that but I have the deepest respect for you to change that for your kids.
What do I teach the children?
Teaching your kids about your beliefs is very important, but it is always good to teach them about others too. Witchcraft stays a practice but our beliefs are different for every person. To respect every witch is important to let them learn about other cultures or beliefs.
- Meditation: We can start teaching kids to meditate at an early age, They can create their own little space to do that even. It would be great for their future self to know how to meditate to bring themself to ground and be more aware.
- Show them other religions: Teaching kids at a young age about other religions makes them more aware of other beliefs. Show them you respect other beliefs so they won't hate everything that is different from theirs, it makes them more open-minded.
- Use deities stories as bedtime stories: Some stories are heavy for kids but you can have a children's version of them too. To let them learn about all kinds of deities, even yours, so that they know and love their stories.
- Celebrating the wheel of the year: Let your kids learn about the wheel of the year with stories of why it started. Let them do activities in connection to the holiday.
- Nature adventures: Let them learn about the animals, trees, plants, and crystals around your area making it an adventure from it. So that they love nature even in their adulthood. you can even have fun picnics in the woods and make it magickal
Witch kids books from babies to older kids
Best books for moms who want their babies to grow up with a little magick:
- Baby astrology: Dear little Taurus, by Roxy Marj
- This book shows a Taurus baby what his little personality will look like, and how to understand himself. You have more zodiac books from this writer so every sign can be bought.
- Mind-Body Baby: Crystals
- These books are very colorful but also learn which crystal they will like in the future. It explains lightly what those crystals can feel like and what you get from them.
- Mind-Body Baby: Chakras
- Same with the one up above, very colorful and fun to let your baby see the colors of the chakras and show them where they are.
- C is for Coven, by Andrea Stein
- It shows the alphabet but with witchy connections to it like B is for Besom and it will explain what it is too.
- The season of the witch, from Matt Ralphs
- It is beginning for older kids to learn about the history of witchcraft, and what kinds there are. From Norse healers to voodou practitioners, a great way to accept closed practices too.
- A good Crystal & gems book
- To get them started to learn about what kind of crystals would fit them, but also which they need on a daily basis.
- The witch boy, by Molly Ostertag
- It is about a boy who is finding out he is a witch, he thinks he is going to be a shapeshifter but is learning more about witchcraft and falls in love with it.
- Moonbeams: A Lullaby of the Phases of the Moon, by Ann Bausem
- It's a lullaby about the moon phases, with amazing pictures in it of how it is around the world. To show how we are connected by one moon.
- What witches wear, by Andrea Stein
- This book lets kids see what a modern witch looks like in real life. With amazing artwork, it shows how we can be anything: a teacher, health care worker, or librarian, showing how diverse we are.
- How to make friends with a ghost, by Rebecca Green
- It shows a kid how to make a ghost friend in a fun but educational way. It will show them that ghosts aren't always scary and that they can be as chill and relaxed as them.
- Brina: A Pagan, by Andrea Stein
- It shows kids what kinds of witches there are and what they do. Perfect for when you want to show them the kind of paths they wanna go on. And shows lightly what kind of stones are there or divination.
