Workbook
For Interfaith Families Raising Children
When Mom Prays One Way and Dad Prays Another — and the Kids Are Watching
Your children are learning what faith means from watching both of you.
For the parents in interfaith relationships raising children who want to document what their family's interfaith identity means: the values, the practices, and what the children are absorbing.
The Name It First Experience
Interfaith families raising children navigate one of the most complex identity challenges in family life: two traditions, two sets of inherited values, and children watching to see how their parents hold it all. This workbook documents what your family has built — and what you want to build from here. The output is not a resolution. It is a signed identity document.
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Sample questions
- What does it mean to raise children in a household where two faiths are both genuinely present — and what have you worked out about how to hold both?
- What from each tradition does your family actively practice or celebrate — and how do you navigate the moments when they pull in different directions?
- What do you want your children to understand about the two traditions they carry — not which one to choose, but what each one actually means and offers?
Research basis
Grounded in Crenshaw (1991) intersectionality applied to religious-cultural identity, Cross (1991) identity development frameworks applied to religious identity formation in children, Rosenbaum and Rosenbaum (1994) interfaith family research, and Fishman (2004) scholarship on interfaith marriage and Jewish identity.
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