When our eleven year old daughter was told that the queen had gone and therefore the hive too was gone, she simply said, "maybe she left a princess". For the educated in this subject it was a fanciful idea at best; the musings of a child. However Earth Parenting is deeper than logic and understands that logic often stands in the way of the magic of nature.
So without attachment to my daughter's comment, I met her at the dreaming place and together we made it into a wish. Perhaps I had already corrected the things that seemed to be lacking when we first discovered the bees had gone and we were loving our garden again; who knows, but the bees kept gathering pollen. Evita lovingly observed this day after day and the other children began watching for signs of an active hive with her. Then, yesterday, our youngest boy came running with news, "they are making honey, I saw the honeycomb and I could smell the honey and there are more bees!."
We have a princess who has become a queen! Another one of nature's daily miracles, that our logic often rules out. The queen has gone, long live the princess.
Earth Parenting is about recalibrating ourselves with nature through our parenting of our children. In this process we need to take heed, much of what we believe about nature was told to us by adults who themselves were already many degrees removed from it. Our small children see energy and nature as it really is. Our 'parental warnings' often camouflage this reality and eventually distort their own innate senses. The sensory reality of children is intangible to the adult operating from the limited space of logic and reason. The bridge that can take us there is trust. When we trust nature and our children, our logic takes a back seat and something more powerful than our usually unreasonable fears takes over; love drives the vehicle and magic and miracles become daily events.
Connected by MOTOBLUR™
So without attachment to my daughter's comment, I met her at the dreaming place and together we made it into a wish. Perhaps I had already corrected the things that seemed to be lacking when we first discovered the bees had gone and we were loving our garden again; who knows, but the bees kept gathering pollen. Evita lovingly observed this day after day and the other children began watching for signs of an active hive with her. Then, yesterday, our youngest boy came running with news, "they are making honey, I saw the honeycomb and I could smell the honey and there are more bees!."
We have a princess who has become a queen! Another one of nature's daily miracles, that our logic often rules out. The queen has gone, long live the princess.
Earth Parenting is about recalibrating ourselves with nature through our parenting of our children. In this process we need to take heed, much of what we believe about nature was told to us by adults who themselves were already many degrees removed from it. Our small children see energy and nature as it really is. Our 'parental warnings' often camouflage this reality and eventually distort their own innate senses. The sensory reality of children is intangible to the adult operating from the limited space of logic and reason. The bridge that can take us there is trust. When we trust nature and our children, our logic takes a back seat and something more powerful than our usually unreasonable fears takes over; love drives the vehicle and magic and miracles become daily events.
Connected by MOTOBLUR™
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