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Spring has truly sprung!
This must be one of the best springtime experiences we have had in England for many many years. Extensive sunshine and the blossom on the trees, has been the fullest I can recall. And what a joy it was to take our four grandchildren to Ness Botanic Gardens on the Wirral (North West England). They had an amazing time frolicking in the blossom, and it was just as much fun for us watching!
David Miskimin
I was listening to a fascinating conversation on the radio. The DJ asked his nine-year-old caller, who was about to depart for school – “what are you looking forward to about school today?”. The response was immediate and effusive. “My two front teeth came out yesterday and nobody knows – I can’t wait to get to school and show everybody!”. I thought ‘how wonderful’, and not a moments concern from the caller either.
It also reminded me about the importance of looking forward rather than backwards. We can’t change the past, yet we can eagerly anticipate the future, especially if we believe we can influence it by what we do in the present.
In The Coaching Parent book we refer to how easy it is to integrate this thinking into coaching. One of the great things with coaching is to create an atmosphere of future expectation. It’s done with the simple statement:
“What are you most looking forward to about tomorrow.”
It presupposes a number of things:
• That you are looking forward to something.
• That you are looking forward to more than one thing.
• That the future will indeed be positive.
And even though you may not have thought of something, the statement forces you to comment on the fact that there will be something you can look forward to. So – a very powerful question.
How about asking your family the same question…?
David Miskimin
Tags: anticipation, future, looking forward
How do you construct your reality? If you read the ‘papers’ every day, and watch a lot of ‘news’ programmes, you will probably be suicidal! Like most people, you most likely take what you watch, hear and read with a pinch of salt.
I saw a TV programme the other night about a young single mum who gave her young son an Argos catalogue before Xmas. Guess what? He ‘chose’ a list of toys and she went into debt to buy them. She had to declare the equivalent of bankruptcy after being unable to pay the £600 bill.
So who created her son’s reality? And her’s?
Forget the material stuff for a moment. What would happen if you dispensed with Newtonian cause-and-effect physics? This 400 year old theory underpins media reality, as does the model of a our bodies as machines.
Suppose we could influence ‘reality’ to a level unimaginable? Just like da Vinci, Galileo, Newton [in his day], Tesla, Einstein and contemporary innovators.
Just exactly what is fixed for ever? Almost nothing. So your reality is co-created with God, the universe, source, or consciousness or whatever you choose to call it.
And what kind of reality do you want? And for your children…
Jack Stewart
Tags: creating reality, freedom, Imagination, responsiblity
We gave Aiden, our 6 year old grandson, a Power Rangers book to read when he stayed over recently. This is the same boy who is unbeatable at Wii Ten-pin bowling – I don’t stand a chance. He also enjoys playing with a cut-down laptop computer, that can’t access the Internet, yet looks as though it could pilot a spaceship to Mars! Laura my wife and I were amazed at what happened. The book never left his side, whether at the meal table, sitting on the floor, or when in bed. He loved it – why though? Well it had brilliant graphics and on every page asked the reader questions that stirred his imagination. The clincher though was the cut-out Power Rangers mask. He transformed when he wore it – which was almost all the time. This even included trying to go to sleep wearing it!
What a wonderful reminder. As Jack will tell you, I say there are contemporary approaches and then there is the classical method. On all counts stimulating a child’s imagination is the latter.
David Miskimin
Tags: creating reality, Imagination
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