Ten Commandments for Conscious Parents

At Terra Conscious School we work closely with all the parents of our students. In fact, we aspire for all of them to be awake and live consciously, so that there is coherence between what the children receive at home and experience in class. To achieve this, we encourage them to (trans)form with us.

Principles of the decalogue:

1. Education is the parents' responsibility

they are their main referents, guides, gurus, coaches and mentors to learn to live wisely. The school is the perfect complement for their optimal development.

2. The only way to educate is by example.

Our children are nurtured by who we are, what we do and what we say, as well as the energy we give off when we interact with them.

3. Emotionally emancipate yourself from your parents.

If we are not truly at peace with our parents, we tend to treat our children the same way we were treated during our childhood.

4. Practice conscious parenting. Awakening

means that we understand that our children are actually mirrors that reflect our lights and shadows and in which we project what we carry inside.

5. The best thing you can do for your child is to be happy.

When we are good with ourselves we can relate to our children in a conscious way, taking the most convenient attitude for them.

6. Put their needs before your own. Being

a conscious parent consists of leaving our ego aside, thus being able to empathize with our children's needs instead of expecting them to adapt to ours.

7. Support their emotions.

No matter how much we may disagree with certain behaviors and attitudes of children, it is essential to learn not to upset ourselves every time they get carried away by their emotions.

8. Accompany them with love.

Our most important function is to accompany them emotionally throughout their evolutionary process, finding the strength to love them when they least deserve it, because that is when they need it most.

9. Speak to them with respect.

Obviously we have to set limits for our children; however, if possible, we must try to set them without aggression or violence. More than anything because sooner or later we reap what we sow.

10. Let them follow their own path.

Instead of conditioning our children to see life in a certain way -our way-, we have to ask them questions so that they can discover their own way.

11. Relax: there is no such thing as a perfect parent.

Whatever we do, the fact is that our children will have to deal with their own traumas. So let's focus on becoming the change we want to see in them.