How can people best help their children grow up knowing about the divine, and to help them cultivate a high belief quotient and appreciate its importance for them?

This is best done if taken care of actively, by having regular time devoted to sharing of a spiritual practice with the children, exposing them to the concepts, to the ideas, to the meaning, in ways they can relate to at their level as they grow. This needs to have a careful staging of the realities of existence, to not overwhelm the child with tales of calamity and dire consequences for evil thoughts and conduct, but to show the wisdom of doing good, and the benefits of feeling good, and how this is the divine impulse within them. It can be stated that simply, with the heartfelt desire that the parent holds for the child to have the best possible life and the greatest happiness and joy, and that the divine will help them in their quest, and learn to appreciate this is a precious gift and a delightful experience all along the way. There can be many paths to teaching. Many tools are available. One of the best is nature itself. To commune with nature brings people much closer to Creator. This need not be in a formal religious edifice, although that is certainly one way to expose children to the feeling of reverence such buildings exude from the gathering of many, many, people turning their thoughts to prayer and a divine experience. If the focus in the message is always on the divine principles of giving and receiving love, and all of the opportunities throughout life where one is put to the test—whether to give and receive, or to take and neglect—those are the choices and the contrasts they will have before them again and again. Children can understand things have consequences, and there are many events in day‑to-day living to illustrate these principles, and can be used as ways to teach the children the consequences of their actions, reflect the flow of love or its absence in some way or another, and can come to be predicted as to what will happen, and then presented by thinking beforehand what is likely to take place with any particular choice made by the child for their conduct in handling a particular circumstance. This alone is a fine way to guide the young. It need not have religious trappings, but those can be added if desired and is felt to be important by the parents. There are many benefits in having an identification with a religious group, when it is one that is love-based as a priority and has less of the fear and punishment messages as the driving force, as they can be quite destructive by raising fear within the young. This is not necessary, to inculcate an appreciation of the divine. It will backfire and will teach the opposite. That one has power through threats, intimidation, and retribution—those are perspectives that fail again and again because they are non-divine, and always circle back around to punish the perpetrator. A loving touch, done with a genuine desire to see their child become a loving, sensitive, and responsible member of society, is the greatest of rewards and the greatest of joys a parent can have, in seeing all their dedication and sacrifice and hard work becoming a gift to the world.