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What if there’s no ‘right way’ to parent? – a ‘many lifetimes’ perspective on parenting
By Kim Billington D
ebate about parenting styles has been reignited by Amy Chua’s controversial book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, where super-tough love is held
up as the panacea for parenting problems. Other authors argue for the safe-bet of having a balance between ‘discipline’ and ‘freedom’. Yet life shows countless examples where siblings who have experienced the same upbringing, have had quite different outcomes. It seems there is no proven, linear
‘law’ of cause-and-effect with any particular method of childrearing. So how are parents supposed to raise their children? What if there was another perspective on
parenting, not as yet recognised in the pop- parenting culture or academia? So, ‘what if…?’ … What if I was born
into this world, already having chosen my parents? What if I had planned to be second-born to my gentle, push-over ‘pussy- cat’ mother, and my firm, disciplining ‘tiger’ father? What if I had agreed to the heredity-mix and the emotional environment, the culture and ethics of that
socio-economic nest? What if this was not my first lifetime, and that more than half a century ago, my spirit began returning to earth, re-entering the stream of physical life within my mother’s womb? What if each lifetime allows me to further develop the soul virtues I lack, such as loving compassion? And what if, since this is a more complex task than learning my ABC, this may require many lifetimes to fulfill? Would it be too bizarre to contemplate
that I may also be here to help my parents and older brother advance, as they learnt their particular life lessons? What if prior to
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our births, we had choreographed a dance for four individuals to understand the value of loving support? Of course, as we put it into practice under earthly conditions, it often fell apart! Did we all have ‘left feet’, I wonder, or was each stumble a precious moment of learning? Is there much point calculating a family’s
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