Parenting

Parenting


Spend time and consciously engage with your children! Discover your child’s passions!

‘If you have young children, given them help, guidance, and protection to the best of your ability but even more important, give them space--space to be’. (Eckhart Tolle)


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Insights

Mindfulness

Be more mindful and consciously aware of how you engage, interact and converse with your child.

 Note your tone of voice.

When your child wants to talk to you and share something with you, stop everything and listen to them with 100% being present in that moment.

After I left the corporate world, I quickly realised how little ‘being present in the moment’ engagement I had with my children when I was working.

Looking back, my mind would always be pre-occupied with the work tasks, phone, analysis of work discussions and I would simply be on auto-pilot when interacting with the kids. 

I would simply nod my head to a question or give a half answer without being fully present in that discussion.

After I left, I felt a lot of guilt and regret about missed precious moments and set an intention that my time with the kids is precious, and I would make it a priority to engage fully with them.

I now find our precious interactions joyful, happy and light.

Doing meditation and raising my level of consciousness to a higher level has helped me:

1) be more patient

2) control my reactions when my children behave in a certain way

3)understand why they do certain things

4) be more kind and compassionate

However, this does not mean that parenting has now become smooth sailing. 

Every day brings new challenges as the children evolve and learn new things about life.

There are days where I resort to my old behaviour or actions or my tone of voice may be harsh (as my husband points out).

Don’t beat yourself up if this happens.

The important thing is you recognise what may have happened and set an intention to correct the following day.

Passions

Take the time to discover your child’s talents and passions.

Find out what they love and what ‘sets their hearts on fire’

Teach them to dream big, follow their passions and let them know they can make a difference now.

Take the time to notice the special talents or unique nature of the little people living in your house. 

 You never know you could have the next Einstein sitting at home.

Focus on their strengths and help them think of ways to improve their weaker areas.

Be careful not to focus too much on academics.

Be balanced in your approach. Help them learn how to interact with people positively and learn about the world.

Allow time for technology and gadgets but in a balanced way with awareness of the dangers.

Teach children about money and the finances world earlier than later.

Show kindness and compassion in your daily interaction

Space

Give space and time to children to just be free to play, be creative and imagine.

Refrain from filling each and every hour with pre-planned activities.

Encourage your child to follow their interests and not what you may have wanted to do as a child but never had the chance to do.

Don’t make them follow a path you wanted for yourself. 

Be aware and accept that children have their own journeys in life. It may not be clear to you but gently nudge them to find their own purpose and path in life.

Let them discover their talents in a gentle way.

Open them up to opportunities where practical to do so.

Introducing yoga and meditation into my life brought clarity to my role as a parent.

My role as a parent is to:

• coach, mentor, guide 

• to let my kids make their own mistakes and learn from them

• not impose my views and opinions

• help them learn from experience

• give them opportunities to develop their passions

• help them discover their strengths and talents

• follow their natural intuition

Emotions

Teach your children to be in tune with their feelings, mood and upsets.

Coach and mentor them to deal with emotional ups and downs.

Expose them to tools to help them control emotions through yoga 

Talk about gratitude, being positive, being kind, compassionate and what being a ‘big person’ means.

Our children are the future generations who will influence the evolution of humanity and the Earth.

 It is important we invest time in our children for the sake of the positive evolution of humanity.

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