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The shocking truth was few people knew enough
about how to learn to adequately teach these young minds. This is
so important because what happens in the first seven years of our
lives lays the foundation, the pattern, for an entire lifetime.
These patterns are repeated throughout the life over and over. The
strengths as well as the weaknesses. This does not mean that you
cannot overcome any kind of adversity that you may have experienced
as a young child. It does mean that what we give a newly incarned
soul during the first seven years will make or break that individual
for that lifetime. Applying metaphysical principles and practices
in your own life prepares you for parenting. When you know basics
of disciplining the mind, you can teach them to a child. Concentration,
listening, recall, meditation, relaxation, intuitive skills. Personal
responsibility, integrity, wisdom, and a love for Truth. When you
learn spiritual principles and practices from a very young age,
you can imagine what you might be able to accomplish throughout
an entire lifetime.
How and what we teach the youth
of the world determines the kind of world we will know in the next
ten years, fifty years, the next hundred years. A recent U.S. survey
of kindergarten through twelfth grade teachers asked what skills
they thought their students would absolutely need in the next millennium.
About 45% of them said the students would need mastery of a second
language, 63% noted science and math skills, and 67% said students
need to have technology and information background, ie. computer
skills. Ninety-five percent of the teachers said their students
would need proficiency in problem solving. Yet, very little problem
solving is being taught in U.S. schools. Yes, there is a bevy of
hypothetical 'what ifs' but these are nothing more than secularized
morality plays that teach our youth how to think negatively. They
fail to teach reasoning which is the instrument of problem solving.
Imagination is being taught even less in our schools. We can continue
to wait until a problem arises, then go about using our innate or
God-given reasoning capacities to try to correct it. But it is far
more visionary to be able to imagine what you want to occur that
would benefit yourself and other people. Then find a way to make
it happen. The difference is feast or famine. The difference is
peace or war. The difference is wealth or poverty. If you have to
wait for conditions to be a problem, then you have to wait for famine.
You have to wait for poverty. You have to wait for sickness. You
have to wait for war before you can set the creative intelligence
that you possess into motion to solve that problem. We must teach
our children how to use their minds fully, productively. And we
must set an example. "
"Life is not measured
by the amount of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our
BREATH away"
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