Parenting Asatru

By Emily Shelton, Head of RFU Family Services

We want the best for our kids and our religious beliefs are not common yet. So what do we do? We read out loud the writings we have, we practice with them, and we model our way of life. We have our new monthly booklets, an RFU library of PDFs, and translations of our lore. If you’d like to start simple, Jackson Crawford is the simplest writer to understand across all ages.

Runes, much like the alphabet you can start teaching at any age, the shapes, meaning, and alphabet equivalent. Ever play spy as a kid? Make secret messages with friends or family? Use the runes to leave the messages as a scavenger hunt, and make it fun! It’s a way to communicate in an emergency too. For example, my family lives in a wildfire area, if my husband and I are ever separated or have to evacuate we have routes to take and have a bind rune that we will leave if electronics go down.

It’s okay to not know the answer to things too. You have a whole community at your fingertips. Post the questions in the general chat or a corresponding side group and we can share our knowledge to explain the answer in the best way. We are your village to help you along the way!