The Coaching Parent » Imagination

Plugged out of reality

jackstewart — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:32:58 +0000

Have you ever wondered what might happen to your children if you removed their electronic gadgets. Read this, you will probably not be amazed – http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110118/ap_on_hi_te/us_fea_parenting_teens_unplugged%3B_ylt%3DAg3GD3IE44a5kz3uQLt5cA.s0NUE%3B_ylu%3DX3oDMTFpcDU2ZjU3BHBvcwMzNgRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX21vc3RfcG9wdWxhcgRzbGsDd2hhdGhhcHBlbnN3

What’s not to be possible?

jackstewart — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:51:38 +0000

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

Stressed?

jackstewart — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:20:45 +0000

Are you stressed? And what kind of stress are we talking about? Your kids might find it stressful to be deprived of their mobile phones for an hour.

No, we are talking about deep, lifetime acquired physiological stress. The kind most people are unaware of until they go down with illness, have a serious accident or ‘lose the plot.’

That’s the bad news. The good news is you can let it go. In our first book we gave you a whole range of tools and techniques to do so. When The Coaching Parent Companion comes out, you will find a few more.

Do you have beliefs that limit you? You have [harmful, even traumatic] memories from childhood [and even futher back] that remain in your cells. They need to go.

Before you get your hands on The Coaching Parent Companion, check this out www.successorstress.com. You might find some respite.

Jack Stewart.

The power of imagination

davidmiskimin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:55:29 +0000

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