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    Guardians of the Vision: Parenting for the Birthright Of Potential
    Guardians of the Vision: Parenting for the Birthright Of Potential
    Guardians of the Vision: Parenting for the Birthright Of Potential
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    Guardians of the Vision: Parenting for the Birthright Of Potential

    By Anita Allen, Louise Lebrun, Naomi Irons-Hill and

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    More than a book about parenting, this is a book about human potential and the choice to move forward and evolve beyond the limitations of our past. Parenting is something that is passed from generation to generation, replicating patterns of thought and behavior, often completely out of our awareness. This book and the inspiring authors who openly share their experiences and insights offer new information and a new paradigm for parenting grounded in a WEL-Systems perspective. They are the Guardians of the Vision for future generations and they invite you to join their ranks. The choices we make now will shape the future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateNov 1, 2016
    ISBN9781988270005
    Guardians of the Vision: Parenting for the Birthright Of Potential

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      Guardians of the Vision - Anita Allen

      There are days – today is one of them - when I wonder what on earth was I thinking when I conceived of this book project. I am no expert by the usual standard. I have no degrees, no pedigree in child psychology. I only have the ‘street cred’ that comes from raising three boys - and in many circles, that would be less than impressive. So far today I have broken up at least one epic skirmish over toys, attended a parent-teacher meeting about my son’s sudden urge to blurt out penis during circle time and, at this very minute, my offspring are exuberantly thundering through my office like a herd of stampeding buffalo. Somebody call ‘Nanny 911’!

      But wait a minute! Even if the bespectacled nanny were to arrive cloaked in her cape and superior manners she would have nothing revolutionary to offer me. In fact, she would be bringing more of what is already available. In these days of reality TV and hip Internet sites, there is a dazzling array of information about how to parent more effectively. Even though this information looks different on the outside, drill into it and you will discover that not much has changed in the conversation about parenting for decades.

      All the information that we have available to us on the topic of parenting has been created within a worldview that has some fundamental ‘laws’. These are the suppositions we have about reality based on concepts that have continued unquestioned into our modern day life; in spite of mounting scientific evidence that continually illustrates that this worldview is incomplete and far too narrow to accommodate our human experience.

      We have always seemed to favor the familiar even when it ceases to serve us. Change - particularly sweeping fundamental change - terrifies us. We have a choice to free ourselves from outdated worldviews and restrictive dogma but many of us don’t know it.

      Generation after generation has vowed to improve on our methods of parenting. The best we have been able to do is to choose based on our own experiences of being parented what we will continue to do - or not do - to our own children. All this, only to have that dreaded moment that nearly all of us will experience when you open your mouth to hear the one thing you vowed never to say to your kids - pop out! It has happened: you have become your mother/father. It turns out that will power and determination to be different are not enough. In the parenting conversation all that has been available is the same information rearranged and reformatted, generation after generation. Folks, we are rearranging the deck chairs and the Titanic is sinking!

      Our world is changing with an intensity and acceleration that is hard to ignore. We are living in an age where climate change isn’t just a theory in science class, it is happening. The polar ice caps are disappearing, the sea levels are rising and there is mounting evidence that in our children’s life time, and perhaps even during our own, our planet may undergo a pole shift that will quite literally turn our world upside down.

      Everywhere we look there is a crumbling of what we have known. Change is coming fast and furious, on a global scale; affecting everything from our health, as pandemics easily circle the globe, to our finances as economies teeter worldwide. This is the world we are giving our children - and we are providing them with outdated information as the means to navigate it.

      What is this information, you might wonder - and I don’t blame you, as it’s so embedded in our self-concept and our structure of reality that it is akin to asking a fish How’s the water?

      When it comes to the conversation about parenting, our current belief system is built around the following:

      •There are qualified experts ‘out there’ on everything, including your children. They are right – you are wrong.

      •As a parent in your child’s life, YOU are the expert, not them. That makes you right and your children wrong.

      •There is a range of ‘normal’ that is desirable, whether it is developmental milestones or behavior. If you or your children fall outside of that range, there is something wrong that needs to be corrected.

      Overt discipline of children is no longer ‘fashionable’ in the form of physical discipline however, that has done little to change our methods of command-and-control parenting. These days, discipline shows up along the spectrum of verbal battering, humiliation, threats of abandonment/exclusion, coercion, bribery and manipulation - with the intention of ensuring our children meet some culturally referenced range of ‘normal’. We want to mold them into the models of behavior that we have established so that they fit in and don’t rock the boat. We homogenize

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