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Tags: creating reality, freedom, Imagination
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
At what age do you consider it appropriate for your girls to be bombarded with sexual imagery? What kind of role models do they have today? Who or what might inspire them?
If you watch television, you will not fail to have noticed that today’s women are obsessed with how they look, how often they can flick their hair, how high the heels are on their shoes and if they can master about six poses and pouts modelled by Posh Spice and Cheryl Cole.
Indeed do not these two represent the highest pinnacle of acheivement?
And if you get fed up with Cheryl Cole’s face on every vertical urban space, there’s always Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Beyonce.
The time is ripe for mothers everywhere to become real role models for daughters. Compassion, kindness, inner strength, resilience, serving others, honesty, down-to-earth, intelligence, grace, patience, humility, love…
Or self-obsession, avarice, greed, falseness and talentless irrelevance?
These may be the rantings of a grumpy old man. But who would you like your girls to emulate…?
Whilst no-one should underestimate the corrupting and corrosive power of the media in all its forms, mothers are the unsung heroes of the next generation. Please use your influence wisely.
Jack Stewart
Tags: creating reality, responsiblity, sanity
This is a primary theme running through both our books. ‘Do as I do and do as I say.’ Do you do as you say? Is there congruence between your words and actions?
We live in a world of deliberate confusion. One media source will tell you a substance/product/food/activity is good for kids, another the opposite. This is another reason to be consistent yourself.
Greece is in the news at the moment, and it is accompanied by xenophobic rants about Greeks not paying tax. If you had any time to spare, you would discover through research that people who run the planet don’t pay any tax either. Except we are not talking about a few euros, we are talking billions.
Much of this is hidden from the public. But be under no illusion. By setting the best example you can, you can put off or deny for ever the day your child is weighed down by the deliberate confusion of the world. You can be the light in the darkness. And as you shine on your child, you will shine on everyone. And sometime soon, confusion and deceit will lift, and your child will be an even greater gift to you, your family and the world.
Jack Stewart.
Tags: creating reality, parenting, 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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