As I went on to note, the fact that emotional outbreaks are viewed as a good thing is a fairly new phenomenon. For centuries, the opposite was true; giving into one's emotions was viewed as a sign of weakness, a lack of self-command.
Our modern embrace of the emotional can found in many places. As family psychologist John Rosemond recently explained, it's also seen in how we raise our children:
"My generation did what no generation in any culture at any time in history had ever done: We broke with the parenting traditions of our foremothers and forefathers. When the time came, we refused to take the well-worn parenting baton and carry it forward. ...We see many articles today talking about how hard parenting is and how unmanageable children are and how much pressure is involved in making sure our offspring get the best of everything.
The new parenting experts implied, strongly, that good parenting was all about properly interpreting and responding to a child's feelings โ the canard being that pre-1960s parents did not allow their children to freely express their feelings (true), thus causing them untold psychic damage (false). That understanding caused the more emotionally intuitive of the child-rearing pair to begin believing that she alone was capable of properly executing the new set of assignments and, therefore, broke the child-rearing unity of husband and wife. As a result, what was now 'mothering' became what raising a child had never before been except in unusual circumstances: stressful, anxiety- and guilt-ridden, frustrating, and exhausting. That is, hard."
And it's true. Parenting is hard and children are unmanageable. But have we made the task of raising children harder than it's supposed to be by fixating so much on their emotions and desires?
As John Rosemond concludes, the best way "to raise emotional tyrants" is to "feed the beast." If we want to stop the chaos erupting in schools and in our nation's streets, do parents need to return to the time-honored methods of parenting, which did not cater to the emotional whims of child?
Reader Comments
So yes, of course parents need to be around . . .
The problem with the current generation is the fact the parents have praised the child to much. The child now coming into adulthood has the perception that they are indeed truly special because everyone, since birth, has told them so.
It seems like they are ignoring other factors that brought about this current generation like vaccines, messed up media, and fake color revolutions.
I agree and as a sole parent I encourage my son to freely express himself, question his peers, to always listen to what someone is saying before responding, to do what makes him feel good but to also recognize and respect people and their opinions while doing so. Unfortunately though, being Dad I sometimes am not held in that high of a regard as others.
Or don't have children in the first place.
There are very few people 'active' today that have any level of intuition at all.
Intuition is simply being aware of things and what is going on in a truly holistic and fully compassionate sense. It is incomprehensible to those who do not have it. Have you got any?
As you further program and technologize each mind and make it more and more machine-like (each a virtual limited albeit identical copy of the other), of course it loses its intuitive ability and function.
This total loss of intuitive ability, while retaining other feelings and emotions and even heightening them and fabricating them artificially for reasons of stupidity and greed and mind control, is DAMNATION.
People do not understand what holiness is, what wholeness is and what wellness is. They have no 'idea' anymore.
And it is possible, indeed likely, many of them will never know. We may all be losing the only hope and the only authentic ability we ever had.
As I indicated above, we may all be DAMNED. Does that sound sweet? Does it feel good? Is it helping your cause?
Have a nice day. Enjoy your dinner.
ned, out
Seeing how history and now people follow authority without following intuition (or conscience), I don't see much of a solution as long as the power hungry psychopathic leaders are around. Watch the movie about the Stamford Experiment to see how evil anyone can be turned without even realizing it until afterwards. Watch the documentaries of what happened in Germany. How many times will people do this until we learn?
And no, there's no way "good" people can take leadership away from those psychos. The stakes are too high for them, plus they easily hijack the masses with lower emotions and sound bytes.
So basically anyone who disagrees or feels bad about something should shut up?
After all their upset would resonate bad....
Sorry, the world and this universe does not follow Good thoughts lead to goodness. LKJ wrote in the wave how despite people wanting peace we keep having wars. The new age paradigm of you create your reality does not work on a macro level as history shows.