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Raising children successfully begins with a vision of the successful child.
Raising our children as successfully as possible requires raising ourselves.
Because our results in any area of life, including parenting, are a reflection of our levels of ability and influence, we do a better job of raising children as we remain committed to fulfilling our own higher potential.
One of the ways that we can raise ourselves to a higher level of functioning, for the good of our children, is to raise the level of our mastery over the creative power of our imagination.
Imagination functions as a self-fulfilling prophesy.
For instance, the more you imagine your child as a brat, the more you will bring out his “bratty potential”.
Raising children to fulfill their higher potential demands that we reject any negative visions of them that may occur to us.
Your child will tend to live up to the vision
that you hold in your mind.
Raising children to be as successful as possible requires that we recognize HOW we imagine them, WHEN we imagine them.
If we are not self-aware enough, we won’t even realize that when we resent our child, we are envisioning our child in a negative way.
So raising children to be successful obliges us to raise our level of awareness to the degree that we recognize what our imagination is up to.
The power of imagination is something we need to run, not something that ought to run us, and we need to teach this to our children.
A message that both parents and children need to hear is:
“Whatever runs your imagination runs your life!”
The more you intentionally direct your imagination to work for you (and for your child), the stronger your control over it grows.
To use your imagination, focus on a vision of what you want, including the healthy, happy and successful person you want your child to be.
Raising children successfully begins with a vision of the successful child.
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