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It seems like there is a kind of theme being created in these “Tiny Tips for Moms and Dads”, and I do believe there is.  When you think of our responsibility as parents, a large part of what we are responsible for is nurturing, guiding, and disciplining our children.  This role that we take on as parents involves modeling and supporting what we know as adults will be most beneficial to the well-being, happiness, personal success, and health of our children as adults. Let me interject that the term “discipline” is not something negative but is in fact derived from the word disciple -which means to follow.  That is therefore the act of modeling what is appropriate, good, wholesome, just, compassionate, truthful, loving, kind, and the ability to show grace and understanding to others. 

It calls us as parents to work daily and sometimes what might seem tirelessly, to be our higher self. It is not only unrealistic to think that we can be our “highest selves” all the time, and it is important to assure our children that we don’t expect that of them in turn.  We show them that there are times we -as our elders use to say- “Are outside of ourselves”, and that we have to use the “re-set button” sometimes to “Come back to ourselves”.  We are not perfection, and we don’t expect that of our children.  We are merely trying to make sure that they have the tools they will need to be “Happy, Healthy, and Whole”, in their life.

This world that they are facing is not what we expected and as “Indigo” children, it is not what they dreamed for!  They will have challenges that will require that they are strong in their convictions, and that the principles of those convictions, will be grounded in what is ethical, moral, and just.  Stepping away from all the ideological chaos and distractions, we know on a deeper spiritual level, what is right and what is wrong.  We know what is just and unjust!  We know what is judgmental and what is not!  We know what is truth and what are bare face lies! We have to show our children that the tool of discernment is a vital gift to protect them. 

We want them to be contributing members of society that will help in re-directing this world into the world that they had dreamed for.  Yes, we have work to do as parents, but it is so worth it!  In guiding our children through the maze of childhood, the side benefit for us is that we are also awakened to those behavioral characteristics that could serve us better.  Those aspects of ourselves that we allowed to be diminished by other people or circumstances in life.  This affords us the opportunity to be re-birthed into our own “divine identity” and as a result our children benefit from who we are in our authentic selves.