THE PROBLEM

Every day in America 5,044 children are arrested. During that same day 17,297 public school students are suspended.  A youth under 20 commits suicide every 4 hours.  Every 60 seconds a baby is born to a teen mother. Unskilled, unconscious parents yell, spank, bribe, threaten, pout, dispense guilt, shame, order, and give children the silent treatment. Some punish children into submission with an escalating series of consequences. Others over-function by doing their kids’ thinking, caring, and speaking for them. They overprotect, rescue, and do for their children until they don’t know how to do for themselves. Others under-function, allowing the peer group and electronic media to raise their children. Some give children what they need excessively which turns to spoiling and feelings of entitlement.

Clearly, the state of parenting in the world is not good. As a result, parenting experts are surfacing in every corner of the globe, proclaiming to have the answers to parents’ concerns. They give ideas on how to say “no” and mean it, how to take control in your own home, how to respond to whining and back talk, and address other daily issues that face today’s parents. They tweak and twist the currently parenting paradigm in an effort to make parents’ lives easier and get children to behave. Yet entitlement, obesity, disrespect, lack of motivation, teen pregnancy, and disconnectedness in families persist.

THE SOLUTION

What is needed today to help parents raise responsible, caring, conscious children is a radical shift in the parenting consciousness that exists on the planet. The time for tweaking this or that external circumstance is over. It isn’t working! It is now time to make a fundamental change—-to parent with enlightenment—to do conscious parenting—to create the UNCOMMON PARENT for the NEW EARTH.

Parents need to learn to…

• Move UP in consciousness before they move IN with action.
• Move past their ego and parent from the essence of who they really are so they can stop taking things personally.
• Get out of their minds and eliminate the dysfunction that comes from their incessant mind chatter.
• Yield and accept that what is…is in their parenting life so they can respond from a place that is free of emotional attachment.
• Understand the value of being present with their children rather than doing to their children since all the doing they can muster will not overcome unconscious being.
• Add the concept of allowing to their parenting repertoire so that appropriate moments of noninterference allow children to learn their own lessons, making their own mistakes.
• Help children develop an inner authority since their inner authority is the only one they will take with them everywhere they go.

In short, it is time for parents to stop being normal parents because normal parenting is not working and will not work to help our children manifest a better world. It is time for them to parent like no one else so their children can grow up to be like no one else.

WHO HAS THE SOLUTION

Thomas Haller and Chick Moorman are accomplished and seasoned parenting authorities who have invested a lifetime in helping parents understand and implement the new parenting paradigm. They have done thousands of workshops, written a dozen books, and worked many hours doing individual therapy with children and parents. In each case they help parents learn how to do enlightened, conscious parenting. They have been interviewed on hundreds of radio and TV shows and Thomas has a regular radio show (the highest rated in Southwestern Michigan) and does regular TV spots highlighting the importance of  what it takes to be a committed parent in today’s world. .

Thomas and Chick are not your typical parenting experts. Their work does not concentrate on how to make parenting convenient or time-efficient. They do not help parents do their job without making any changes in their lives. They help parents, teachers, and caregivers realize that in order to raise children they have to raise themselves first. All of us, in order to be effective with children, have to raise ourselves to a higher consciousness. They are working on that in their own lives and they help others learn to do that as well.

The behaviors that children are presently doing around the world are a signal and a call to action. They are saying to us, “OK, no more playing around. It is time to become the parent you are capable of becoming.” Our children are inviting us to get our parenting acts together. They are doing that the only way they know how, with dysfunction and inappropriate behavior. Will we listen? Can we make that leap from normal parenting that is not working to a new parenting paradigm that our children need? Thomas Haller and Chick Moorman think we can.

Thomas and Chick want to help parents change their focus from the parenting world that is… to the parenting world that could be, to parent like no one else so their children can grow up to be like no one else.