My true belief is that a better world relies in the way we raise our children. This space summarizes my own journey: the years at the university, the countless discussions with colleagues and classmates; the great experience of being able to prove all those theories and ideas working in a preschool in a foreign country, together with my own inner development and mostly the hope for a better world that starts in those early years are today the goal of this space.
"La crisis de la educación no es una crisis más entre
las muchas crisis que tenemos, sino que la educación está en el centro del
problema. El mundo está en una crisis profunda porque no tenemos una educación
para la conciencia. Tenemos una educación que en cierto modo le está robando a
la gente su conciencia, su tiempo y su vida."
One of the principles to practice in Axness´book Parenting for peace is EXAMPLE:
Be a good parent! Seek and cultivate your benevolence, inner nobility and knowing authority. Find the queen or king in you. According to Axness a child needs to sense a dignity about her parents and their attitude toward parenting (and thus, to her).
"Children taker our cues about how to treat themselves, others and the environment -with compassionate care or mindless disregard. They absorb the inner and outer atmosphere we create." Axness 2012:299
Am I worthy of my child´s unquestioning imitation?
Steiner, founder of Waldorf education said that the young child is an eye, taking in everything, registering everything, without analysis. They don´t so much hear our words, but pick up everything else. And they imitate everything (Axness 2012:297).
We are all good at something. Whatever it is that is a source of confidence for you, show it to your child! Allow him or her to see a deep engagement and passion in what you do and learn from your example.
"Kids pick up and sense what is far beyond the things we yammer at them. they pick up the truth that lies beneath, behind and before our words" Axness (2012:298).
The quality of every gesture percolates into the psyche of our child points Axness, they see the world through our eyes. What kind of world are we showing them?
