Empower Your Children
Raising a child is more than providing them with a home, food, warmth and clothes. It is also teaching them the life skills necessary to empower them and to help them be able to grow up and have rewarding lives. Empowering literally means to put in power or to cause power. So what can you do to Empower Your Children? Here are a few steps:
Have Faith in Your Children
Tell your children that you believe in them. For example, if they tell you that they are not sure whether they will be able to pass their maths exam although they have tried studying, tell them that you believe in them and that you’re sure they will do their best in that exam. By saying this to your children, you are empowering them to keep trying. Sounds simple doesn’t it? The only problem is that many parents don’t do it enough.
Get Them Interested
Increase their self awareness and get them interested in the issues that they encounter everyday. Ask them about how their day was and remember to listen to what they have to say. If something happened, you could ask them how they feel about it and what are they going to do about it. This is a great way of helping your child verbalise and comprehend their feelings. They are also able to articulate their opinions better.
Let Go
You need to remember to let go. Fight the impulse to do everything for your child. By doing that, you are actually further handicapping your child. So give them the space. If you just do everything for them, they will never learn. For example, you asked them to tuck in their bed, but the bed wasn’t done neatly. Tell them that it was a good effort and show them how to do it neatly. You also need to give them their own space to solve their own problem. You can help them but don’t solve it for them. Instead, why don’t both of you sit down together and try to solve the problem together?
Keep Working on Clearing Your Own Issues
Your children will only ever grow to the point which you allow them to. That point will never be any further along than where you have reached within yourself in your own development. If you want to have Superstar kids, then you have to do the work on yourself to clear the damage done to you by your own parents and that done by others along the way. Most parents knew no better and didn’t do the work on themselves to make their kids’ lives any easier. But you know better, because you’ve read this article. So don’t think that your children are the reason for the difficulties between you. Often it’s because of the things that you do as to why your relationship with them isn’t the best. Fix yourself first.
Get the Help that You Need
In order to clear your trigger points, you need to release the clusters of built up emotions that are locked into your emotional body. It is suggested that you work with a Bodywork therapist or someone who does Kinesiology in order to clear the trauma and pain out of your own emotional field. The other option is to work with the sacred plant medicines if you want to really face and clear your trigger points. When you work with this medicine or these healing modalities, you won’t get triggered by your kids behaviour and take it out on them. It is not their fault that you’ve had the experiences that you’ve had in life. Don’t make your own pain their responsibility.
In conclusion, remember all of these steps, because you are empowering a child today to become the future adult of tomorrow. So what are you waiting for?
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