Inspiring young children
Inspiring the younger generation connects back to inspiring ourselves through authenticity, taking responsibility for ourselves, and being honest in our day-to-day lives. As adults, we have the awareness that we can make choices from a mature state of being.
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. - W.E.B Dubois
How to be a balanced parent without over-parenting
Children are delicate creatures that cling on to their caregivers. This is where the adult leads by example. Acting from a higher vibration of love, you release any energies of victimhood or fear-based living, as these will negatively affect your child immensely and will additionally program them with these karmic energies as a path for them to follow later on in their own adult lives. The ideal way of parenting at the root is someone who is wholeheartedly involved in their children’s upbringing without projecting parental wounds from personal unhealed traumas: One who respects the child’s individual process while inspiring them to always learn more about their own desires.
Jeff is a father of 3 girls who shows inspiration by speaking words of positivity to them. He says, “I want my girls to grow up in the world feeling whole. I use words like Boss, Princess, and Leader to inspire their own creativity to flourish and achieve happiness and success”. Jeff strives to be a parent who is on the authoritative side as well. He feels this creates a cultivating and rich environment for his kids to experience so that they can become naturally motivated for the future.
“These “authoritative parents” appear to hit the sweet spot of parental involvement and generally raise children who do better academically, psychologically and socially than children whose parents are either permissive and less involved, or controlling and more involved.” ~ NYtimes.com
Amanda is a mom of two girls who are close in age, and she shows her children inspiration through her everyday actions. She experienced other moms criticizing her and how she chooses to raise her kids and is well aware that she needs to detach from those surroundings as they are not supportive to her decisions. As a parent, sometimes people will love judging your unique style of parenting, for example, if you choose to co-sleep rather than crib-sleep. If you cannot agree to disagree, simple step back; this journey is a personal one for each individual to experience on their own terms, and as long as the child is happy, safe and healthy, align with the mother’s views, or step away from her field so she can continue to wholeheartedly parent her children as she pleases.
Jenny, a mom of three kids, has to plan out time for her children accordingly. She has two boys and a girl; the middle child, who she says "sometimes feels rejected and left out”, is something she struggled with for some time. She realized that her daughter, aged 12, is more sensitive than her boys, who are aged 9 and 15, and that her daughter needed extra attention so she sought out to find inspiring resources for her emotional and mental growth. Jenny said, "..the first thing was making her feel she mattered, that she can freely express herself in any artistic manner. Since she loved going ice skating, I signed her up for lessons and she started being more confident". Jenny is a beautiful example of offering inspirational resources by providing her daughter the space to be herself and uncover her own sense of self worth through participating in various artistic endeavors.
Chris, a father of 5 children, ages ranging from 5-15, says, “I am becoming aware just how much my children pick up little things from me. I don’t want to shove my own insecurities onto them through projections of my own inner wounding from childhood, so I have to be mindful of that constantly. My goal is to raise my children with my wife as a true partner and team so they feel strong in their sense of self first and foremost”.
When it comes to inspiring your children or your own gentle inner child (or anyone you interact with for that matter!), the foundation for introducing inspiration-based resources into your daily life always lead back to honest expression and authenticity. We all go through waves and cycles of personal growth, and what creates healthy balanced living all stems back to inner guidance. What is your heart telling you to explore deeper about yourself at this moment of your journey as a human? What inspires you today? Whether it is helping a cause close to you, writing a novel you’ve desired to do since childhood, or learning to play an instrument of your choosing, do something, anything that truly speaks to you and leads you towards soul freedom and joy. Then go along and discover the many ways which you can connect to others through your own sense of inspiration to expand upon your person sense of unity and community.
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