Offer trust, breed trustworthiness.“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest” ~Benjamin Franklin
Trusting our children is a complete paradigm shift. It’s controversial. It’s radical. It’s sad.
But if we trust our children’s natural curiosity for life, creating an environment that supports that curiosity and helping them to follow their passions, how can they not thrive? How could they not learn? I don’t think the environment needs to be necessarily a physical place either. The environment can be virtual, as long as it’s filled with love and support. I have seen Miro learn, but more importantly he is learning that his interests are valid, he is learning to trust his own inspiration and he is growing into being accountable in having his own interests.
Powerful.
I have had to shift my paradigm of thinking about my son’s education as well. I am no longer looking at his education through the lens of formal curriculum defined for me, a measurement that was arbitrary to me anyway. My son is not functioning in a paradigm designed to measure his survival. Instead, he is thriving, and the foundation of love, support and stepping out of the box in style of life has shifted the paradigm once again.
I am noticing more of a reflection in everything we do. An immediate reflection in our world. Fill a child with love, worthiness, respect, trust and understanding and he overflows the same things back into the world. Empower a child to create their own reality, determine their own path and create their own reality, the world will be a better place from it.
Lainie Liberti is a recovering branding expert, who’s career once focused on creating campaigns for green – eco business, non-profits and conscious business. Dazzling clients with her high-energy designs for over 18 years, Lainie lent her artistic talents to businesses that matter. But that was then.
In 2008, after the economy took a turn, Lainie decided to be the change (instead of a victim) and began the process of “lifestyle redesign,” a joint decision between both her and her 11-year-old son, Miro. They sold or gave away all of of their possessions in 2009 and began a life of travel, service, and exploration. Lainie and her son Miro began their open-ended adventure backpacking through Central and South America. They are slow traveling around the globe allowing inspiration to be their compass. The pair is most interested in exploring different cultures, contributing by serving, and connecting with humanity as ‘global citizens.’
Today Lainie considers herself a digital nomad who is living a location independent life. She and her son write and podcast their experiences from the road at Raising Miro on the Road of Life.
