12-25-2008, 09:26 PM
(12-25-2008, 08:17 PM)DreamingPeace Wrote: I'm interested in hearing about the experiences of other parents who have incorporated the LOO in their parenting.
This is a particularly interesting topic to me, because I've "inherited" a teenager when I remarried a couple years ago. While she is now 17, I was curious to find out what she really felt inside about her spirituality. She is Latina, and has grown up Catholic. But as she became a teenager, her and her mother dropped off from religion.
I found it kind of interesting, though, that she is open to LOO ideas involving the coming new age, but she is in no way motivated enough to pick up LOO, Autobiography of a Yogi, or some other esoteric material even though I leave it laying around the house. She's too caught up with friends and school to seem to want to care about spirituality. But isn't that typical for many youths who live in the moment of MySpace pages and text messaging? After dancing around some topics with her while I had her intention in the car, I could tell by her half-hearted answers that she didn't want to engage any further, so I just ended the discussion.
Since I got remarried (to the teenager's mom), I had two more children who are now 16 mos. and 3 mos. I plan on fully schooling them in LOO material. Thankfully, my wife is totally fine with a non-religious upbringing as she is spiritual, but unfortunately not a LOO reader. While I plan to validate the existence and importance of Jesus during his 3rd density incarnation, I feel obligated to also explain how there have been many distortions of how Jesus was documented and portrayed. I feel like I want to concentrate on his lessons of living in love, and not on the drama and parables that otherwise cloud these basic lessons.
So I've still got a few years of reviewing the LOO series and meditating in order to make sure I can offer these two kids a helpful service!
By the time they are old enough to understand it, 2012 will be here, which invites its own mystery of how that will impact my parenting as it relates to LOO.I take it you have childen, DreamingPeace? Are they old enough to begin thinking about these types of topics?
Steve