Raising an Authentic Child
by It’s important to raise awareness among the global adult community to mentor and raise the next generation with a social and environmental consciousness. It’s necessary to address the question of who we are and our authentic self so we can be examples of truth to our children and the children of society.
Then we shy back and think me?!…who me?! How can I help the children live an authentic positive life? How can I teach children to participate in restoring our earth? How can I teach compassion and love for everyone?
I am not qualified! I cannot be a teacher of authenticity when I am on my very own journey to master this very virtue?
Or…can I?
As we consider our participation of exploring the possibility of reaching out to our future generation that inner voice keeps arising and choking us with thoughts of impossibility.
Aren’t we all mothers for a new earth and isn’t it our responsibility collectively to nurture and usher in a conscious awakened generation? We look and constantly see and feel overwhelmed by the dire emotions that flood society these days…the economy, the environment,health care, education…it is endless. Can we afford to sit and watch and do nothing?
We are each just one person but we collectively are a family and we are able to re-build and re-construct our home, our society and our world. It only takes one person to believe and to say “I can do this”, I can be authentic and I will teach while I am learning another to be authentic.
We must raise that inner authentic child within us as we teach our children the importance of dreaming and visioning and having a positive outlook on life. We must believe as we teach them faith in a higher power, God or the universe, whatever your spirit believes to be true. We must take small steps every single day, every single moment at the very places we are placed in our existence to play our small part. Yes, pick that trash, be mindful of re-cycling, and take time to be joyful and playful, and give and share what you have with those who have less. So what if you can only give five dollars this month to a charity, this could be several meals to a child 3900 miles from you. So what if you can only tithe and give community hours this week, you are providing valuable help to an organization near you. So do it and share the experience with a child and allow them to learn from you….
We must take our children, or our children’s children or our neighbor’s children through this very journey we are taking. We do it together and so we teach each other and our future generation that it is possible to heal, to connect humanely with each other and that we don’t have to keep listening to the doom and gloom being reported everyday but instead we focus on our little positive world in which we thrive and this happiness will soon osmosis out and touch others and then it will spread wider and wider throughout our global family.
I challenge you to meet yourself and ask those questions I listed above and take it from there. Something is better than just sitting and doing absolutely NOTHING!
So..here is the deal…in the beginning…there is intention…there is YOU…we have to become authentic to nurture an authentic new generation…one child at a time….
Be the CHANGE that you WISH to SEE in the WORLD….Mahatma Gandhi
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