Corrective Patterning and the Path Back Home
Corrective Patterning and the Path Back Home What if… just maybe… hear me out… What if teaching your child the way they should walk wasn’t only about shaping their future, but also about giving you a reference point when you forget your own? The Cycle of Forgetting We all fall short of ourselves. Nearly everyone carries a failure or regret that still whispers years later. The daily weight of adulthood—the bills, the deadlines, the compromises—pulls us off the path we once swore we’d walk. Maybe that’s why we teach children to tell the truth, to resist stealing, to show kindness. Not only so they’ll hold onto integrity when they grow up, but so that those lessons, once living in them, can reflect back to us when we falter. Children as Living Mirrors When your child repeats what you taught them—“we don’t lie,” “we don’t cheat,” “we don’t take what isn’t ours”—it can sound almost embarrassing when you’ve slipped into shortcuts yourself. Yet that’s the beauty of it. They become mirrors. Th...