Each class highlights a virtue—like truthfulness, or compassion—with clear language and simple practices that families can try at home.
Children learn about spiritual ideals like love, kindness, and generosity, through songs, stories, art, and games.
Parents matter too! Caregivers, teachers and neighbors all gather in a friendly after-class meetup to connect in an environment where genuine bonds are created.
This class brings together caregivers with babies and toddlers to introduce virtues like love, kindness, and gratitude through songs, movement, and stories.
Each session focuses on a virtue using welcome activities, character-building songs, storytelling, and musical play with shakers and instruments.
Afterwards, families share snacks while parents connect and build a caring community of neighbors.
This class mixes music, story, art, and cooperative games to build character.
Each session focuses on one virtue such as kindness, patience, or honesty—using clear language and age-appropriate practice. Teachers highlight how the virtue looks in different settings.
Kids take home a coloring page with the quotation they memorized to practice later on.
This class focuses on the development of spiritual habits and patterns of conduct that make up a strong moral character.
The classes focus on seven themes: the nature of prayer, spiritual laws and principles, seeking knowledge, respecting the dignity of every human being, living in harmony with others, being a good friend, and devoting our lives to the service of others.
Each class includes music, stories, art, drama, and cooperative games.
This class explores the source of spiritual knowledge by introducing children to the Manifestations of God—divine Teachers who have guided humanity throughout history.
Students learn about the lives and teachings of Moses, Krishna, Buddha, Zoroaster, Jesus Christ, Muhammad, the Báb, and Bahá'u'lláh, discovering how each brought God's message to humanity, suited to their time.
Each class consists of stories, dramatic reenactments, memorization, art, and songs.
Children spend years in school learning math, science, and history, but rarely learn directly how to develop good character and spiritual qualities.
We guide children's academic development because we know they need teachers for those subjects. Why would we assume they can develop spiritually without guidance?
Without spiritual education, children absorb whatever values surround them—often the materialism, selfishness, and confusion prevalent in society. They need a moral framework to navigate life's choices and contribute to a better world.
Spiritual education gives children the tools to recognize their noble nature, develop virtues like detachment and justice, and understand their purpose beyond personal success. Just as we teach literacy and numeracy as foundations for learning, we must teach spiritual principles as foundations for living.
Children of all backgrounds are welcome.
The curriculum comes from the Ruhi Institute, a nonprofit educational organization that began several decades ago in rural Colombia. The Ruhi Institute draws on Bahá'í teachings to develop moral and spiritual education programs used worldwide today.
Teachers are local volunteers from diverse backgrounds – often young adults or parents from the neighborhood – who wish to give back to the community. Teachers are trained, work together, and are background-checked to ensure the safety of children.
Since classes only meet once a week – and parents are fundamental to the education of their children – teachers collaborate with parents to reinforce and practice the ideas learned in class throughout the week at home.
Children’s classes are offered in neighborhoods across Boston, meeting in homes, community centers, or public parks. If there isn’t already a class near you, we’re happy to help organize one in your area. Contact us, and we’ll explore what’s possible.
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