The Conscious Parent

basic being.
Whether our children are artistic, academicians, risk takers, into
sports, musical, dreamers, or introverts, it need have no bearing on how
we regard them. On a grander scale, it isn’t our place to approve or
disapprove of whether our children are religious, gay, the marrying kind,
ambitious, or manifest any number of other traits. While a child’s
behavior is subject to modification that brings the child more closely in
line with its essential being, their core must be unconditionally
celebrated.
When our children choose a religion other than ours, a different
profession than we dreamed of for them, are homosexual in orientation,
or marry someone out of their race, how we respond is a barometer of
how conscious we are. Are we able to respond to them with the
realization that they have the right to manifest their inner being in their
unique way?
Our children need to grow up with the awareness that who they are is
worthy of celebration. Of course, parents will say they do celebrate their
children. After all, don’t they celebrate their children’s birthdays, take
them to the movies, buy them gifts, spend fortunes at the toy store? If
this isn’t celebrating a child’s being, then what is?
Without our realizing, we so often endorse our children for their
actions, rather than for just being. Celebrating our children’s being
means allowing them to exist without the snares of our expectations. It’s
to revel in their existence without them having to do a single thing, prove
anything, or accomplish any kind of goal.
No matter how it manifests, our children’s essence is pure and loving.