What is spiritual parenting?

hi okay so we're getting barack hashem a lot of questions about the parenting seminar uh parenting from the inside out and uh okay let me try to go through some of the questions we're getting first of all what's the deal with the title parenting from the inside out second of all what's the deal with the subtitle a spiritual parenting journey they're they're very much related and let me explain what this is about usually it's been my experience people getting people get interested in parenting um because the acute reason is they're having a hard time with their children's behavior and they want a quick fix how do i get my children to change how they're acting and that's not the approach that we're taking at all what we're looking at is what what we're looking at is our children's behavior is a uh a symptom it's like a barometer for us to read how we're doing in our own personal development as parents so we're not so much concerned uh about making our children act differently which we have no control over directly anyway our free choice is to choose our behaviors right and as parents the behaviors we choose are extremely influential in our children now and for the rest of their lives so that's what we do so parenting from the inside out is about changing perspectives changing the way you look at yourself as a parent changing the way you look at the idea of parenting recognizing some of the spiritual inner strength that you have that maybe you could be using more and it's really i mean to be honest it's about becoming the best person you can be which includes if you're a parent becoming the best parent you can be and then automatically that when the parenting gets better then some of those issues that you were initially concerned about in your children they'll start to take care of themselves so this is not like tricks or tips how to get your kid to eat his broccoli and stuff like this no this is more like how can i be more spiritually centered how can i be more god-centered and allow that to come out in my parenting in all types of ways all right now some practical questions i'm getting like is it recorded uh what if we live in a different time zone okay so the answer is this is a paid course so it will not be publicly available the recordings but if you're a registrant then yes you will have access to private recordings which will be available during the duration of the course another question is about participation like is there q a so let me tell you like this yes this q a however let me tell you what that doesn't mean it does not mean that you can come with a list of well my kid won't go to bed what should i do it's not again i told you before that's not the approach we take we're looking for major principles the big ideas of parenting and when that shifts for us then intuitively we know how to deal with the little stuff okay so that's not the kind of q a we're going to we're going to do but what we are going to do for those who are the participants uh we're going to do a lot of work shopping so they're 90-minute sessions that should be clear i mean it says it on the flyer but they're 90 minute sessions so we're going to spend time every session workshopping talking about what what was your experience when you tried to apply last week's principles and we'll have real life examples from you the participants and that will be you know it doesn't get any realer than that and that's actually my favorite part of every session and then we have about an hour of presenting a new idea every class has another big idea you can look at the syllabus there's six weeks each class has one big idea which are to my estimation the the pillars of having the proper parenting hashgaffer okay i'm trying to think if there are any other questions that we keep getting uh husbands and wives somebody asked if uh what if they want to do it together okay so i'm gonna off the record no one's recording this all right we do like to keep it separate for men and for women it's just because of the interactive aspect of it it's just a different type of interaction when we keep mothers and fathers separate for many reasons um but look if if a woman is taking the course and her husband's off camera in the background listening in nobody's going to know nobody's going to care okay so if you want to do that in the privacy of your own home do whatever you want to do okay the point is though we do want people to respect the fact that there's a women's session and there's a men's session and it just it's beneficial on many levels uh just we get better results that way um maybe we should let you know that we've been actually doing this in beta for like a year um i've run this course a dozen times now oh another question we get is this for people who are religious or people are not religious so i'll tell you something i've run this course now for all types of groups for men for women for uh people who are very religious people who are not at all religious completely unaffiliated it's the same course it's the same course for everybody some of the particulars are different you know like uh you know the the specific examples that come up in the workshop in the workshopping portions of the sessions can be different but the principles are exactly the same now having said that we'll see what kind of a group we get i have no control over the demographics of who responds you know this is a public course so we'll we'll see who joins and i'm sure that whoever is part of the group that will all benefit from each other's insights and uh i have witnessed personally like i said i've given the course a dozen times i gained something from it personally every single time the real aha moments are when you see somebody else getting it and it doesn't necessarily have to be that you relate 100 to their specific circumstances it's just the idea of seeing somebody take an abstract idea and have it click for them and say ah that's what this means in real life so that's very powerful whether or not you you relate to their exact situation in life okay so anyways registration is open um for more information for the six week class syllabus you'll click on these links and check it out i look forward to seeing you there