I thought I would share a discussion I had with my 10 year old son this morning since I'm sure many of us are traversing this journey with children.
Every morning my son and I walk at the beach and we choose topics to discuss. We discuss absolutely anything and everything and I often find myself learning from his perspective as much as he learns from mine.
This morning I brought up the idea of energy and how we are all connected - from the shells on the beach to the moon setting in the sky and everything in between. I explained to my son how our beliefs, our actions and who we are can have an effect on the entire universe and he understood this as 'finding the balance'. He said that if things are out of balance then the universe will work to bring things back to balance and I agreed. We talked about this current chaos and the charge that it may create with all of the unseeing people compared to the seeing people and the importance of us doing all the things that can be done to bring back balance and also to prepare for what the universe may have in store for us.
I explained things in simple terms, light and dark, good and evil and we discussed what might be considered one or the other, from food choices to activities and choosing the people we hang out with. My son is a typical 10 year old and he wants to play video games and watch silly programs just like his friends do. I restrict these activities a lot but I also feel that this is his journey and he needs to make his choices for some things so we talked about the darkness in the video games & on the screen compared to the light in activities like meditation and playing his guitar. It was interesting to hear him acknowledge how the creative activities make him feel compared to the screen based activities and he recognises how the 'dark' pulls him in and he sees it in his friends who do not have restrictions around screen time and how their emotional state is much more 'squashed' and sad.
We also talked about when humanity becomes too chaotic, the universe may well bring about events that will change the World to bring back the balance and that no matter what happens, it doesn't matter where you are but who you are and your experience will be very different depending on the work you've done on yourself, how open you are to changes and how aware you are of what is going on right now.
My son meditates for about 10 minutes every day and has done for the past 3 years. He also practices EFT when he's distressed and the difference between his emotional state and his ability to articulate and observe compared to that of his friends is remarkable. For meditation we use the Calm app or Jo Dispenza's childrens guided meditation.
We talk a lot about food choices and at home we are Paleo/keto and all organic but I know he gorges on peanut butter sandwiches and juice when he's at friends houses - again, he has to make his own decisions with the information he has and at 10 years of age, there are many lessons to learn.
We discussed that his life journey is his to have and that his friends also have their own journey, that we are all learning at our own pace and that everything that we experience is a lesson. We also discussed that if we are doing the work, diet, meditation, seeing, learning then the people around us can also benefit since we are all connected by energy and that the more we can help others, the more we can find the Universal balance.
As a mother I feel like these discussions are so important and I wonder how other parents on this forum are exploring them with children?
Every morning my son and I walk at the beach and we choose topics to discuss. We discuss absolutely anything and everything and I often find myself learning from his perspective as much as he learns from mine.
This morning I brought up the idea of energy and how we are all connected - from the shells on the beach to the moon setting in the sky and everything in between. I explained to my son how our beliefs, our actions and who we are can have an effect on the entire universe and he understood this as 'finding the balance'. He said that if things are out of balance then the universe will work to bring things back to balance and I agreed. We talked about this current chaos and the charge that it may create with all of the unseeing people compared to the seeing people and the importance of us doing all the things that can be done to bring back balance and also to prepare for what the universe may have in store for us.
I explained things in simple terms, light and dark, good and evil and we discussed what might be considered one or the other, from food choices to activities and choosing the people we hang out with. My son is a typical 10 year old and he wants to play video games and watch silly programs just like his friends do. I restrict these activities a lot but I also feel that this is his journey and he needs to make his choices for some things so we talked about the darkness in the video games & on the screen compared to the light in activities like meditation and playing his guitar. It was interesting to hear him acknowledge how the creative activities make him feel compared to the screen based activities and he recognises how the 'dark' pulls him in and he sees it in his friends who do not have restrictions around screen time and how their emotional state is much more 'squashed' and sad.
We also talked about when humanity becomes too chaotic, the universe may well bring about events that will change the World to bring back the balance and that no matter what happens, it doesn't matter where you are but who you are and your experience will be very different depending on the work you've done on yourself, how open you are to changes and how aware you are of what is going on right now.
My son meditates for about 10 minutes every day and has done for the past 3 years. He also practices EFT when he's distressed and the difference between his emotional state and his ability to articulate and observe compared to that of his friends is remarkable. For meditation we use the Calm app or Jo Dispenza's childrens guided meditation.
We talk a lot about food choices and at home we are Paleo/keto and all organic but I know he gorges on peanut butter sandwiches and juice when he's at friends houses - again, he has to make his own decisions with the information he has and at 10 years of age, there are many lessons to learn.
We discussed that his life journey is his to have and that his friends also have their own journey, that we are all learning at our own pace and that everything that we experience is a lesson. We also discussed that if we are doing the work, diet, meditation, seeing, learning then the people around us can also benefit since we are all connected by energy and that the more we can help others, the more we can find the Universal balance.
As a mother I feel like these discussions are so important and I wonder how other parents on this forum are exploring them with children?
– read them with a critical eye. I think this realization of "not everything they say in the newspaper is true" started several years ago, when our kids started asking about the low fat food in the school; we've always eaten animal fats in the family (no bad fats) so they started wondering about that. So, I explained in my best strategic way how producers of margarine and other unhealthy fats want to promote this fear of fat, because they want to sell their products, and that there's unfortunately 'bad guys' in the real world, too, who want to fool us. My son later surprised me by reading ca half of a book on diet and health that I had shown him (I think he was 7 or 8 at this point).
I did not know better how to reply. I don't want or don't know how to explain too many things in a simple way at once, let alone to form opinions in him he can later on share with family or friends that will alienate him.
