Conformation

[Churchman25]

Do any of you have ways to get your teenage daughters to want to be confirmed and have an interest in the catholic faith?

Although my sister will go to church with us alot which is good this took awhile to get her around to this, and if she has alot of homework she will still put up a fight with my mom.

As far as being confirmed if my parents dont make her go I can totally see her not wanting to be being confirmed entirely.

 

[1ke]

Do any of you have ways to get your teenage daughters to want to be confirmed and have an interest in the catholic faith?

Although my sister will go to church with us alot which is good this took awhile to get her around to this, and if she has alot of homework she will still put up a fight with my mom.

As far as being confirmed if my parents dont make her go I can totally see her not wanting to be being confirmed entirely.

There isn’t a simple answer for this. In general, it is about the total faith life of the household and all of the formative years cumulatively. It is difficult to get a child or teen interested if they haven’t been formed in the faith from infancy. Teen years are difficult years.

You can share your testimony of faith with her, your parents can encourage her. But it is your parents and not you who need to be forming her in the faith. She is not your daughter.

 

[ConfusedLucy]

I think this sort of thing needs to be done from the start and even then there is no guarantee. Try to set her a good example but I’m personally very cynical about pressuring teenagers into confirmation.

 

[Bridgit_Andrews]

Do any of you have ways to get your teenage daughters to want to be confirmed and have an interest in the catholic faith?

Although my sister will go to church with us alot which is good this took awhile to get her around to this, and if she has alot of homework she will still put up a fight with my mom.

As far as being confirmed if my parents dont make her go I can totally see her not wanting to be being confirmed entirely.

Pray. Pray for her to be converted to Christ.

 

[John_Yurich_USA]

I chose not to be confirmed as a teenager. I waited until I was almost 24 years old to be confirmed.

 

[Churchman25]

She is 15.
This is a wild guess but lots of times in teenagers do you think think this might happen because religion at this point could be difficult to understand because of its transparency?

 

[John_Yurich_USA]

She is 15.
This is a wild guess but lots of times in teenagers do you think think this might happen because religion at this point could be difficult to understand because of its transparency?

The reason I chose not to be confirmed as a teenager is because I was busy with school homework to take religious education class to be confirmed. But when I was almost 24 years old I was only working part time so I had the time to take the class for preparation to be confirmed. I was taught individually by a nun for preparation for confirmation since I was the only adult being confirmed.

 

[CatholicSpirit]

Tell them baptism gives some the gift of prophecy from the Holy Spirit and Confirmation is the second part which completely seals it. Also, confirmation formally makes a Catholic a soldier of Christ. I liked those two facts growing up.

 

[Casilda]

Do any of you have ways to get your teenage daughters to want to be confirmed and have an interest in the catholic faith?

Although my sister will go to church with us alot which is good this took awhile to get her around to this, and **if she has alot of homework she will still put up a fight with my mom.
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As far as being confirmed if my parents dont make her go I can totally see her not wanting to be being confirmed entirely.

Ok, I see you have stated the reason why she is resisting. John Yurich USA gave the same reason as to not wanting confirmation as a teen. In his case it looks like it worked out better, getting individual teaching from a religious. Instead of frustrating her, that is an option. I have been in some pretty badly run rcia/confirmation classes and they assumed this one size course worked for everything (yet people dropped out regularly). Does your parish offer an option?

I know a mom having trouble getting her teen to attend. It’s because she is bored, the course is dumbed down and the teachers are not equipped to answer questions. She also hated the ‘mandatory retreat’ that just alienated her further. It is taking all the teen’s strength just to keep going to mass and stay focused on her faith without the distractions of socializing.