Parenting a Generator: stewarding children according to their Human Design

Parenting the next generation consciously will involve re-imagining the way we connect, educate and mentor children and this might feel inconvenient at first.

To parent a child is one of the greatest honors to be bestowed upon us - to steward a spirit is to BE love. And, it can feel terribly inconvenient at times, certainly exhausting and often challenging. I imagine this is mostly because as parents, we are constantly coming up against who we think we are and what we think we should be doing. As always, the antidote is usually returning to presence and tending, with love, to the child in front of us, the one God gave us.

Children (if we let them) will inspire us to be our most authentic selves, they will inspire us to lead and guide in ways that foster trust. Children are the purest beings on the planet and if we do not let the potency of their love and innocence inspire us into creating a more beautiful, honest, creative, natural life and world, then we are surely missing out on the Divine opportunity to do so.

Children offer the greatest perspective shift - prior to motherhood, life was about ME and what I wanted, and who I thought I was, and what my purpose was and how I can make more money to live more comfortably and *insert more self-indulgent desires here*.

I still have certain self indulgent desires, but all of them are filtered through the lens of how it might impact my child. At this juncture of time and space (a burgeoning new paradigm), I cannot unsee how I am role modeling what it means to live well, love well and BE present with this one, unique and ever fleeting life of mine. I cannot unsee the amount of superfluous distraction that we as a culture waste our precious life-force entertaining; mediocre brunch restaurants, incessant social scrolling and posting, a pre-occupation with youth, success and perfection, social issues in politics and the list could go on.

We know this, and yet the reminder feels necessary, we are not here to mould our children into who we think they ought to be or who society expects them to be. And so, as resilient as children as, we have a responsibility as their stewards to listen to them and honor their nature - this might mean pulling them out of a school that isn’t working, this might mean, initiating a new education system altogether, this might mean creating a life away from people who are not supporting your chosen lifestyle including family. This may mean facing tough decisions, allowing the old iterations of you to die before your eyes as you step with apprehension toward an unknown version of self… toward an unknown version of life.

This all feels pertinent to share as Generators are so often cast off as the ones that uphold convention (like working a 9-to-5) and I suppose, unless they actualize their individual nature, they do. And so, raising a generator child today is a heretical act, because it will ask every parent to confront the convenience of the status quo at every turn, even when it feels more convenient to just play ball and you have a child that could easily be manipulated to do so.

Here’s to raising generators that know and respect their boundaries and who pursue that which lights a fire in their belly. Here’s to raising a generation who raise the bar higher for how joyful life can be.

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Raising a Generator audio by Nikki Jae