The Conscious Parent

I accept my child is different I accept my child is quiet I accept my child can be stubborn I accept m ...

I accept my child finds it hard to sit still I accept my child has their own way of being in the world ...

can we raise independent, autonomous children if we ourselves aren’t independent and autonomous? How can we raise ...

I accept my ego I accept my yearning for consciousness (even though I often sabotage myself when I am ...

are, not from a place in our imagination, we are positioned to help them shape themselves in line wit ...

T CHAPTER 4 A Blow to Our Ego o give your children the total acceptance they deserve will expose you t ...

them to provide ourselves with a sense of worth, and use them to magnify our illusion of our influence i ...

control, domination, sadness, anxiety, or even a positive emotion such as happiness takes over and o ...

his corporate career doesn’t begin to compensate for the joy of spirit and sense of purpose he felt when onst ...

grow up true to themselves. If we free ourselves from our ego and simply observe our children’s development a ...

Although the manner in which ego manifests is different in each person, there are common patterns the ego fol ...

entangled with our children’s behavior. When they behave in a manner that’s out of the norm, we feel p ...

her when they departed, ruining her son’s revelry and shaming him in front of his buddies, who were spending ...

really need to learn is that perfection is an ideal of the foolish. The goal isn’t to be flawlessly “pe ...

ever purposely acted silly in front of her son, dancing and singing, or did something out of her element ...

attending such a “substandard” school, especially since they were graduates of Yale and Columbia respect ...

willing to foster the internal space in them that will enable them to flourish free of your need ...

breaks out of the family’s mold, choosing to be who they want to be, doing what they want to do, ...

our enemy. Unlike the teen I have just described, I am reminded of a twentyyear- old who had been the p ...

stealing, and may go so far as to stop communicating with us. To the degree we are able to let go of our ...