Raising spiritual and intuitive children begins at home with you. As a parent, you get to decide how to share your beliefs and ideals with your children. Just by being open to learning more yourself about spirituality and having fun with your children, you open the door to them exploring their own intuition and spirituality. Ultimately, this means they get to know themselves and you to depths you can't imagine.
I have learned to incorporate what I believe into the lives of my children on a regular basis. What are some of the ways that I encourage spiritual wellness with my children? Here are a few:
We pray every night, but one night it is to The Divine, the next to God, the next to Spirit. I want my children to know that there are different names to this beautiful, unending, loving, forgiving entity that created us all.
My children know about their spirit guides, about angels, and we talk freely about my psychic work, using a pendulum, seeing things that others don't see or hearing things others don't hear.
I talk to them about loving Mother Earth: picking up trash, the 3-Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle), using herbs as medicine, eating organic foods that help to rebuild the soil of Mother Earth, and more.
I gave my youngest son a set of animal oracle cards for Christmas so he can do his own card readings. The cards speak about trusting your intuition, asking for help, overcoming fear.
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i have always been very spiritual and having children didn't change that. i have always talked to them about my beliefs but have been careful to make sure they know about the spiritual practices of others. my sons' dad was raised as a catholic and i wanted them to know that, while i am not really a "christian" i do respect the beliefs of others. i am also a big book person so i bought them books that we read together. mountains, meadows and moonbeams, by mary summer-rain is a wonderful book for young children if you want to teach them about concepts such as sprites, obe, meditation, etc. each element is presented in a black and while line drawing that my kids could color after we talked about the topic. there is also another book called, all i see is a part of me, which presents the concept that we are all connected and made of the same stuff as the rocks and the trees, etc. and yet another book called, the other way to listen, that explains that the earth mother is always speaking to us, but that we just have to learn another way to listen to her.
aside from that, we used to go to quaker meeting, where we would "listen for the small, still voice within" and at the same time be around other spiritual people that just happened to be christian. but my favorite times are camping and hiking with my kids. i have always rehabilitated injured and orphaned animals and it really didn't matter what. . . snakes, birds, bunnies, raccoons, squirrels, etc. once, when visiting my in-laws, my kids and i came upon a ground hog that had been hit by a car. his back legs were crushed, but he was pulling himself along the shoulder of the road with just his two front legs. every time a car would pass, he would snap at it. we stopped and scooted him into a box i had in the back of the car, and took him to a vet to be put down, so he wouldn't have to die a painful, frightening death. when we got back to the grandparents' house, my kids excitedly told their grandfather. howard whirled on me and began lecturing me about what an irresponsible mother i was. those things carried diseases and i was exposing my kids to it. what was i teaching my kids? he bellowed. i just calmly looked at him, kids by my side and said, "i hope i'm teaching them that all life is sacred." - oddly, he shut up.
so, now i have a 22 year old, about to graduate from college. he isn't as expressive about his spirituality as i am, and he definitely doesn't believe in fairies any more, but many people have come to tell me that he is the most gentle, non-judgmental soul they have ever met. my other son is 15 and knows everything. THAT'S MY LIFE CHALLENGE. HE'S MY INDIGO and he is an angry little indigo too. gotta love 'em, although i do occasionally tell him that kids like him are the reason some mother animals eat their young. lol we both get a laugh out of that. but seriously, he's the "jalapenos in my salsa."