Hey Leo here for actualized.org and in this episode I'm going to be talking about how to raise children except the people who have them.

A quote by PJ O'Rorick.

By Rockstar Kids, of course, I mean raising psychologically healthy kids who grow up into wise conscious adults and are able to tap into the higher consciousness facets of life

which very few people are able to tap into.

So that's what we're talking about here. Now for the record I don't have

children. So of course it's perfectly within your right to question why I'm

qualified to talk about this topic at all. And in a sense I feel like I'm qualified to talk about this topic at all and in a sense I feel like I'm not

qualified to talk about it because I think that there are a lot of elements to

parenting which are counterintuitive and tricky and can only be discovered by having kids and going

through that process yourself so I'm going to tread carefully here. Instead what

I've decided to limit myself to is to sort of the theoretical foundations of raising these kinds

of children.

This is the kind of stuff that you might not hear about in typical parenting books, although some of them might talk about this.

And my qualifications here are that I've spent the last five or ten years studying a lot of personal development, a lot of human psychology, and a lot of spirituality.

And I've also spent quite a bit of time doing a sort of post-mortem analysis of my own childhood and what worked and what didn't work there.

And in a sense, it's kind of like coming full circle because one of the reasons that I entered into personal development in the first place is because I grew up in a rather dysfunctional family.

A lot of elements in my family were dysfunctional. functional

and me entering personal

and me entering personal

was a way to address those issues for myself

because I wanted to live a certain kind of life and I was reacting really against that dysfunction in my family which led me to all this stuff.

And what was very interesting is that as I was studying all this personal development material for my adult life

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