Vishen Lakhiani argues that parenting is not an innate skill and that the myth of parental instinct causes widespread harm. Drawing on his own experience, he calls for formal parenting education and introduces Mindvalley’s free (limited-time) parenting training library called "Little Humans," which aggregates top experts and counterintuitive parenting ideas to improve children's emotional and mental wellbeing.
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Listen to your intuition, trust your gut. You'll know what to do at the right time. This is advice that parents often hear from loving relatives when your first child is born. But the idea that we are born good parents is utter bullshit. And this myth that parenting is an instinct that we'll instantly get it, that what our parents did for us, we will easily be able to adapt to our kids, is the cause of so much pain and grief in the world. 11 years when I became a father to Hayden, I didn't read any book on parenting. I fell for the same myth that all of us fall for. That I knew it all, and I figured it out along the way. Parenting is the most important job that any of us could go on. If you are a parent and you're not investing time becoming a parent, what on earth are you thinking? That's like getting a job that you've never been trained for before and deciding that you're simply going to figure it out without reading a manual. How stupid is it that governments around the do not give every new mother and father training on how to raise their little one? Because if they did, and if their training was right, imagine how we could change the world in just one generation. So mindvalley is aiming to fix that. We're building the world's most advanced parenting training library. I call it Little Humans. And we know we don't have all the answers, so we're going out and seeking the best minds in parenting in the world. And best of all, we are dropping the price to make it completely free. So anyone can watch this for a limited time free on the web. We've created a program where we bring together top parenting experts to share counterintuitive truths to parenting ideas that you probably have never heard of before and wouldn't suspect to be true. But these ideas will transform the way you show up in the world for your children and as a result, make your bond with your kids so much better. Broken human beings are the source of so many problems in the world today. And we can fix that by becoming the best parents we can be. So go ahead, check out Little Humans so that the next generation of human beings are healthier, are happier, better mastery over their mind, and their emotions are more conscious, compassionate, and loving. It's a lot easier than you think.
