#18 of 20 Tips…. ‘Teach them how to cope with difficulty. Your spiritual practice is key.’ This tip suggests YOU know how to cope with your own difficulties. I’ll venture to say you do but if you don’t, I’ll share some of my experience.

It was very helpful to me to look for and get a sense of the depth of my son’s connection to his spiritual self. To my pleasure, it was wonderfully deep. When he was just three years old or so, I was often astounded by his ability to translate spiritual symbolism in stories and movies.

Armed with this insight, over time, I could draw analogies that tapped into his deeper understanding spiritually. This ‘deeper understanding’ having a direct correlation to certain levels of intelligence helped me draw base lines. A baseline for keeping him out of jail, for example: Commiting a crime is the height of stupidity. There is no getting away with crimes. One is always found out and doomed to incarceration and/or the worms of mental and moral anguish. Who chooses that? Not smart. He agreed. So far, so good. He’s now 27.

As we know, our spiritual practices are key to coping with difficulties. Meditation techniques are my favorites. If one is to become a virtuoso in anything, this Practice is #1! Joy is paramount in all things. Magic is made here …a wand to be passed to our kids. All other methods of handling situations/difficulties, i.e. improve communication skills, patience, mathematical equation solving… have enhanced effectiveness when they spring from the spiritual base… the Ultimate Teaching, the Core Directive, All-Knowing.

Know what I mean? What do you think about #18?