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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’re Catholic so we have a wide variety of church times (we still miss it on occasion), but I’ve found with faith development that what happens at home is most important.  We pray nightly as a family and each of the special liturgical seasons, Advent and Lent, we use a prayer book and reflection questions together.  My kids are teens, they give one word answers often, but I can see that relationship with God is building. [/quote]

I was raised Catholic, gave one word answers and my relationship with God was waning by the minute.

The only way to tell if their relationship with God is building is to tell them they can do whatever they want with respect to religion...if a teen voluntarily attends church or does any of the praying you mention, then you are correct.
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Very true.
I myself didn't know until I went away to college. Didn't go to any church for half a year and found that I missed it. I then hunted up my own faith community, one that my parents may not have approved of.

We do religious activities at home and outside. But i make no assumptions about my kids no matter what they say or do (it's easy for teens to get sucked into being "religious" as part of their persona" until I see them pursuing this of their own freewill once they are independent of me.
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