Rearing children is perhaps the arena or avenue where you, parent, coach or teacher, will make your most profound impact on the world.
Surely the strongest influence upon how we will raise our children might be the manner in which we ourselves were raised? Much can be gained from trying to remember what childhood was really like. If ignored, and if your childhood was difficult, it will color and influence everything about you, including the manner in which you treat children.
I would strongly suggest that any adult who lives or works with children periodically finds a comfortable place to be alone and undisturbed. Then, as a form of meditation, he or she reaches into the memory bank of his or her childhood to see it all again.
Can you see the world through the eyes of a child?
Can you immerse yourself and get into the experience of a child?
Can you feel, see, think, believe and trust others from the perspective of a child (as if you were still a child)?
Are you able to reach into your own childhood and capture the feeling of childlike vulnerability again?
Perhaps, you never knew such vulnerability at anytime in your life.
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