Learning to connect

The world we live in has collective unconscious networks. Carl Gustav Jung proposed that everyone has a 5% of their consciousness common with every other being on the sphere. Several intertwined associations, dependence, interdependence and counter-dependence. There is always too much that holds people together, sometimes even in a pathological manner. Colors can blend into a mosaic, or end up as a dark muddled blob, depending on how they are merged. Twine rightfully braided forms a beautiful pattern whereas left by itself becomes a messy inseparable coil of knots. Connections need to be precise. That is when messages are transmitted dead-on and relationships are nurtured.

Do you encourage your kids?

Positives are always better appreciated than criticism and negatives (how obvious is that statement). When you want your children to be responsible human beings, you need to first treat them like human beings instead of puppets and machines who react to your commands. If you give them sufficient space and apposite opportunity to live their life for themselves, they will be able to build on their own abilities. Besides repeatedly telling them how they are not good enough, what they cannot do or are not allowed to do; let them know and identify where they ‘are’ virtuous and what they ‘can’ do and are ‘allowed’ to do’. Encouraging them to do their ‘own’ thing leads to optimistic outcomes in behavior.