Parenting: How to raise
intuitive children
Marina Liaros-Naples
Are today’s children – as some say – the ones we have been waiting for? It seems we cannot turn on the television, radio, or scroll through social media without hearing and reading about children of today being more spiritually-evolved and more enlightened than the generations before them.
A common belief is these “new age” children have a heightened sensitivity to impressions of sound/noise, emotions, stimuli, and substances in our foods, air, soil, and furnishings making yesterday’s world a more difficult fit for today’s child.
Who is guiding these children? Are today’s children more metaphysically and spiritually evolved or, were yesterday’s children always “tuned in” yet this essence ignored? A quick internet search shows people want to know more, do more, and be more: spiritually, metaphysically, and holistically. They want this for their children and grandchildren as well. Parents and caregivers can be the creative –spiritual guide of magical true-to-heart and soul beliefs for them.
There are children’s activities available nowadays which include mediation, dream interpretation and yoga which are designed with fun in mind, and can be good for developing healthy, centered, spiritual, creative, intuitive skills that can be used in everyday life.
Children see, express, and operate from their creative and emotional core more than the intellect and that core is where the heart and soul resides, not in the mind.
So, at bedtime dim the lights, speak in a soft voice, massage your child’s arms, legs, back, and head to relax them. Talk about angels, create angel names, and tell them how angels watch over them. Take walks in the woods and experience it with all your senses. Have them join you when you take time to sit, close your eyes, and slow your breath to come to that quiet place within. Five to fifteen minutes, depending upon your child’s age, can easily bring you both to that relaxed place. Then, take another look around to truly see your surroundings. Join nature groups to learn more about the life of nature or sign up your child for fun age-appropriate classes that teach intuition development and spiritual centering and how to play with energy. More are becoming available all the time. These fundamental steps will lay the foundation for the following generations to usher in the gentler world we’ve been waiting for.
Marina Liaros Naples of Olcott holds childrens play shops and day camps through August in Amherst. She blogs at www.blogtalkradio.com/children-meeting-ike-series. For more information on her programs visit Meeting IKE Children’s Playshop Series on Facebook.
A common belief is these “new age” children have a heightened sensitivity to impressions of sound/noise, emotions, stimuli, and substances in our foods, air, soil, and furnishings making yesterday’s world a more difficult fit for today’s child.
Who is guiding these children? Are today’s children more metaphysically and spiritually evolved or, were yesterday’s children always “tuned in” yet this essence ignored? A quick internet search shows people want to know more, do more, and be more: spiritually, metaphysically, and holistically. They want this for their children and grandchildren as well. Parents and caregivers can be the creative –spiritual guide of magical true-to-heart and soul beliefs for them.
There are children’s activities available nowadays which include mediation, dream interpretation and yoga which are designed with fun in mind, and can be good for developing healthy, centered, spiritual, creative, intuitive skills that can be used in everyday life.
Children see, express, and operate from their creative and emotional core more than the intellect and that core is where the heart and soul resides, not in the mind.
So, at bedtime dim the lights, speak in a soft voice, massage your child’s arms, legs, back, and head to relax them. Talk about angels, create angel names, and tell them how angels watch over them. Take walks in the woods and experience it with all your senses. Have them join you when you take time to sit, close your eyes, and slow your breath to come to that quiet place within. Five to fifteen minutes, depending upon your child’s age, can easily bring you both to that relaxed place. Then, take another look around to truly see your surroundings. Join nature groups to learn more about the life of nature or sign up your child for fun age-appropriate classes that teach intuition development and spiritual centering and how to play with energy. More are becoming available all the time. These fundamental steps will lay the foundation for the following generations to usher in the gentler world we’ve been waiting for.
Marina Liaros Naples of Olcott holds childrens play shops and day camps through August in Amherst. She blogs at www.blogtalkradio.com/children-meeting-ike-series. For more information on her programs visit Meeting IKE Children’s Playshop Series on Facebook.