Hello, I am Chong Weiqiang of the website of Road of the Miracle Network. In this information, I will tell you how you, as a practitioner, shall think about children’s education.
The reason for this information is that many people will forget how to educate their children because of their spiritual practices, or even worse, some people will apply the idea of spiritual practices to the issues of educating their children, and this blind application will cause some kind of conflict in their hearts. So the purpose of this information is to help you clarify the internal differences between spiritual practices and the education of children, so that you can greatly reduce conflicts.
First, let me define the attributes of juveniles in a broad sense. In the world, the group of juveniles is indeed a relatively “particular” group. Their “particularity” lies in the fact that the group will remain in a state of constant learning of the objective laws of the world. To put it in a simple way: a child from the moment of birth shall learn what to eat and drink, and then they have to learn what to wear as the temperature changes. And the commonality of these learning is around his body. That is to say, what a child should learn from birth is what is safe and favorable for his body, and what is dangerous and unfavorable. Then as they grow older, they have to constantly change their sense of self-identification and learn some general cultural knowledge. For example, he would be told by his parents: “You are a pupil now, you should do this and that. Now that you are a middle school student, you should do this and that. At this time, children will constantly change their self-identification. At the same time, in the process of growing up, children also need to learn some common legal rules and ways of dealing with the world. Until the end of the day, when he had learned most of the rules of the world, he would consider himself an adult. This is how children grow up. Of course, this process is what you have experienced.
From the above definition, you can see that in the process of growing up, children shall learn three categories of things:
1. How to make the body survive safely.
2. Basic cultural knowledge.
3. The legal rules in the world and the rule of universal interaction between people.
So as a parent, what you have to do is to educate and help your child learn these three categories well. This is not only your responsibility, but also something you have to do. Specifically:
1. You should teach your child what is favorable and safe for his/her body and what is harmful and dangerous. On this basis, you also have to do your duty to protect children. That is to say, when the child is in danger or will be in danger, you must be alert and protect his personal safety, and let the child get out of danger or avoid danger. You have to be as serious as possible on this issue.
2. As a parent, you should help and urge your children to learn “ordinary” cultural knowledge, which is also your responsibility. Notes in this article are: As a true practitioner, you should clearly recognize that every child’s academic performance will not be the same, and the children’s academic performance at each stage cannot be used as a criterion for the happiness and misfortune of children after adulthood. So you don’t have to put undue pressure on your child’s academic performance.
3. You need to teach your child the universal rules of interaction between people and some basic standards of good and evil in the world at the right time, and then you need to tell your child what bad acts are against the law. At this time, your child will gradually develop the correct legal concept.
To sum up, for a true practitioner, although the world is illusory, everyone is the son of God. But in linear time, your child is not a practitioner, and your child has not learned the universal objective laws of the dreamt world. Therefore, as a parent and practitioner, you should have a clear view of your child’s education. You can’t apply some ideas of spiritual practices directly to children’s education in a confused way. Because if you do this, you will not only cause troubles for yourself, but also affect the growth of your children.
There is a rule in the world that everyone who comes to this world will first learn the universal rules of the world and do things accordingly, afterwards he will be able to enter the field of non-worldly practices. Therefore, it is your destined duty to teach children to learn most of the objective laws of the world, and learning these objective laws is the course that every child must go through, whether or not the child will enter the field of spiritual practices after adulthood.
Finally, if you want to ask what spiritual concepts are good for children? There is only honest quality and no concealment. You can teach your children to be honest with adults at the right time, or you can teach them not to hide things at the right time. The function of these two kinds of teachings is that it can help the child keep a smooth communication with you, and the smooth communication will help you to better guide the child, so that your child will not do something out of the ordinary. This is the key to parent-child relationship.
This information is the last piece of the required reading for you to learn, and I finally suggest that you should bind the “A Course in Miracles” and “Disappearance of Universe” series to read together when learning this information, because my information comes from both sets of books, and my information will not exceed these two sets of books. Amen.
Chong Weiqiang
28 April 2019