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Why child-led learning?
As I shifted my perspective on life and raising children, my thoughts on our educational system also drastically changed. Even though I grew up going to public school myself and won’t deny that I had some great experiences there. I am not saying that there is something particularly wrong with the western educational system as I do believe it was created with the right intentions. However I believe those intentions came from our collective unconsciousness. The awareness of the possibility that forcing an education diminishes the child’s own natural curiosity of the world around them, is simply not there. As well as the utilization of fear-based discipline that is not…
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What is a Spiritual Awakening?
First we should clear up the idea that the word “Spiritual” is or should only be associated with religion. Rather defining something “Spiritual” as all-encompassing, that what is beyond anything physical or material in our existence. A Spiritual Awakening is the crumbling down of the “ego” and reconnecting with the Higher Self or Spirit. The “ego” is the identity that we have created over the years, layer upon layer through our experiences in life to keep us “safe” from perceived threats and through the mundane conditioning since birth. It is the part we call the self or “I”. As we go through such an awakening, which is in a sense…
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A new perspective creating a new approach to parenting.
Through introspection and the changed perspectives on life and how we all have been living, comes also the question of how we can integrate this new knowledge into our parenting journey. The traditional way of parenting, that many of us have known as the only way to raise a child, has been passed on from many generations. It is a hierarchical and authoritarian way where the child is seen as inherently incapable of growth and achievement by himself and often a great deal of control is used to get a child to behave in a way that is acceptable according to their parents beliefs and they are shaped to fit…
Raising children and living life intuitively
