Live Vedanta: Parenting Culture

Virtues: Contentment - Surrender

Episode Summary

Welcome to Parenting Culture, a space to learn and reflect on 20 virtues that are prerequisites to be an extraordinary caregiver. ​During Week 13, we pursued: Virtue #10: Vairagya (Contentment) and Virtue #11: Anahankara (Surrender) to remind us to take time to center ourselves everyday and that we are seekers first, parents next.

Episode Notes

Recap:

• Whatever way we live will be impressed upon our child; so we need to have the right relationship with “stuff”. 
• Focus on our relationship with our children rather than regulating them. 
• Contentment is the opposite of Attachment → Fear → Anger/Annoyance 
• Without likes/dislikes, our mind is quiet 
• Feeling “I do” is an expression of the Ego.

How to practice Vairagya (Contentment) and Anahankara (Surrender)?

1. E.A.T: Enjoy Alone Time: Create alone time everyday and enjoy it. 
2. Give more virtues without expecting reciprocation.
3. Work on deserving less from our actions: When kids are demanding, don’t expect them to obey because we are doing so much for them. 
4. Remember how many others help us in caregiving: reduces the sense of separation - goes from “me and my” to “we” and eventually, “HE”.