I second story telling! That's a big part of what I'm doing with my daughter to teach her about my beliefs. There is so much that can be taught through stories. There's a reason so many educational cartoons are based around stories with morals, or the serendipity books. It can be any kind of story, from religious (some of my favorites are) to mythological (which you may argue religious ones are), to folk tales and modern stories. It gives children an example of how things should be done.

I'm also very fortunate in that I live in a military community with an open circle sponsored by a local Wiccan organization and recognized by the US Army. As a result, I've not only got a great support group for myself that understands the trials of deployments, separations, and all the difficulties of military life, but I've also got a group that I can use to show my daughter about what my beliefs are. My children are expected openly in ritual. The DFGL (Designated Faith Group Leader)/High Priest gives her a huge hug and almost seemed a little disappointed the one time she wasn't there because she was at a birthday party instead. One of the women there prints out coloring pages and comes up with activities for the kids to do when the adults are having classes, even though it's usually only my daughter on class nights. Last week they colored in a coloring book with pictures of all the seasons, talked about all the things that changed during the seasons, the significance in Wiccan spirituality, and in honor of Yule being right around the corner, they made snow men in clay because we won't have a white Christmas. The woman running it told stories about what happened back home when she was a little girl and all the things people do in the winter as part of her lesson in the spirituality of it. It was actually pretty cool! The adult's class was also on the wheel of th year, but not terribly as interesting. The idea behind the class is to give parents and their kids something to talk about on the drive home. The parents and the children have a connection that they wouldn't otherwise have and they both have a deeper understanding of what the other one was learning in a way geared better towards their own level of education.

I think the best way to share your faith and spiritual belief with your children is to incorporate it into your daily life. Once my husband gets home and we can finally settle some of this chaos into order, I'm going to go back to doing yoga in the morning while he's at PT. Corde and I used to do a Baby and Me yoga thing together, her with her baby doll since she didn't have a baby, but Aris has gotten to active and doesn't have interest in playing along. Then when I'm done, I'll put her kids yoga on and do that with her, since I know she complains my yoga is too hard. She's asked about my altar several times, so I tell her about it. When we come home, we're going to be setting up an altr for her on her bureau. We talk about something having to do with my spiritual beliefs at least two or three times a week. We sing chants while we're driving on long car rides and she helps me sing one of the chants we use as a lullaby for the baby every night. It's become a part of life here. Granted, I'm not Wiccan. My beliefs are pretty much a mash-up of family traditions and things I've learned as I got older, so I can't exactly point her to a book when she's older, but it's a start.

The best thing I can say is follow your heart. Rarely is there a better judge than that.