Parenting Spiritually
A comprehensive approach to parenting that will help parents from pre-conception to adulthood. It is parenting not based upon the way you may have been parented, but based on what your child needs at different points in time.
Private Coaching sessions, Small group coaching sessions, Parenting workshops
Parenting is the most complex job people face, with the least training and assistance to accomplish it.
Traditionally parenting is undertaken on an instructional model, that is, the parent tells the child what to do because the parent believes they know better. The spiritual component of parenting spiritually introduces the component of parenting through choice.
This is an entirely new approach to parenting which will allow the child to better achieve what it came to earth to do and to relieve the parent of a lot of the pressure of parenting. The paradox of parenting is that it is accepted how important it is, but so little attention is paid to it and so little is taught about it. Parenting is not understood.
To parent spiritually is opting to be in the life of a child to reinforce the child’s development, to help it deal with the grind of daily living, to act as an adjunct to its own powers, and to help steer it towards a journey of ‘higher purpose,’ without unnecessarily meddling in its affairs.
It is self-evident from this definition that parenting is much more than telling a child what to do based on what you were told to do. It is much more about developing the independence of the child to live their life with the guidance of the parent and taking into account that each child has a specific spiritual purpose for being on earth this time.
This means that each child has specific things they need to learn so as to meet their purpose for being here. Effective parenting quickens the development of the skills from which a child needs to learn. To fully grasp this, a parent needs to understand that the learning their child will need during their life will be different from that of the parent. In understanding this, a parent can liberate themselves from the notion that they need to have all of the answers for their child throughout the child’s life, and that these answers follow the model of the parent's parenting.
Parenting is the most complex job people face, with the least training and assistance to accomplish it.
Traditionally parenting is undertaken on an instructional model, that is, the parent tells the child what to do because the parent believes they know better. The spiritual component of parenting spiritually introduces the component of parenting through choice.
This is an entirely new approach to parenting which will allow the child to better achieve what it came to earth to do and to relieve the parent of a lot of the pressure of parenting. The paradox of parenting is that it is accepted how important it is, but so little attention is paid to it and so little is taught about it. Parenting is not understood.
To parent spiritually is opting to be in the life of a child to reinforce the child’s development, to help it deal with the grind of daily living, to act as an adjunct to its own powers, and to help steer it towards a journey of ‘higher purpose,’ without unnecessarily meddling in its affairs.
It is self-evident from this definition that parenting is much more than telling a child what to do based on what you were told to do. It is much more about developing the independence of the child to live their life with the guidance of the parent and taking into account that each child has a specific spiritual purpose for being on earth this time.
This means that each child has specific things they need to learn so as to meet their purpose for being here. Effective parenting quickens the development of the skills from which a child needs to learn. To fully grasp this, a parent needs to understand that the learning their child will need during their life will be different from that of the parent. In understanding this, a parent can liberate themselves from the notion that they need to have all of the answers for their child throughout the child’s life, and that these answers follow the model of the parent's parenting.
How Parenting Spiritually can help your children
Consider the helpless infant, unable to fend for itself. A parent must attend to all of their needs in this early stage. Suddenly the parent lessens this behaviour and starts to tell the child what to do. When the child starts to do differently from what the parent told them to do, the parent overrides the child’s choice with an instruction.
At this stage the parent is saying to the child, no matter what you think you want to do, I know better, just do it my way. If you do I will reward you (including through the lack of admonition) and if you don’t, I will punish you (including through raised voice or exclusion).
This offers the child no choices. It is exacerbated when the parent tells the child they are ‘good’ because they have done what the parent wanted them to do.
The outcome of this style of parenting is that the child learns to be a good child by forgoing their own needs in order to please and satisfy their parents. Invariably, this spreads to other authority figures in their childhood such as relatives and teachers.
The child grows up without an independent voice for their own thoughts and a belief that somehow their own needs will be met throughout life just by pleasing and satisfying others. This plays out in adult relationships and unless the child changes in adulthood, will never result in a deep ongoing, and loving relationship.
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At this stage the parent is saying to the child, no matter what you think you want to do, I know better, just do it my way. If you do I will reward you (including through the lack of admonition) and if you don’t, I will punish you (including through raised voice or exclusion).
This offers the child no choices. It is exacerbated when the parent tells the child they are ‘good’ because they have done what the parent wanted them to do.
The outcome of this style of parenting is that the child learns to be a good child by forgoing their own needs in order to please and satisfy their parents. Invariably, this spreads to other authority figures in their childhood such as relatives and teachers.
The child grows up without an independent voice for their own thoughts and a belief that somehow their own needs will be met throughout life just by pleasing and satisfying others. This plays out in adult relationships and unless the child changes in adulthood, will never result in a deep ongoing, and loving relationship.
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Parenting Spiritually course
This Parenting Spiritually Course is a comprehensive approach to parenting that will help parents from pre-conception to well into their child’s adulthood. It is parenting children in a new way, not based upon the way you may have been parented, but based on what your child needs at different points in time.
Coaching parents using the parenting spiritually information can take place with individuals or groups at all stages of the parenting cycle. The purpose of coaching is to deal with specific issues parents are facing with their children.
Parenting spiritually coaches naturally fill the void of information and support available to pre-parents and parents at all stages of the parenting cycle, providing parents with an ongoing system of support and knowledge.
Day 1 What is parenting?
Day 2 Parenting from 3 months to pre-teenager
Day 3 Parenting from 13 - 21 years
Coaching parents using the parenting spiritually information can take place with individuals or groups at all stages of the parenting cycle. The purpose of coaching is to deal with specific issues parents are facing with their children.
Parenting spiritually coaches naturally fill the void of information and support available to pre-parents and parents at all stages of the parenting cycle, providing parents with an ongoing system of support and knowledge.
Day 1 What is parenting?
- Different models of parenting
- The concept of time in parenting
- Setting expectations for the child
- Parenting for the child, not the parent
- Gender issues in parenting
- The parenting cycle from preconception to 3 months of age
- Practical exercises
Day 2 Parenting from 3 months to pre-teenager
- Being a step-parent
- Loss of a parent through a marriage break up
- The price of non-independence
- The differing roles of the father and mother in this period
- Impact of spiritual values in this period
- Practical exercises
Day 3 Parenting from 13 - 21 years
- Influences on a child 13 - 21 years
- Impact of spiritual values during the period 12 - 21 years
- Practical exercises
- Two stages of further independence
- The effect of being 27 years
- Impact of spiritual values during the period of 27 years
- What it means to be a grandparent
- Seasonal effects on children
- Practical exercises
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