--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> If you take my perspective (and I > think Sal's) meditating parents need to re-focus on her job of raising > these kids and spend less time with their attention on their own self. > (capitalizing the "S" doesn't get them off the hook) Put down the > crack pipe people, your kids are being trained that their needs don't > matter and they don't understand that you believe you are creating > world peace. Kids need a little help developing their sense of self > and you need to be there or pay someone who can be. > > Since this is a real person that I don't even know, but whose life I > am judging from afar based on one story, I need to mention that I > haven't raised kids, although through my dating life I have been > around them a lot. I have no high horse to stand on in raising kids, > just a bunch of opinions. But even from my low horse I can see that > the question "where's my Maypo" (a nod to us baby boomers!) needs to > be answered "Right here darling", even if it is flavored with carob > and stevia herb sweetener. > Fun topics you are raising Curtis!
As humans we oddly take things way beyond normal sometimes into deeply weird, as someone would be who taught their kids to ignore their needs like hunger while the parents meditated hours on end. >From the standpoint of a dad who raised a daughter while practicing the TMSP and now the TM program, it just hasn't been a problem. Either my daughter just quietly played while we were meditating, or if we had to, one of us got up, attended to her needs and quietly resumed. I didn't draw a line between my meditation and my daughter, ever. Now she is old enough, 16, so that I just let her know, "dad's going to meditate..." and she doesn't care one way or the other. I suppose if I had been weird about it from the beginning and telegraphed to her that it was Something Special, then she would've reacted accordingly. But I didn't, and she doesn't. I've always spoken and acted about whatever I am experiencing in my life whether so called spritually oriented or not with my daughter as it is just another thing. Perhaps I was fortunate to not raise my daughter in a spiritually focused community. In any case, I can talk about reincarnation or angels or her boyfriends or music she likes or a movie we both saw without giving anything an inappropriate significance. Its all just life, and I suspect if someone is messing with their kids with regard to meditation, the rest of their lives need some cleaning up also.
