A few weeks back, when I was settling into my bed for the night, my youngest daughter, who still sleeps close to me, asked me the following, "Tell me about my power?".
What type of power do you mean? I replied, " there are many different types of power, the power we have, that the earth has. The power that is needed to create, so much of what we use in our lives."
"The power that I can feel inside me and in the ground" she replied. I really wasn't sure what her response would be. But I was wonderfully excited by what she just said.
She wanted to know if I had any books about power. I told her about my Earth Wisdom books and she asked of she could see them. So I handed her a few, then she sat down and looked through them.
"Have you got any books on Sun Power", she called out when she had finished looking at the books. I don't unfortunately, but I told her that I would keep look out for some.
I have some books with stories about the sun, mythology and of course there are some in my Earth Wisdom books, but she wanted ones, that were only about the sun. Because she feels its power and she has some of it inside herself.
"I can sometimes feel the power in my hands", she said to me.
"Well use that power to be creative, to get things done" I told her.
It's amazing how quickly our roles switch as parents. From helping to educate our children, to them educating us.
My mind gets blown, by some of the conversations I have with my girls. My youngest is 6 now and she is full of wisdom, she is so in the here and now, so full of life and of magic. She really sees and feels life. She is so plugged into it. Into what it means to be alive.
As we grow up, we get distracted , we get pulled away from the present, and find ourselves living mostly in the past or the future. We get pulled in so many different directions.
So we lose the ability to feel our power. To really feel it.
My children, are for sure, some of my best teachers in life. They are like magnifying glasses. They certainly make things clearer and you get to see many different parts of yourself. They also have no filter, they are very clear about how they feel and how they express it. When you have kids, you see how real life is, there is no sugar coating with them. They just tell it like it is.
For sure, we have a role as educators, for our children. It's just important to let them ask about certain things when they are ready. To not try and plant too many ideas in their heads. Let them learn by observation, by exploration. Let them discover learning for themselves and that way, they get to have a greater understanding of how best they can learn. Setting them up to have the confidence to take charge of their own lives. Which is very powerful indeed.
