Sending our kids to school?
Was just asked to write an article about why millennials don't care about sending their kids to school. Feel like sharing it With you lovely people:
We are a generation of questioners. We don’t like to just take our elders’ word for It anymore. We don’t believe in the all-knowing aspect of religions and institutions. In fact, we get extremely uncomfortable, if anyone tells us how It is.
We are living in times, where we can just google It. Information is readily available. We scan over this information and build and construct our reality from this information, however it makes sense to us in the moment.
There is no rigid TRUTH anymore.
So, when at age 8 and 10, our kids decided that they didn’t want to go to school anymore, about 10 years ago, I took a deep look at them for a moment. I scanned through all the reasons why they Should go and how we should enforce that.
And I realized that really 99% of what I had “learned” in school was absolutely irrelevant for what I am doing now, how we are earning our money by bringing our gift into this world.
Reading, a bit of writing and basic math is really all I am using. And it can be learned very quick, when we want to.
Kids are learning from youtube and their environment all they need. Fast. It’s all there.
And really, in order to tap into the limitless potential of our unique soul mission here on this planet, I found out that I had to UnLearn, to reset all I had learned in school. It’s like a stuffy old attic that for generations people have been storing all the useless stuff that was in their way. Just in case, somebody might possibly be able to use it some day.
It is actually a lot of work to clear it out, open the windows, let some fresh air in, uncover, investigate, integrate and let go.
So, who am I to tell my children that they have to go to school, when I see that they certainly know better? Why not let them get a “clean attic” head start, save them from cramming up their mind space with mostly useless trivia?
I feel like it is my responsibility to support my children on their path to freedom.
And setting them up to be part of a system that I don’t believe in, that in my view is geared towards disconnection and daily grind, aiming towards the empty promise of a glorious retirement at the end of many years of compromise and trying to fit in, would be disrespectful and an utter disservice to them.
No, we know better. We don’t need to throw more obstacles in our children’s way, because we are afraid that Our judgement, Our intuition, Our own power isn’t worth anything.
We don’t want to give all the power to the Authorities, trusting Them to take care of our children.
We let ourselves be led by excitement and joy. I have no intention to withhold this way of inner guidance from my children.
And to watch my children turning into amazing adults, without being forced or talked into going to school, is wonderful to witness.
It’s still a process, and of course this is not a recipe for everlasting bliss, nor is this the Only path there is.
But it definitely is a path of empowering and trusting ourselves and our kids.
We don’t take anybody’s word for it.
We Know because we experience it. — with Bridget Lamers.