It All Begins Young

If you had never been told the word "no", or had never been told that something couldn't happen, would you believe that you could have anything you wanted?  Would you believe that you could do anything you put your mind to?

So many of us parents have told our children they couldn't do something or have something because we were limited on what we could do at the time to help them achieve their wants and desires.  Therefore, our children have learned limited beliefs on abundance and dreams.  Instead of believing that all things can come to them from Source through limitless possibilities, they come into the belief that everything must come from us or they get nothing at all.

What are we to do then if we do not have the tools at hand to help make things possible for our children?  The best thing a parent can tell a child is that something cannot come from their mother and/or father at this time, but perhaps at another time.  In the meantime, they should ask the child should think of other ways to obtain that which they desire.  You might be surprised with what they come up with.

Children believe what they are told until they grow and hopefully discover on their own that what has been passed down was due to their parents' own beliefs.  To say that something is not possible is limiting their ability to see that there is always more than one way of going about things.  BUT.  Children who are taught to think of other options and come up with creative solutions are the ones who will excel in life at a younger age more easily than their peers.  Think of the young entrepreneurs.  They became successful at such young ages because they did not limit themselves.  Instead of stopping at roadblocks, they were able to see their way around and beyond them to discover a different path.

Unfortunately, "no" and limited thinking had already been set in this house years ago and it's a habit that has been hard to get rid of.  All is not lost, however.  My 16 year old son really took my epiphany to heart in the last year and has been discovering many other ways.  I call him my go-getter because he no longer accepts "no" or "cannot" as an answer from anyone and moves forward to the next option, rather than backing away and calling defeat or failure.  Along the way, he has discovered that the paths that didn't work out were not failures, but rather paths he learned from to try something different and better the next time.  Those past paths have been great teachers to him, and now he is defeating the odds in some areas of his life and manifesting things that continue to amaze me.  Not all areas yet, but he'll get there.