Mike Berenstain Quotes

• Families are where children live. Almost everything they experience is in the context of family life.

  Mike Berenstain

  Children, Family Life

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

  Mike Berenstain

  Children, Parent, Stories

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• I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads to adults is not fully appreciated by parents who may have more narrowly adult concerns and agendas.

  Mike Berenstain

  Art, Children, Character

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Parents sometimes object to the amount of humor introduced into stories that are designed to teach moral or spiritual lessons. They seem to think that simple grim lecturing of children is the best way to achieve such goals.

  Mike Berenstain

  Spiritual, Children, Simple

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• My father was from a secular Jewish family and my mother from a nominally Christian (Episcopalian) one. They were not religious as adults. They did, however, believe in educating their children about the Bible. They viewed this as an essential part of any education.

  Mike Berenstain

  Christian, Mother, Religious

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• As a young adult, I began to read widely in history, philosophy, and religion - including the Bible. I began to feel that a purely secular view of life was incomplete and that the universe was a fundamentally spiritual place.

  Mike Berenstain

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Views

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian, was baptized, and joined a church.

  Mike Berenstain

  Christian, Spiritual, Children

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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