Aren't many of us parents covertly asking ourselves sometimes:
"What is this just for an obviously adverse, artificial and injust world we are begetting our kids into??"
But the question is not what life or other people can do for us, but what we can do for them, especially for our kids.....??!!
Well, in a nutshell, let us treat them as what they really are and as to what they earn: as devine unspoiled essences, as souls on earth, as upgrowing virtuous angels who peacefully eventually stand up for their own dignity!
Let us educate them with as much LOVE, TRUST and GRACE as possible, let us teach them to listen to their inner voices of their heart, soul as well as quiet and good conscience in combination to their experience of faltering social decorums, egocentrisms and a good portion of media-sustained "autism" in the real world....
Our parental LOVE lies in its pure uncondionality, in the sense of help for mature self-help, i.e. helping your beloved ones to become what they can become (not what they shall become, since the latter is anchored in their own quiet conscience).
And love to someone else will be highly leveraged when you truly love yourSELF and firmly stand by you and your own mission and values.....
(see also my respective blogs on Self-Awareness and Self-Love)
Our parental TRUST implies deep respect in the ability of our kids to exert self-awareness (even feasible in younger ages below the age of 10), provided that we exemplify it through our own figurehead-habitus, i.e. being upright, honest, self-critic, apologetic, forgiving etc.
Finally, parental GRACE implies to carefully listen to the kids’ propensities and wishes and not only trying to understand the messages they try to convey to us, but mainly to comprehend and respect their underlying dreams, hopes and spiritual missions which drive them….
The same time, we should rely on our own innate spiritual light that our sound and mature virtues and decorums which we radiate as parents will always be the safe haven, anchor, lighthouse and the firm rock in potentially adverse seas deep within our kids' hearts.....
Let us teach them the spirit of meaning via loving dedication towards others.
Don't push them, PULL them - and then let loose (!) whilst you teach them re.spect, response.ibility, authenticity and integrity, compassion and kindness.....
This is certainly easier said than done in today's hyper-speed and overstimulation world, but it pays off when EXEMPLIFIED through our OWN parental life, i.e. our love to our partners, parents, friends and other beloved people, and through being able to instantly excuse ourselves with them for our own mishaps etc. etc.
Our kids are the essence, but we are their guiding light ! ;-))
And we can practice every single day in terms of conflict management, mediation, caring, sheltering etc. etc..
Wouldn't that be already a great start around the world? ;-))
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