Why don’t we tell our children the truth about The System as
soon as they are old enough to understand?
Regrettably, I was not awake enough to tell my young children
about the game that we are all playing, and that their participation is
optional. Fortunately, my kids woke up and after years in the traditional
school system, they each independently saw through the holes in the system, and
they left before they could be rewarded with completion. I’m the proud parent
of three brilliant, and awake, high school drop outs. Luckily, by the time they
had the wisdom to make their own choices, I had the courage to support them.
We are waking up but if we are still raising children in an
antiquated school system, so what? We are just passing along the hypnotic
trance to the next generation. I want to be clear – there are excellent and
well-intentioned teachers, but they too are restricted, and pressured, in many
of the same ways that distress our children.
Systematic Programming
Traditional schools, in the U.S and many other countries, are
training grounds, intentionally constructed to prepare children for The System.
Public and many private schools are designed to program children to be asleep
and stay asleep so that they will later follow along as adults. Our innocent
kids are systematically programmed with worthiness issues, depression and the
abhorrent need to fit in. Once a child is programmed for twelve or more years,
he or she is well primed to move into the “real world” with beliefs and
behaviors that feed and perpetuate a systematic agenda.
Schools are structured, in such a way, that rewards are given
for following along, being good, doing as you are told, memorization and
repetition. Punishment is given for speaking out, thinking for yourself and not
following along. Schools effectively teach students to feel powerless and to
question their worth at every turn – breaking the precious spirits of our
impressionable children.
In many ways, schools use a military template in order to
roll-out obedient citizens; long structured hours, endless homework, tests that
create anxiety, and ceaseless memorization, with little time for recess.
Keeping children sitting at desks all day also disconnects them from their
bodies and the wisdom that is in the body. Many schools even look and feel like
depressing military barracks.
When I was a kid, I would sleep walk as a result of PTSD from
school stress. Years later, I would still have nightmares that I failed a test.
I would wake up sweating – needing to remind myself that school was over. There
is even more school stress these days than when I was a kid.
It is not uncommon for pre-teens to be on Prozac or other
depression/anxiety medication because they are overwhelmed, anxious or
depressed. An eleven
year old should not even know stress! Kids should be free to create
and express – to enjoy life and especially to delight in learning. No wonder
the teenage suicide rate continues to increase.
Medicating Our Young to Stay Asleep?
Of course, there are children who don’t respond to school
programming and do not go along with the agenda. These children are diagnosed
with ADHD or ADD, but what we are calling a
disability or a problem is actually natural creativity – energy that has no positive
channel for expression in a school environment. Schools cannot handle “normally
evolving children” – so these children are labeled and diagnosed in order to
have an excuse to medicate – and sometimes separate.
But that is only part of this problem, the real problem is that
in order to appease teachers and school officials, many parents agree to
medicate their children. Giving our kids dangerous drugs to stay asleep is like
forcing them to take the blue pill in the Matrix! These children are asking us
to evolve and we are responding to them with sedation.
The Death of Imagination
Our greatest power to consciously create lies in the “mental
technology” known as Imagination. Everything begins with imagination. It is
stronger and more powerful than any action that we take in the world. Isn’t it
interesting that traditional schools shut down imagination?
If you cut off a child from his imagination, you have cut him
off from his power to consciously create his life. The System does not support
imagination because it needs people to follow along and do what they are told
in order to feed and sustain it. If everyone used their imagination and thought
for themselves, most dysfunctional systems would break-down very quickly.
To The System, a child’s imagination is the enemy, and therefore
must be suppressed at any cost.
Unknowingly, we, as parents, do the same to our children – only
because it was done to us, and we have been brainwashed to believe that
children must let go of their imaginative powers in order to succeed in life –
or rather to succeed in The System. When we are awake, we can easily see that
true success comes from the power of one’s imagination and the freedom to
express it – ultimately manifesting in tangible results.
Let me be clear – there are some
schools that support and encourage the free and natural development of
children, but the schools to which I am referring are established, and
run, by government institutions that are invested in keeping future generations
in line and asleep.
Higher Learning
Education is essential, but there is a huge difference between
memorizing information that you will never use and being able to learn
something because it will positively impact your life, or open your mind in
some expansive manner, allowing you to create and contribute to humanity.
There is so much to learn in this world, but traditional schools
don’t address the most important elements of life, like communication skills,
relationship skills, growing food, building homes, nutrition, natural healing,
and the list goes on. If schools taught our children to be self-sufficient,
confident and well-equipped for real life, The System would crash, or at the
very least, dissolve naturally over time.
What Can You Do if Your Child is in The System?
I am certainly not saying that we should take our children out
of schools or not put them there to begin with. I am saying that if we must
send our kids to traditional schools that, at the very least, we tell them the
truth in a way that is empowering and freeing and we not allow The System to
raise our precious children for us.
If your child is in the traditional school system, it is
imperative that you be a strong parent and resist the pressure of teachers and
school officials who try to tell you how to parent.
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Take your power back
as a parent.
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Take a stand for your
children.
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Stop caring what
others say about you or your children.
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Don’t be bullied by
school authority figures – who want you to bully your own children.
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Support your children
in thinking for themselves.
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Overcome your own
fears of breaking free.
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Find other parents who
think like you.
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Form support groups
for parents – and for the children.
Let Us Become Responsible for Our Children’s Education and Development
Instead of teaching children how to get along in a dysfunctional
world, why don’t we teach our kids how to create their lives based on their
highest values? Whether you are a parent or a school teacher, you have the
power and ability to teach children to:
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Trust inner guidance.
·
Make positive choices.
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Use their imagination.
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Be able to say no and
set boundaries.
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Think for themselves.
·
Experience inner
power.
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Develop intuition.
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Acquire skills for
self-learning.
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Gain high self-esteem.
·
Express inner
confidence.
·
Master communication
skills.
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Experience and process
emotions in healthy ways.
This might mean that you first embrace these things for yourself
so that you can teach your kids, but that is also the point.
When I took a stand for my children, each time the school
initially fought back but ultimately backed off. I watched the school system
(and a conventional ex-husband) bend in surprising ways to support each of my
children.
It is important to acknowledge the restrictions placed on your
child’s teachers, but this doesn’t mean that you should take no for an answer.
Your child’s teachers can be your best allies in creating a superior school
experience. And, don’t be afraid to kindly and respectfully educate your
child’s teachers to a more enlightened approach to teaching. We are all
learning and waking up together.
Most of all, trust yourself as a parent, and don’t be afraid to go against the grain, in support of your children.
My three children have excelled in extraordinary ways – for
example, when my son, Travis, broke free of the school system at sixteen, he
took all that “military time” he would have spent in traditional school and he
used it every day studying things that he was truly interested in. In under two
years, he mastered a musical instrument, taught himself how to draw portraits,
developed communication skills, become an expert in body building and he even
started his own business at the age of seventeen. If he had followed along like
society demanded, at this time, he would be scratching his head and moving into
the next phase of an inauthentic life.
Final Thoughts
Ultimately, we must own the education experience for our
children and not leave it in the hands of a broken system that is asleep and
that is invested in keeping our kids asleep. We must create a school experience
that, first and foremost, supports the well-being of the child – mind, body and
spirit. Then we must structure education in a way that empowers children to
thrive and to use their minds in ways that support the growth, empowerment and
sustainably of the world. Education should instill confidence, inner strength,
wisdom, intuition and the ability to learn.
Eventually our school systems will be built on this fundamental
foundation, but until then, we as conscious parents must bridge the gap by
raising conscious children and helping them to develop these essential
attributes, in or out, of the current school system. This requires that we wake
up and pay attention – that we are not afraid to speak the truth to our
children, nor do we hesitate to empower them to think clearly for themselves.
As parents of awakening children, we must be fully awake ourselves, and we must
embrace the courage to raise and support extraordinary children.
Children who think for themselves grow up to be adults who
change the world!
By Nanice Ellis
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World