So many parents strive to conform to stereotypical mental ideas about what it means to be “good parents” and, as a result, unknowingly suppress their children’s true nature.

What is it to really take care of children? Here is a quote from Ra Uru Hu, the founder of Human Design, about the Channel of Preservation with the Design of Nurturing 27-50.

“Since I was twelve or thirteen years old, I have been teaching people younger than me. And I’ve had a deep interest in my life, both professionally as a teacher, and I’ve taught in just about every kind of environment – I have a great concern for the education of children.

One of my basic concerns is that one of the primary elements of any child’s education has to be, has to be that they know themselves and know how to be treated as a human being in this life.

In my searching through my own process for the value of education, the value of education – this is the only time in my career as a teacher that I’ve ever truly taught anything of value. Everything else has been interesting.

Information is interesting. When you teach children, whether it’s history, geography or a language or whatever, you’re broadening the capacity of their minds to deal with more and more complex subjects. However, this is the first time as an educator I actually feel like I’m doing something that makes a difference, something that is really worthy of what education is about, and for me this is the essence of what the 27 – 50 is about.”

Caring for children is, first and foremost, nurturing their awareness — ability to make decisions out of their unique Inner Authority, the place in their body. So that they can navigate this rapidly changing world.

In order to truly support the development of their own awareness in children and thereby protect their well-being, adults need to know how to do it correctly, respecting the nature of the children, rather than trying to mold them according to outdated mental ideas.

“Why are they outdated? And why doesn’t it work?” Because our minds predict based on past experiences, and this is evident to be not the most effective way to approach new unknown situations where we encounter unfamiliar things.