{"id":149,"date":"2014-05-06T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stargardenparenting.com\/inspirations\/?p=149"},"modified":"2014-05-06T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T16:23:08","slug":"a-few-principles-regarding-self-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargardenparenting.com\/inspirations\/a-few-principles-regarding-self-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Principles Regarding Self Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1.\u00a0 Practice self-development and self-discipline.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2.\u00a0 Develop observation, contemplation, and meditation skills to nurture your relationship to guiding Spiritual Beings.\u00a0 Observe your child (hair, eyes, features, limbs, color, movements, smells, sounds, for example.)\u00a0 The percepts that you notice become spiritual food for Angels and Higher Beings to give you intuition and inspiration about your child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3.\u00a0 You are your child\u2019s destiny guide, they are your teacher.\u00a0 What issues do they bring up from your childhood?\u00a0 What family patterns?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">4.\u00a0 Practice presence of mind to be able to do what needs to be done. Presence models,\u00a0 \u201d I love you enough to be here in relationship to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">5.\u00a0 Allows your child to live in their stream of consciousness. Slow down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">6.\u00a0 Create rhythm that allows stream to flow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">7.\u00a0 Pay attention to the rhythms of sleeping and eating.\u00a0 These have a great and lasting\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 effect on the child\u2019s bodily constitution and sense of well being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">8. Allow for downtime and slow flow time, that allows family members to digest soul experiences.\u00a0 Hang out together doing nothing but enjoy each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">9. Nurture awareness of imitation so that you do what they can appropriately imitate. Allow them to participate in your daily life of tending the hearth and home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">10.\u00a0 Do not do for them what they can do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">11.\u00a0 Be active with your child in daily chores, nature, games, tumbling, gardening, and care for the hearth and home.\u00a0 Allow them to participate in your life.\u00a0 For a portion of the day do in their presence what they can do with you.\u00a0 This fosters for the child a sense of meaning, belonging and purpose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">12. Cultivate the virtues of gratitude, wonder, awe and respect.\u00a0 This nurtures health and wellbeing and supports a mood of self discipline.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">13. Pay attention to the environment which affects their physical organism in building their physical body.\u00a0 Simple and beautiful surroundings provide the most healthy influence.\u00a0 Limit technology and media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">14.\u00a0 Develop a strong visual imagination of your day with positivity, firmness and love.\u00a0 Nurture joy and happiness in simplicity.\u00a0 Review with yourself at the end of the day what did and did not work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">15.\u00a0 Visualize challenging situations with your children and how you will react in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">16.\u00a0 Consistency and predictability creates security.\u00a0 Use \u201cNo\u201d 10% of the time and modeling and redirection the other 90% of the time.\u00a0 Realize that model imperative means that they will do what you do, not what you say, as they imitate who you are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">17.\u00a0 Cultivate good habits and a strong will in the early years through imitation, repetition, delay of gratification and\u00a0 not too many choices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">18.\u00a0 Use simple communication with phrases and gestures.\u00a0 Show and tell them what to do, and avoid dwelling on what not to do.\u00a0 Make statements and minimize questions and choices, which tend to be confusing to the consciousness of a young child.\u00a0 Their consciousness better relates to \u201c we\u201d as they do not yet feel the awareness of separateness, of I and you.\u00a0 Stories have a deep effect on the child and reasoning is confusing.\u00a0 To cultivate reasonable children, model reasonable behavior that reflects well reasoned choices that are in alignment with your values and feelings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">19.\u00a0 Minimize adult activities such as movies, museums, lectures, concerts, tours, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">20.\u00a0 Examine your boundaries.\u00a0 Boundaries are an expression of how your higher Ego establishes values and integrates thinking, feeling and willing.\u00a0 Children need a firm, purposeful, kind and benevolent leader.\u00a0 They need a sense that you are in charge, the captain of the ship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">21.\u00a0 Children thrive in a flock where they can learn politeness, kindness, compassion, sharing, and helpfulness, harmonizing their will and tempering the self in relationship to others needs and desires.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">22.\u00a0 Children can become challenging when they learn new skills.\u00a0 Time for you to evaluate your relationship with them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">23. At challenging times pick up clutter, clean, change the environment.\u00a0 Go outside with them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">24.\u00a0 Avoid bribery, such as if you do this then you will get\u2026.\u00a0 Instead the carrot and motivation\u00a0 are more helpful, for example, I\u2019m hungry.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go get something to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">25.\u00a0 Make a heart\/physical connection daily and your child will cooperate more willingly.\u00a0 Use praise sparingly, but acknowledge and express gratitude for their help, thoughtfulness and abilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">26.\u00a0 Remember, you are their destiny guide on earth and they bring important new spiritual capacities and insights from their recent sojourn in the spiritual world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">27.\u00a0 Hold the highest and best thoughts of your child and that is mainly what they will manifest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.\u00a0 Practice self-development and self-discipline. 2.\u00a0 Develop observation, contemplation, and meditation skills to nurture your relationship to guiding Spiritual Beings.\u00a0 Observe your child (hair, eyes, features, limbs, color, movements, smells, sounds, for example.)\u00a0 The percepts that you notice become spiritual food for Angels and Higher Beings to give you intuition and inspiration about your child. 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