1. Modern life is said to have become more stressful, including for adolescents and youths. Some of the stressors studied included exam & school pressure, relationship issues in the family, and boy-girl relationship, among others. Some of these stressors were even reported in literature to have caused adolescents and early youths to commit suicide, and suicide rate in this age group has been reported to be on the rise.
2. Some literature suggested that our adolescents and youths nowadays have poor coping skills and problem-solving skills in dealing with increasing life challenges. Some literature suggested that our adolescents and youths nowadays are more emotionally vulnerable to external stressors.
3. Will bringing up our children today who are adolescents and youths of tomorrow, by emphasising more religious upbringings and appropriate religious tenets help them in better dealing with their future increasing life challenges when they grow up?
Children are the assets of the family & in the earlier stage it is the environment of the family which helps to establish a moral cause of ethics in their value of the life .
For this the responsibility of parents in the initial stage help the children to observe the behavior ,habits ,& other part of their life of parents as a observation of the children in this regards remain quite effective .
With this the family must have a religious atmosphere in the family so that the children can also participated in the rituals of the religion . This also helps the children to establish the habit of the prayer & religion course in their life.
With the passage of the time in their going forward on the progress of the religion,prayer, & such other practices , they certainly receive the inner urge & code in their behavior & the life with their mind & brain immediately accept to show the right path of the life .
Their practice & behavior & experience which they receive from their prayer & other related norm of the prayer it offers them the source of intuition & the power of energy within them which can certainly help them to meet the challenge of the life .
This is my personal opinion
I truly believe that a strong religious upbringing helps children cope better with day-to-day situations. As the ability to differentiate between the right and wrong improves, resisting negative influences, bad company, addictions etc becomes easier. Managing stress with the help of appropriate decision and intuition, making makes children able to deal with the challenges faced while dealing with peers. Principles and a good nature serve to provide a firm base for good deeds, thus helping children to experience a state of happiness even in the absence of materialistic bliss. Cultures where stress is laid on generating good Karma have shown children to be brought up with empathy and the capability to nurture and help other selflessly and fearlessly. Also, the potential to face adverse situations without giving up is enhanced. So, spiritual and religious aspects also need to be incorporated to bring about the all round development of an individual. If these values are ingrained at an earlier age, it will become an integral part of the child's life, thus eventually helping them to become responsible global citizens.
I would argue it is spiritual awareness, contemplative practices supported by routine relational inquiry that are most important. From my professional experience working with children as a Registered Nurse in Pediatrics and from the lived experience of being a mother, I can attest to the need for routines that nurture and nourish curiosity about the world and being in the world of wonder and awe. It isn't necessary to have a religious affiliation to do so. Respectfully, I would argue, from personal experience, that religious rituals left unquestioned by parents may do more harm than good for children seeking to influence change in the existing turbulence already accomplished by religiosity, corporate domination and institutional mediocrity.
Dear Bob,
These articles may be of interest to you.
Best wishes,
Julio
PS: You should look into Professor Alexis D. Abernathy's work on spirituality and religiosity. She has a Research Gate profile.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexis_Abernethy/publications
http://www.apa.org/monitor/jan03/religion.aspx
I believe we need to understand the background of every problem. It is very important. Nowadays we can't deny that some older generation are unable to cope in teaching the younger generations because of their attitude as many younger generations came from broken families, I guess religion helps building the character of the students for them to learn. They may not have a good example to learn from as mostly are without good parental guidance.
The topic is obviously complicated. May I respectfully refer you to the book Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Religiosity (2015), which offers a detailed review of research on religiosity and coping.
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