Dear Ones,
How do you treat the children in your life? What is your attitude toward them? The children with whom you associate are your lifeline to the future of your family, your society and your culture. Are you planting seeds of greatness in those children or are you trying to make them smaller versions of you, in all your limitations, beliefs and past-focused thinking?
Children are brought into the world to be the way-showers of the succeeding generations. They are not intended to become younger versions of their parents but many parents attempt to do just that. How much freedom did your parents give you to grow and to become what you would? Have you ever longed for the opportunity to stretch beyond the vision that your parents might have had for you, or for themselves, to see what lies beyond what you could see?
This, then, is the gift that you can give the children in your Life. Not just the ones that you have born in your body or sired yourself, but also those who are stepchildren, nieces and nephews, neighbors and godchildren, friends, family, children of the world. Give the gift of a dream to the children who are on Planet Earth today.
If they are your children, what model are you giving them? Are you continuing to expand your own horizons, continuing to learn and explore new ideas, trying new experiences, meeting new people? Isn’t this what you would wish for your children to do in their own lives? You must model this for them.
Do you find yourself always correcting your children, or holding them up to some standard, perhaps the one to which your parents held you up, and judging them to be somehow deficient because they don’t meet those standards? Do you feel that you always know what is best for them without allowing them to speak and to discuss their feelings with you?
We ask all of these questions of you because the way that you treat the children in your life demonstrates how you treat the new ideas, creative solutions and novel products or processes that you encounter in your life. If you treat your children as the teachers that they really are, coming into the world with fresh new ideas about things you considered fixed in concrete, then you can grow through your experience of the world through the eyes of the children. If, on the other hand, you believe that you have all the answers and they have only questions, then you rob yourself of the delight to be had in seeing through children’s eyes the wonders that are around you. You cheat yourself of the possibilities for growth t hat are inherent in having young eyes size up a situation with a fresh perspective. You deny the world the ‘new’ and condemn it to repeat the errors of the past, limiting the thinking of those who might, instead, expand thought into new realms of consciousness.
New ideas are brought to human consciousness with every minute of human existence. Those who refuse to consider that a new idea has merit doom humanity to live in an unconsciousness that is filled with darkness, with little hope of the Light. But those who are willing to be led by the children with new ideas, new thoughts, new beliefs are assisting all of humanity in the evolution of consciousness and will find themselves living an expanded life.
Listen to the children. Suspend your limited thinking and expand what you believe so that you can see a new reality. This is the excitement of the times. This is the gift of the children to the adults of th e world. Step into the wonder with them and let them hold your hand to lead you to more Light.
And so it is.
________________________
Please feel free to re-post this article and share it with your readers and followers. All I ask is that you include the following information when you do:



MUSE-INGS: Where the Children Lead
September 7, 2011 — RosemaryWhere the children lead, we must learn to follow.
It’s an interesting concept but we’ve heard it before. We also need to heed it now.
The children are trying to tell us something about the world in which they wish to live. Have you talked to a young person about the environment lately? They accept recycling as a way of life. They care about trees and forests and animals that are endangered. They care about football and baseball and shopping at the mall, too, but they are tuned into their environments and are following the intuitive guidance they receive about what will keep the planet safe for them to enjoy and what will destroy it.
Children also care about others. There are some amazing stories about young folks who hear about a problem, do a little research, start a lemonade stand or take up a collection, and do good works with what they have earned. These kids have something to teach us.
First, they listen. Really listen. And do we do that? Do we really listen to what is going on around us or do we leap to conclusions based on our pre-conceived notions or political perspective or religious views? Are we willing to ask a whole bunch of questions until we get enough answers to form an opinion, or do we form an opinion and stop asking questions?
When our granddaughter was 7 it was a national election year in the US and she listened to presidential debates with the candidates, asked questions, and then decided which candidate she thought would be the best president. She really did sit through long debates and ask cogent questions. [I found it hard to sit through those tedious debates!] But she was astonished to learn t hat she could not vote in the election because she was too young. She was outraged! I did take her to the polling place on election day so that she could wave a poster of her preferred candidate, about the only thing that a 7-year-old can do about an election.
But what was she trying to show us? She modeled how an educated electorate participates in a democracy. She took time to ask questions. She reviewed information. Do we do that? In how many situations do we do the research, ask the questions and, most importantly, weigh information before we form an opinion that a hurricane couldn’t move us to change?
What about the child inside of you? Do you listen to the voice of that scared, timid, insecure child or do you ignore the voice? Maybe there is a better way to work with your inner child than to try to shut him/her up. Perhaps really listening and then offering reassurance would lay to rest the fears instead of allowing them to operate within you at an unconscious level. With many of the clients with whom I work this is an issue where we focus the coaching. Buried inside each of us are the children that we once were, the ones who reacted to the parenting that we received, who were told a worldview to which they must subscribe. But also buried within us are the children who were dreamers, the ones who knew that this world could be a better place and who wanted to be the ones to bring that better world into existence.
‘You may say I’m a dreamer, But I’m not the only one.’ Remember that song – Imagine, by John Lennon? Let’s return to being the dreamers that our inner children were. Let’s allow the children around us to have and to pursue their dreams for a better world. Let’s listen, really listen, to the messages from all the children, inner and outer, as they lead us into that better world. And let’s commit to support the dreams that all people have.
________________________
Please feel free to re-post this article and share it with your readers and followers. All I ask is that you include the following information when you do: