How often do you ask your children to do something and they completely ignore you or give a straight forward "NO". Will you please clean up? Will you please finish your food? Will you share? Put on your shoes and get moving. Consequently, your aggravation elevates, your voice perhaps gets louder, you are late for work and things are not going the way you'd like. The morning is becoming a stressful one.
In this society, we go through life with the vibration of "hurry, hurry, hurry" and sometimes, we even parent from the space of hurry. Notice what happens to you emotionally when your child is not responding, notice what happens in your body when your child is talking back, notice what thoughts are running in your head when things are not going the way you would like. Just notice and be aware.
Now, imagine being centered and grounded to the planet and asking your child to do something from the space of calm, present and certainty and allow them a space to do it. Most children will resist you if you are rushing them. They don't like to be rushed, they are always in the present moment and don't care about the future. Ask them and wait few minutes. If your children is not cleaning the room, maybe he/she hasn't seen you do it. Create a game of cleaning and do it together. Children learn from mimicking our behaviours, not what we tell me to be true.
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