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Instead of focusing on rules, Taking Children Seriously focuses on fostering understanding. Parenting is the process of supporting a child until they understand the world well enough that they can support themselves. What is the best way to foster understanding? To provide freedom and security for a person’s creativity to discover how the world wor
... See moreAaron Stupple • The Sovereign Child: How a Forgotten Philosophy Can Liberate Kids and Their Parents
if you approach small children without an agenda, if you can match the openness of their minds, you too are open.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
It was only when I realized many years later that I was in some ways a miserable failure as a parent that I began learning how to become a better one. I watched my wife Imaging. Her view of her two boys was different from my approach to child rearing. She saw her children as individuals who were fully entitled to her respect—even as infants. She li
... See moreGERRY SPENCE • HOW TO ARGUE AND WIN EVERY TIME
What is required of parents is not perfection but attention, a willingness to learn and relearn, repeatedly—what each child individually needs, and needs from us, in order to blossom and thrive.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
TRUST: We are in a crisis of trust the world over. Parents are afraid, and that makes our children afraid — to be who they are, to take risks, to stand up against injustice. Trust has to start with us. When we’re confident in the choices we make as parents, we can then trust our children to take important and necessary steps toward empowerment and
... See moreEsther Wojcicki • How to Raise Happy and Successful Children: Simple Lessons for Radical Results
But children also need containers for the truth, for situations that may be difficult for them to understand.
Kim John Payne M.Ed. • Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
Since children are less developed intellectually, we sometimes give them only a portion of our attention, believing that will satisfy their needs. We read a few paragraphs about the Middle East in a news magazine and then look up to say, “Oh, you’re building a castle. That’s nice.” Then we jump back around the globe. The divided mind becomes a mode
... See moreEknath Easwaran • Passage Meditation - A Complete Spiritual Practice: Train Your Mind and Find a Life that Fulfills (Essential Easwaran Library Book 1)
Dont force your kid to blindly adhere to your rules, if they learn to blindly follow you they will not be able to make rational decisions for themselves. I always said "my rules are law, unless you can tell me reasonably why you have a better idea" this gets kids thinking about their situation, and not just acting out against you. Shows them that y
... See moreWe’ve all heard the saying “Children are meant to be seen, not heard.” It was a slogan of sorts that summed up our older generations’ mindset around raising children. This mindset was born out of an understanding that the only needs children had were basic, such as food and shelter. Resource scarcity was a reality for many members of these generati
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