Shift Movement

As my youngest son turns 18 on Saturday, I contemplate that it has been a long while since i have had little children in my life.  When life changed suddenly, i was placed in the position of a child in the meta-physical community – one invited into the room for entertainment value that stays around because the adults seem far more entertaining than the other kids.  Eldest children in their generational families tend to have this tendency, because we were always the first kid to know what was coming down – for good and bad reasons.

I found a very interesting perspective piece that caught my eye with a photo – one that i have used as an avatar – the Mandlebrot flame.  I have been very interested in watching indigo and crystal children when they come into my world – i empathize because my inner child stays out to play whenever i can allow.  I may howl at the moon – the coyotes then join me in song.  I would be interested in solutions to the challenges these kids face – because they are our leaders and our learning system must accommodate the children to grok the concepts, so that we teachers can re-frame those learning lessons to re-educate adults.

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Happy Birthday to your son Lenny….I have 5 kids ages 23 to 11..what you write here about re-educating adults and helping the kids deal with the transition into the new age goes right to my core. It’s huge and feels a bit overwhelming to think of what our kids are facing.. yet I believe it is possible to equip and empower them with the truth that they are divine, here for a reason and follow their heart.  That part is usually easy, but again its getting parents on board to realize the we need new systems to accommodate them. ~

Lenny ~ What fabulous energy to the melded image you created from the flame around the web blog piece.  I have some thought to this topic because I learned about the concept of “indigo children” late in life and believe I had always been one without knowing it.  I have a clear psychic connection with my daughter who I believe is one as well, now 11. Time and time again, she knows things or brings me little gifts that symbolically reflect something important to me without a single word passing between us. (Example: I tell someone I have been having strange dreams and want to start recording them; she is several states away on a trip and returns from a gift shop full of zillions of choices with a Navajo-made dream catcher for me). She is incredibly in tune with the animal kingdom, as I am with the plant realm. Her greatest wish is that I could overcome my severe lifelong allergy to animal dander. 

Here is something she wrote on a piece of art at age 9:  ”Art is lines waiting to happen.”

Art was budget cut out of her school and she was the only kid in her class deeply saddened enough to pass around a petition that nobody wanted to sign. 

She is brilliant in math and most things, yet she cried inconsolably one day asking me what the purpose is to school and why couldn’t she live in another time?  I have to agree with her school seems to do little to serve her.  Yet I haven’t found an alternative, have you?  Financially I’m too strapped to home school and she doesn’t want to miss out on friends.  

As the blog piece points out, everything gets so mixed up when labels and roles are put on children as they become adults, and sometimes I don’t know where the truth lies – chemical imbalance/genetic cellular changes (primarily physical root) or spiritual/psychic/supernatural root.  Along with ADHD, what to make of the huge wave of autistic children/Asperger’s?  Some of them are now engineering inventions that could very well save the world.  Yet they can’t carry on a conversation or form a single friendship.  

I know many working inside the educational system now think it is obsolete.  It truly is a different world, with more information at our phoning fingertips than an entire library of books when we were a child.  Reconnection is the saving grace to me.  To our source.  Not necessarily reverting to living in a cave, but daily reconnection to the natural world from which our cells evolved. The earth is sending us messages all the time and I fear no one will remember how to hear them. 

Hi Erin, enjoyed your post. I have and 11 year old girl myself, our daughters are truly a blessing. Regarding homeschooling, I have been at it for over 20 years and some of those years I too was financially strapped. So I just wanted to encourage you that it can be done without huge monetary outlay. I thought I might suggest also to see if there are any home school groups in your area for socializing. just some thoughts. with love

Janet

Erin, I too homeschooled for over 17 years and we were really financially strapped!  I found that if I plugged into my community and into the other homeschoolers that there were plenty of free and low cost ways to homeschool.  I found our public library was a great starting place as were our local college and even students at the college who were teaching majors and loved trying out new ideas and concepts and sharing with us!  With the internet now such am amazing technology and resource, there are unlimited resources that are free!  You can try ZDNet and click on their download button and use the search function to get lots of things for learning and enrichment.  AcademicEarth.org, TeachingAmericanHistory.org, are amazing resources.  For older kids, the MIT OpenCourseware site is phenomenal with college level classes that I think high schoolers could get a lot out of.  Also, the Gutenberg Project is an amazing resource as it offers over a thousand classic books absolutely free!  They are dedicated to increasing literacy!  And, of course, our good old YouTube has tons of videos on any subject you wish and check out iTunes and click on the free downloads button for more great resources!  They are out there for just a small investment of your time and curiosity!  I wish you much love and light and fun on this adventure if you so choose to explore it!  Namaste

Children need cartoons.  Images are not what they seem. Smile.

Lenny I love this!  Thanks for sharing!  Perhaps none of us are what we seem?!!  wow!  Namaste

Thank you Janet and Melody for your ideas re: homeschooling.  I came “this” close to pulling her out during 5th grade with a very dysfunctional teacher year, but because I work 60 hours a week to keep us off food bank and us with health insurance, I decided against it and instead talked with the superintendent about teacher evaluations. . . she was absolutely shocked by some of the things I mentioned.  Anyway, we do what we can, I suppose.  I am choosing to go back to 1 job as she starts middle school, and choosing more time with her versus choice of food or vacation, and even if it means reapplying for state help. 

But first, I am taking us on our first vacation in 5 years in 3 weeks (my first more than 24 hours off from work in 5 years) –  Yippee!!   We are utilizing some of the online resources including Khan Academy, and a fabulous local retired math tutor willing to work with her past grade level even if her regular teacher did not.  

The best part about working 7 days a week since January has been watching how many things I could enroll her in over the course of the year at her choice. . . sax lessons, swimming, piano, volleyball, a writing camp. . . 

Erin 

Hi Erin!  Wow, Great selections of courses for her and so glad you found other resources for her as well!  I too struggled during my days as a single mom of 3 and I remember well the hard choices and working 5 jobs at one point to keep it all together!  Yes, 5!  One full time, 1 weekend overnights, 2 part time and 1 at home job on temp basis to pay for Christmas that year! It was challenging!  I am so glad that you get some vacation time!!  Please enjoy it thoroughly!  You so deserve it!  Love and light winging it’s way to you and yours!  Namaste

Blessings Melody ~ Your story is exactly why I put Single Parents Everywhere on my list of Who are my Heroes on the Shift Network.  : ) I almost tied you at 4 jobs my first year with child – substitute preschool teaching, coffee barista at a cafe, bakery counter clerk, medical transcription nights.  After that year, I have stuck with 2 jobs realizing it was hard to maintain ‘competence’ more than that.  Lisa Nichols story is incredibly inspiring when you’ve been that low.  So glad I have the opportunity to absorb her coaching in Your Breakthrough Life on Shift Network!  

Erin, the only way I was able to do all 5 was because of great bosses who let me bring my children to work with me for half of the jobs!  My full time one was a really soft security job and the neighborhood was like family and they either watched my kids between security rounds or I was allowed to let my kids use the pools, playgrounds and since I only took 15 min. max on rounds I was allowed the rest of the hour with my kids!  I couldn’t begin to be grateful enough for that kind of support!  The other 2 part time ones involved running a child care service at a church facility during classes for the moms and taking care of the kids of mom’s in a singing group who met at a church and I got to use the nursery facilities and at both I was allowed to bring my kids and let them play with the other kids so it was also a great socializing time!  These jobs were such a blessing! Getting to work, be paid, and keep my kids with me!  Since the only job that was away from my kids was an overnight position for 2 nights for 6 hours, my kids were basically asleep while I was working!  I got home at 4 am so when they woke up I was there!  I felt so fortunate to be able to work and be with my kids the vast majority of the time thanks to great bosses and such wonderful people who surrounded me on my jobs.  I owe them many thanks!

 I even home schooled while on the job!  Between rounds we walked fitness trails, did homework, art time was doing claymation at a neighborhood home helping my friend do her job which she ran out of her home.  We visited the college next door to my job, when swimming another neighbor gave them lessons for free and whenever parties were happening at the pools I guarded (there were 4 of them!) the neighbors always included us in them!  It was hard to work so many jobs in some ways but the rewards were well worth it!  The only state aid we got was Medi-Cal for me and my kids and otherwise I supported my family myself.

I have learned that with every challenge come blessings and opportunities!!  I am facing yet another challenge right now and yet I am so blessed because I have been able to meet all of you and feel like you are family!  May you continue to be blessed, Erin, as I know you will be!  Love and light to you!  Namaste

This song was written to a child from their parent, It has been a song for me to my kids. hope you enjoy! Love to all of you and your kids….

Janet, that is a great song!  What a challenge!  To be willing and able to show a child everything!  Of course, if one shows them love, then we have shown them everything!  Love is everything!  Namaste

Here’s a laugh:  An odd little creation from my bored kid using someone’s iPad and some stuff around the house:  

Zactly Melody…we show them Love, we’ve shown them everything that matters.