CONSCIOUS PARENTING
• Puppet Friends. Have one puppet talk to your
child about how he’s lost his ‘thinking’ cap
and his ‘feeling’ shirt so he can’t think of feel
anymore. Jest with your child through the
puppet and try to get your child to talk with
puppet about the mind and feelings being
connected to the body, not located in a cap
or shirt.
• Simon Says. Play a game similar to Simon
Says only chabnge it to My Mind Says and
point out how the body does what the mind
says to do. For example, “My mind says ‘body
jump up and down two times.” My mind says,
“body, feel angry with a tense face.”
• Process Verbally. Share examples with your
child about things you notice with your mind,
body emotions AS they are happening. KKFor
example, “I keep having the thought with my
mind to sit down and rest. And just look at
my body! It is just dragging along and I FEEL
tired. My mind got the message from my
body that it is tired and I am going to listen
to it and sit down right now.”
• Play Dough Feelings. Instruct child(ren) to
think a mad thought, feel it, notice where
it is in the body, and let the mad feelings
come out into the play dough. Talk about
it. Next, breathe deeply together and think
a calm thought, feel it in the body, notice
how breathing changes from having mad
thoughts, then let the calm feelings come
out into the play dough. Compare how each
art form feels and looks differently. This
technique can also be used to release upset/
stressed feelings in everyday situations and
be used as a catalyst for discussion.
Children who are taught to know themselves develop a higher consciousness that lets them know
good choices from bad choices, self-healing from
self-harming, and knowing how to help themselves
be happy and healthy. These are the resources
that we cannot afford to waste on our planet. Children can help heal our world with these skills and
awareness.
“Your work saved our child from being a trouble
maker and filtered into our family to create a life
that gave us more enrichment and healthy relationships than we ever could have had without the
skills you gave us. Thank you for helping us to save
ourselves.” Teacher/parent
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