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This article outlines spiritual care as the foundation for a child’s religious education. The elements of spiritual care are described by identifying how God concepts form in the young, by naming children’s inherent spiritual needs, by offering perspectives from human spirituality research over the last 60 years, particularly as it applies to children, by analyzing the way meaning forms through experience as it finds its way into worldviews each of us holds by early adolescence, and finally, by depicting four types of literacy (cognitive, emotional, imaginative and social) at the basis of spiritual care and as the groundwork for a child’s future development within various religious traditions. The purpose of spiritual care is to focus on the humanity of children and to situate their education within a framework built on their spiritual needs. This article is deeply embedded in assumptions associated with the Christian tradition. However, a fundamental assumption of spirituality research is that every person is spiritual. As a result, the intention to educate the human spirit as a first step to initiating children into a faith tradition is well founded, it also raises the possibility of spiritual care as undergirding secular education, but that question is beyond this article’s purview. The intention is to spark a conversation among religious traditions as one way to meet the deepest spiritual needs of children, which is an urgent dialogue to engage in at present. If French philosopher Jean Baudrillard was correct, the age we are living in is well described as a revolution of confusion. A response to confusion requires the spiritual needs of children and creating a broad theoretical and practical approach to how they think and act, as they move into a tradition that they take on board, along with their developed capacity to reflect on that tradition from personal and socially informed perspectives.

This study was aimed to determine the students’ social literacy in their daily journals at grade four of Al-Fauzien Islamic elementary school in Indonesia. The ability of social literacy is the capacity of a person to be able to live and contribute to his or her community, which involved intellectual skills, social skills, cooperative skills, and attitudes and values. The student's daily journal is a collection of student writings whose contents expose students' skills in reflecting experiences, findings, critical thinking, connecting ideas, exploring and expressing their knowledge. The method used in this study is a qualitative method with qualitative content analysis techniques. The data of this study are the sentences taken from students 'daily journals, which were then reduced, coded based on students' social literacy aspects that appeared and analyzed, then triangulated. The results of the study revealed the ability of students’ social literacy as follows: intellectual skills 34.1%, social skills 12.6%, cooperation skills 14.7%, and social attitudes and values 38.5%., This study was aimed to determine the students’ social literacy in their daily journals at grade four of Al-Fauzien Islamic Elementary School in Indonesia. The ability of social literacy is the capacity of a person to be able to live and contribute to his or her community, which involved intellectual skills, social skills, cooperative skills, and attitudes and values. The student's daily journal is a collection of student writings whose contents expose students' skills in reflecting experiences, findings, critical thinking, connecting ideas, exploring and expressing their knowledge. The method used in this study is a qualitative method with qualitative content analysis techniques. The data of this study are the sentences taken from students 'daily journals, which were then reduced, coded based on students' social literacy aspects that appeared and analyzed, then triangulated. The results of the study revealed the ability of students’ social literacy as follows: intellectual skills 34.1%, social skills 12.6%, cooperation skills 14.7%, and social attitudes and values 38.5%.