Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) June/July 2018 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 72

Parenting:
What Do Your Children
REALLY Need from You?
BY DR. MARGARET PAUL
M
ost parents want to be good
parents. Yet parenting is one of those things
that does not have hard and fast rules. So
how do we know what to do? How do we
know what will support our children in being
all they can be?
Trust Your Intuition
One of the most important things for parents
to do is to learn to trust their own intuition.
Your feelings tell you when you are on
course or off course in your behavior with
your children. When things feel right inside,
then you know that you are being a truly
loving parent, and when they feel wrong
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inside, you know you are out of alignment
with what is in your highest good and your
children’s highest good.
I remember my mother telling me that she
used to put her fist in her mouth to stop
herself from crying, and from picking me
up, when I was an infant and cried. She had
read in Dr. Spock that babies should not be
picked up when they cry, that it is good for
their lungs to cry, and that she would spoil
me if she picked me up. But her insides were
telling her the opposite – that babies cry
when they need food, changing or love. It is
so sad that she followed Dr. Spock instead
of her own inner knowing.