The Conscious Parent
Transforming Ourselves empowering Our Children
Editorial Review
To parent perfectly is a mirage. There is no ideal parent and no ideal child. The Conscious Parent underscores the challenges that are a natural part of raising a child, fully understanding that, as parents, each of us tries the best we can with the resources we have. Thus, the objective of this book is to illumine how we might identify and capitalize on the emotional and spiritual lessons inherent in the parenting process, so that we can use them for our own development, which in turn will result in the ability to parent more effectively. As part of this approach, we are asked to open ourselves up to the possibility that our imperfections may actually be our most valuable tools for change.
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Wisdom to Share
No matter our age, the word “no” is still the hardest word to hear. Yet we utter this word countless times a day to our children without regard for how this must feel to them.
It isn’t easy to reflect back a person’s feelings and thoughts without contaminating them with our own.
The minute our children try to talk to us, we tend to jump in to advise them, critique them, admonish them.
No matter our age, the word “no” is still the hardest word to hear. Yet we utter this word countless times a day to our children without regard for how this must feel to them.
Unless we allow our children to become comfortable with quiet aloneness, they become strangers to themselves, alienated from their essence.
Children come to believe that only the grand and the fabulous are to be noticed and applauded, and hence constantly pursue “bigger” and “better.”
When we deny our children’s ordinariness, we teach them to be enthralled only by exaggerations of life.
A parent who was denied the experience of ordinariness during childhood will be unable to tolerate their child’s ordinariness.
When we grow up feeling we aren’t good enough, we displace this feeling of inadequacy onto the world around us.
No longer in the intermediate years one should be the ever-powerful parent, but must instead become an ever-present partner.
During these intermediate years of middle school, our children’s sense of who they are undergoes a dramatic overhaul.
The middle school years are a time of tremendous transition, often painful and wrenching for us to witness.
Our Children need to know that we trust them implicitly because we see them as fundamentally trustworthy.
Because very few really trust the wisdom of life, people tend to project their lack of trust onto their children.
When our children are permitted to feel their feelings, they are able to release them amazingly quickly.
If we want our children to master their emotions, we have to teach them to surrender to what they are experiencing.
Can you imagine how it must feel for a child to be starved of our approval and fearful of our disapproval?
It’s so important to consciously free ourselves from our unconscious state and move toward an enlightened way of being.
It is crucial as a parent to realize you aren’t raising a “mini me,” but a spirit throbbing with its own signature.
A single misplaced response can shrivel a child’s spirit, whereas the right comment can encourage them to soar.
When we teach our children to find the emotional lesson behind every experience, we teach them to own their life with zest.
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