RE: "What is the most important thing a parent needs to teach their child so s/he will live a happy life?" - ecoTrain Question Of The Week
OH. MY. GOD. Is this you Alex? '..being in the moment, present and fully engaged with each other and our immediate environment..'
'I would also not allow my child to own a smart phone or computer until they were at least 12-14 years old, or more.' If we can add 'no circumcision' to that I am ready for children. :-)
Hallelujah! I have made a few 'whoohoo's' reading this. :-) I fully agree, especially the first one is the key.
And I also agree to the fact that what we want to teach children is actually the advise we need to take ourselves because it usually is what we need most ourselves (for me that would be self acceptance as you can read in my article) and probably what we missed in our own youth.
And family and community of likeminded people is indeed very important for our own happiness and that of our children.
i know i said at the start that this was going to be advice for myself too.. i really tried today and was conscious of being in the moment.. i did a few things i wouldnt normally do in town, and didnt look at my phone once whilst having lunch@ ;-)
Oh wow , that's good to hear!