--which reveals a post from a Christian, in fact one of the liberal Protestants you mention. Your daughter's enthusiasm reminds me of myself in Sunday School. Looking back about 65 years, to the ten-year-old me, I see a self important little miss, loving the familiar rituals which I associated with adulthood although my parents never attended church. A well run Sunday School program can be a useful way to integrate family and community. I can't speak as an experienced S.S. teacher; one of the teenagers in my short-lived career with a class later became my student at the university and an outspoken atheist--he enjoyed pointing out that I had been his S.S. teacher. I found that amusing, but his mother did not. Over the years I have observed many children enjoying the social elements of family church participation. No matter what they make of religion as adults, the experience can be good for both parents and children.

And I can see this as especially important to Jewish children, as you say.