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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#003366 size=5
face=Arial>Conversations with Monjoronson #42 – Cultural Transformation;
Parenting – Feb. 10, 2012</FONT></H1>
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face=Arial>Topics:</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>Global sustainability and planetary
management<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>The state of
anticipation<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>Is all the information available for
educating youth on sex and parenting?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>What is the proper way to teach children
about religion?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>How do we teach children about medicine and
good health practices?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>What is the proper way for parents to
educate their children?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>The importance of parental
experience<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>Cosmic
citizenship<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>The privilege of
procreation<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>The needs of Indigo and Crystal
children<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>Children born with physical or emotional
problems<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>The discipline of
children<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>Allowing children to
fail<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>Should the child be placed in competitive
situations?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>Obesity in
children<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>Bullying is a problem for our
youth<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>Parental divorce or
separation<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>Families, education and procreation are all
related<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>Dealing with teen
pregnancies<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>Society’s obligation to
children<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal"><FONT face=Arial>The concept of ‘good
parenting’</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>TR:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Daniel Raphael</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>Moderator:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael McCray</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3 face=Arial>February 10,
2012</FONT></H2>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>Prayer:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Heavenly Father, we are most grateful
for the opportunity to come together again in this venue, knowing that you live
within us as we live within you, we are thankful for the loving over-care that
you provide.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are thankful too,
that you have provided a hierarchy of beings who love us as you do and will help
lead us and our world to you.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>Good morning,
Monjoronson.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good
morning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, dear
ones.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your blessing last
week.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My cold went away and I’ve
felt well all week.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Wonderful, good!</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you have anything that you would like
to share with us before we start?</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3 face=Arial>Global
sustainability and planetary management</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I addressed you some
months ago—a couple of years ago—where I discussed global sustainability and
planetary management.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For many of
you, you were taken aback by our candidness and what was revealed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We did that for several reasons, but
today’s note includes the thought that we wish you to think of your world in
long-range terms, long-range goals, that planetary management is not some
quarterly or yearly process of meeting some short-term goals, but planetary
management has all to do with organizational systems and fitting short-term
goals into long-term goals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you
were a planetary manager, you would not be much interested in linear,
longitudinal-type of operations that ended with some type of results and then
perhaps did not go on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You would
not be interested in some type of linear management system that did not provide
feedback to you, to make amendments and changes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Planetary management is a known science;
it is something that is taught to Planetary Princes, Planetary Managers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They go to school to learn this; they
have access to all the archives of millions of planets, many of which are very
similar, or almost identical to the planets that they are managing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The history is complete.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet, the experiential process of
managing a planet yields tremendous results for the planetary manager and for
the inhabitants.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The case for
Urantia is that we are seeking to develop processes within your organizational
structures that provide feedback to its long-term goals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are not so much concerned about
short-term goals at all.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>What is missing
from your worldview, from your mental model of the world, is the circular nature
of life’s activities and its processes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You see a goal, you set objectives to achieve the goal, and when you
achieve the goal you are happy and celebrate and that is the end of it, and then
you begin to set another goal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Whereas in our work, we see the short-term objectives and goals as part
of a feedback system.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When a goal
is achieved, what does that say about the process that led to that goal?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is there room for improvement?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can we adjust this so that these
successes are repeated over and over and over again?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, you see, that the Correcting Time is
a process to provide an active, ongoing more visible feedback system, both to
the inhabitants of your world and to us, to achieve better results for this
world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The results come down to the
quality of lives of the individuals, such that they can make choices to live
better and more competently, so that they have a better chance of succeeding and
surviving in the afterlife.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>As we said some
time ago, the quality of souls graduating from Urantia was of such a low
quotient that emergency necessities had to be installed to improve what was
developing here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rather than a
spiraling down of your societies and civilizations, we want to see a spiraling
upward and the improvement of the individual lives of individuals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Much has been written about systems
management and systems thinking that I urge you to do your own research
concerning that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will find that
this will be a repeating theme of ours in the days, weeks, months and years,
decades and centuries ahead.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Everything feeds to another process; it repeats itself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not cyclical, but circular, and
so we need to have feedback systems installed in your organizations.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>For your
commercial organizations, the feedback system is based on profit or loss.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is very narrow, it is extremely
narrow, and in our terms it is so narrow it looks like a hair that is stretched
between two points—it is that narrow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It does not see the other ancillary processes as being a beneficial
product of the organization, and these are the things that we are most
interested in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The project that we
have undertaken is to bend the cultures of your world such that they take on
many of the characteristics, attitudes and mental models that we have, that all
the actions of individuals, families, communities and societies would begin to
bend to this new model.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In terms of
how you humans would define what we are doing, this is a cultural,
transformative initiative.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will
see this phrase many times in the future and it should be seen as a signal that
this is something radically different, radically important and to take notice
and to invest yourself in participating in this.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what we are doing; it is major;
it will affect all the cultures of your world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>If you consider
the culture of solely the United States, its main culture was begun with the
immigration of the pilgrims to this country.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was changed immensely and was
institutionalized in the 1700’s with the “Declaration of Independence” and
formally installed with the “Constitution” of this nation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What has happened too is that the
commercial interests of your nation began to form a culture, which you are
enjoying today.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But, on the other
hand, you are seeing evidence in your culture that it has reached its apogee
(the height of its trajectory) and that it is on the way down now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are here—not to intervene—but to help
you re-invent your culture, so that it becomes survival oriented, and that the
visions of individuals will fit nicely into the vision of a sustainable
civilization, society, nation, community, family and individual.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>Through our
hopes and our wishes for you, we will not cease our efforts to install this new
culture in your world until we have been successful.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We ask you to assist us in that; you
have already begun by listening to the advice, wisdom and guidance of your
Thought Adjusters, guardians and celestial teachers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your conscious connection and your
conscious conversation with your Thought Adjuster, guardian and teachers is
vital, though it is not absolutely necessary.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you have an out-loud conversation
with these entities but do not hear anything, you will surely be heard.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your sincerity and your intention is
foremost with your communication with them, as they thoroughly understand this
long before you have even formed it in words.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Forming it in words makes a commitment
in a relationship to them, with them and they will support you as your efforts
are in alignment with the Father’s Will, and Christ Michael’s Will for this
world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3 face=Arial>The
state of anticipation</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have been standing with my toes
hanging over the edge for some time now, anticipating something.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do I have sometime yet to wait, or did I
miss something?</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh
no, you did not miss anything.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
will be standing on the brink with your toes hanging over for quite some
time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What we wish you to do in
that state of anticipation—rather than anxiety—and in your anticipation, to cast
around the horizon in front of you, over this tremendous abyss, to make sure
that when the hand of change is reaching up to grab you, that you pull back a
little bit so that you are not pulled into the abyss of change.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t want to fall into the
hole!</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Definitely not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is why
we have warned you; that is why we are here to advise you, and you—the greater
you—who are reading this, and others who have not, but who will eventually read
this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are here to help you
prepare for what is to come, and that we need your survival, we need your
presence in the future to know the way and share the way with others, who do not
see it as clearly as you do.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, we thank you for your help, your
advice.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3 face=Arial>Is all
the information available for educating youth on sex and
parenting?</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>You spoke of the
future where the parents are responsible for the education and socialization of
their children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When children are
beginning to enter puberty, they receive sex education classes and later, as the
need arises, these would be augmented by classes for procreating couples and
parenting classes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This presupposes
a fully functioning educational system in the future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do not have that now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is all the information available now for
us to put in place, the education for our youth and procreating couples and
parenting classes?</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes,
there is definitely sufficient educational material to share with children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Parents are totally responsible now,
have been and always will be in the future for the socialization and education
of their children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When children
are precocious and get into sexual trouble it is usually because parents have
withheld informing their children in a rational way, to assist the child [to]
make reasonable, logical, healthy decisions about their present situation and
future.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Parents need to be candid
with their children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They need to
research this material themselves, until it is more organized.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will find that there are already
programs for educating children about procreation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is an ongoing, continuing process
that occurs throughout the child’s life until they leave home.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It begins very early.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>It can be easily
shared with children who live on farms and see animals mate to procreate the
next year’s crop of calves or foals, bunnies or chickens.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a natural process that is
oftentimes missed in the cities, where farm animals are not visible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a natural curiosity that is
attendant to growing up and to maturing, and to the awakening mind and the
social awareness of where babies come from.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This curiosity is a natural place to
begin answering children’s questions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What parents must do is not to tell the child how to think, but to offer
these situations as opportunities for decisions about their own sexuality and
their social conduct, in terms that provide them with information to make
reasonable, rational, decisions that support them in their social existence
among their peers, and to help prepare and to build a future where their own
offspring come at a time when they want them, desire them and will then fulfill
the obligations of parenthood to their own children.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3 face=Arial>What is
the proper way to teach children about religion?</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is the proper way for parents to
teach their children about religion?</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
first begins by understanding that there is a Creator, just as there is a
question about where babies come from, there is a question that is unasked by
children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is, “Where did this
world come from?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How did it come
into being?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“How is it that I am
here?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why is this world
present?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“There are stars in the
sky—who made that?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Religion is a
personal relationship with the Creator, the Divine, the Deity Creator of all
that exists, and it exists within that individual, that child.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is never too early to talk to
children about God, and the existence of God, and that there is a personal
relationship.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is important—this
is far more important than teaching children about formalized, institutionalized
religion that is organizational religion, which has its own beginnings—to assist
individuals and groups of individuals to have a formalized process for
worshipping God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But at first and
foremost it begins with a personal relationship between the individual and God,
and this is a responsibility of parents to teach this to their children, just as
they are responsible for teaching their children about sex and procreation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a broad process of socialization
to prepare the individual for their afterlife in the ascendant career, and it
begins with mothers and fathers who love God, and teach their children as well
to love God, rather than to fear God.</FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3 face=Arial>How do
we teach children about medicine and good health practices?</FONT></U></H3>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is the proper way for parents to
teach their children about medicine or good health practices?</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That
the individual is responsible for their own healthcare, that it begins with
their own relationship with themselves, both as a physical being, as a mental
being, a spiritual being, a social being and an emotional being, that their
health encompasses all of these areas and that they are responsible for it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The first part is to become aware of
their feeling out of sorts, whether it is physically, emotionally, socially or
otherwise.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is important the
individual begin to attend to themselves and to be self-observing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Self-observing begins first with
understanding that you have sprained your wrist and that it hurts.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How did it happen?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What do I do about this?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This self-awareness is then a process
that the parent can use to help the child begin to self-observe their inner
structures, the inner structures of their emotions, the inner structures of
their own thinking, to be observant of that and to make choices about how they
think and how they feel, and how they care for their body, and as importantly
and more so, how they care for their mind and their emotions, as this will all
affect their social relationships and their relationship with God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>Physical pain is
not to be blamed upon God, as this is a consequence of injury or illness, and it
was not cast upon this individual as punishment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This idea of fearing God and being
punished destroys the relationship between the individual and God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being aware of your personal self, your
physical self, is simply a matter of becoming aware of your vehicle, that takes
you from here to there, and that you must maintain it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Injuries and illnesses bring our
attention to the physical, and they also injure the relationship between the
individual and God, that being within themselves who loves them so much.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Physical illness and being overly tired
and stressed can affect that relationship, and the individual’s relationship
with themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is also the
responsibility of the parents to point this out to children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>I hope you are
beginning to see the responsibilities of parenthood far, far, far exceeds the
mere nourishment of the body and the housing of the body, and raising the
individual until they leave home.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This simply tells the children that they are possessions, much as a car
that when it is worn out and cannot be repaired, that it is discarded.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This has been the case with many
millions of children in this nation and other nations, where they are simply
possessions, oftentimes not wanted.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is highly destructive to the relationship of the individual with
themselves, with God, with parents and all other people.</FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3 face=Arial>What is
the proper way for parents to educate their children?</FONT></U></H3>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is the proper way for parents to
educate their children?</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
proper way to educate children is to talk to children as a friend, one who is
adult in spirit, but young in personhood.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Many parents have become aware that they are in parentage of spiritual
giants, who have yet to become awakened, developed and able to express their
spirituality and personhood as physical adults.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Their role is to help awaken that giant
within that child to become all that they can be in the eventuality of their
lives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To speak to children in a
condescending manner, as though they are ignorant and less than the adult, is
highly off-putting and counterproductive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>The best way to
talk with children is first to have children that you want, children that you
love, children that you want to care about and want to help awaken their
greatness in their lives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If the
parent does not want the child, did not care to have this child come into their
existence then even before the child is born there will be a barrier between
them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Unfortunately, the way the
dynamics work between the parents—particularly the mother—is that if this child
is unwanted by the mother, this child will be aware of that at the deepest
levels of their psyche, even before they are born, and this will manifest in
many ways in that child’s life as they grow older.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There will be a resistance from the
child as they experience life and the relationship with that parent, other
parents and authority figures.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
way to talk to children is so they know that you love them, and that you welcome
them to be in your life and to share what you know about living a healthy,
vibrant loving life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: red"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I>The Urantia Book</I> mentions several
new religious concepts that will affect how we look at procreation and
parenting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The first of these is
the teaching that parental experience is essential.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would you like to comment on this
before I go on?</FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3 face=Arial>The
importance of parental experience</FONT></U></H3>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes,
please, I would.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If parents do not
see themselves as contributors to the next generation and its successes, then
they will not perceive using their own life experiences as training and teaching
aids to their children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Parents
have tremendous experiences of successes and failures that can be shared with
children, long before the children need to experience those things
themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Parents, however, are
oftentimes reticent and reluctant to share their failures and their successes,
and they are even more reticent to explain how those failures came into
existence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Parents must use their
personal experiences as teaching lessons to their children; not to tell them not
to do that, or to prohibit them from doing such things, but to help the children
understand why those negative experiences came into existence in the parent’s
life, and that the child need not experience them too, if they understand the
decisions and intentions behind the experience that brought about failure.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Life is a system; it is a process of
learning from experiences, both positive and negative, both successes and
failures.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Failure simply says, “Not
this way,” and that this can be shared in very pragmatic terms with children,
far, far earlier than most parents are willing to, because of their own
embarrassment of having failed in their own lives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When parents see themselves as having to
portray a continuing succession of successes, then they set themselves up that
when there are difficulties, that they expect disappointment in the eyes of the
child.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This simply is
counterproductive and leads to greater difficulty in the relationship between
the child and the parent, and the child with themselves, ultimately.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></B></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3 face=Arial>The
privilege of procreation</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><STRONG><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would you like to comment on, “The
enlarged understanding of the privilege of procreation—giving sons to the
Father,” and how it might affect their cultural concepts of procreation and
parenting? </FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
think we have discussed this sufficiently in past sessions that further
discussion may pass over the heads of the readers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would be important to read about the
privilege of parenthood again, to have readers begin to scratch their heads and
wonder about that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(One
moment.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have discussed this
among ourselves and are willing to answer your question in a limited
fashion.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>The privilege of
parenthood is a state of attitude.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is an intention.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
privilege of parenthood would mean that you would have a humble attitude towards
the privilege of begetting several children in your family, as a benefit to your
community, to your society, that you have been awarded this privilege to
procreate children who would be desired not only by yourself and your family of
origin, but your community, your neighborhood, and that they would come by and
shake your hand and give you a big hug, stating how wonderful it is that you
have been selected to have children, and in fact, you have been asked to
procreate four children, and that you have this tremendous privilege that you
have the opportunity to fulfill, if possible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And further, that in the honoring of you
and your partner to have children, that you would then have the support of your
family, your neighborhood and your community to help you in raising these
children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>The honor of
parenting becomes something that is a personal symbol of achievement that you
and your partner represent the best interests of the community for
sustainability, by bringing forth the best possible children, who could
become—not necessarily ‘examples,’ but highly contributing members of their
society, neighborhood, community and with their own families, eventually.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The privilege of parenthood is something
that is rarely seen on your planet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You take parenting as a natural course of becoming an adult, having
sexuality, and it is not seen as something that is a highly privileged position,
one of social acclaim and acknowledgement, and this will change in time and must
change.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I>The Urantia Book</I> mentions that
these new religious concepts, that teaching parental experience is essential,
the idea of procreating cosmic citizens, enlarged understanding that the
privilege of procreation is to make sons for the Father, are to change our
culture mightily.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How long do you
think it will be before we actually see these changes?</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
your terms, a long time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
the intention of the efforts of the Correcting Time, and its missions are to
bring these about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“When” is not a
productive question to ask.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
all developmental and we have only begun the developmental steps within the last
25-30 years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are seeing
tremendous activity now, on our part, to speed up that development to be in tune
with and to precede the difficulties, the difficult era that lies ahead for your
nation and the world.</FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3 face=Arial>Cosmic
citizenship</FONT></U></H3>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you have any comment then on how the
idea of procreating cosmic citizens might affect our culture?</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is not necessary to express that at this point.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The status of “Cosmic Citizen” is far
greater than what most humans on Urantia are capable of encompassing, but of
course it begins by leading a life that desires to be in the company of God, and
to aspire to that ideal, knowing that even along the way there will be many
failures, but these only simply say, “not this way,” “do not do this,” but to
strive to achieve success.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Cosmic
citizenship is an accolade, a station of ascension, which is so remote to most
of you that it is unachievable in your mortal lifetime.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oftentimes, it is not achieved until
long after the individual has been in the morontial realm.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3 face=Arial>The
needs of Indigo and Crystal children</FONT></U></H3>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have heard of the Indigo or Crystal
children being born.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What are their
special needs in order to reach their full potential?</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Loving parents who want the children who come into their life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These children best evolve and develop
in a loving, supportive environment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They are being born all over the world, as we have said numerous times in
the past, but that it is the environment that generates the most capable
qualities of these children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Therefore, you will see children sometimes arising out of the most
despicable social circumstances in the world, to become incredible leaders.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet, those are only one in thousands of
children who are born, who do not ever have the opportunity to grow.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We will see more and more of these
children become evident in developed and maturing nations, which have good
social support systems in place to provide the environmental supports for these
children to develop to their full potential.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will see them in evolved and mature
democracies and other nations, which provide for the development of
children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will see these
children stand out more so in families that are limited in numbers, simply
because there are more resources in smaller nuclear families that are available
for the children to experience and grow through.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Families with 8 and more children have
less capability of providing the supportive environment and resources necessary
for these children to reach and develop their full potential.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are the parents of these children in
need of specific training?</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That
is a choice that they make.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are
striving to make our work visible to many people, so that they have the
curiosity to read about these materials and where they are insufficient to guide
them, that they do their own research into positive and supportive materials
that are available in your society, to assist them to raise their children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The difficulty of helping a world evolve
is that developmentally you must begin somewhere, and of course, you oftentimes
become involved with individuals who had parents who were ignorant, who did not
know any better, and so this is the work of Thought Adjusters, guardians and
celestial teachers and the midwayers to awaken those individuals who are not
raised in supportive environments to become aware and to then seek out the
information and supportive materials in their literature, to assist them to
raise their children to become more aware at an earlier age, and we are making
good progress in this process.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3
face=Arial>Children born with physical or emotional problems</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It seems some problems, such as autism
in our children is on the increase.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What is causing this?</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
have discussed this before, only recently.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I suggest that you review the literature for those answers.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When a child is born with severe
physical or emotional problems, the parents are often unable to cope with the
situation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you have any guidance
for these parents?</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is the advice of the ages of your spiritual and religious leaders that patience,
tolerance and forgiveness are utmost in parents who have these children in their
presence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Procreative individuals
who do not want to raise children with such difficulties are advised to seek out
having their gene structure examined for anomalies or chromosomal breakages and
difficulties such as that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When
they become parents they will have a greater possibility of having children who
are naturally evolving and developing, rather than being disabled emotionally,
mentally, socially and spiritually.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>There will
become an awakening among your populations, particularly of young people and
those in pubescence, to become aware of the difficulty of raising children with
these limitations and handicaps, and that they become aware of the option of
having children or not to have children, and that they use the necessary birth
control procedures to protect themselves from begetting children who are
disabled as you suggest.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will
see then where this situation fits nicely with the privilege of parenting, where
those people who have good gene structures, have the privilege of raising not
one or two, but three or four children, with the assistance of those in the
neighborhood, who chose not to have children, but who want to have the
childrearing experience, which assists everyone to develop the parenting
characteristics and traits that are so desirable in spiritually evolving
individuals.</FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3 face=Arial>The
discipline of children</FONT></U></H3>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Looking at <I>The Urantia Book</I>, I’ve
found Paper 84:7.20:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Among ancient
savages, discipline of children was begun very early; and the child early
realized that disobedience meant failure or even death just as it did to the
animals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is civilization’s
protection of the child from the natural consequences of foolish conduct that
contributes so much to modern insubordination.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would you enlarge a little on the ideas
presented in that last sentence?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your society and
civilization as it advances, becomes more and more remote [from] being attacked
by a predatory animal when you are outside.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, the discipline of self-protection
becomes less and less obvious.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>However, there is discipline that needs to be instilled in children
early, to assist them and protect them from the predators of life in your social
realm.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These can be overly-doting
grandparents, or it could be the sexual predator next door.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Parents must teach their children early
about the realities of life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is not done through fear; it is not done through guilt; it is done through
simply making the child aware of their environment, and not to instill fear in
the child that they are going to be a victim.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a process of becoming aware of
your environment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>Many, many
people in your society are totally oblivious to the environment around them, and
in fact, protect themselves from the environment by listening to their iPods and
other devices, which provide them with entertainment, as they are in the
community walking around or jogging.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This creates a highly unstable, insular, unprotected situation for the
individual, so that they could become a victim.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is little discernment taught to
children early in life, and this skill is vital to all areas of life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Discernment is important to teach
children about how to view individuals, how to see their environment, and to be
observant without being judgmental, and then to make decisions to protect
themselves without falling into guilt, or falling into victimization or falling
into over-protection.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is an
area of learning which is not very well understood in your modern society and
needs to be explored, and methods of teaching children how to be observant and
self-protective in their environment.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many parents are divided or unsure of
how to discipline their children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Do you have any suggestions to help them now, before the parental schools
become established?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes,
most definitely.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let me pause
first, please.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Consistency is
important between the parents in how they discipline the child.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Where you have an overly permissive
parent and an overly dominant, domineering and authoritarian figure, you will
oftentimes have a child who has a split personality, almost a social
schizophrenia, and it sets them up for tremendous difficulty in life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The advice that we can give parents at
this time is to be aware of their style.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There are so many parents who are unaware of their style, their mental
model for parenting and what it should look like.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is simply a reaction to or in
alignment with the way that they were raised.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oftentimes this is dysfunctional at the
least, so it is important that the parents be aware of their parenting style,
and it is important that both parents be aware of their individual styles and
that they come to some reasonable agreement on how to parent the child,
together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a process of
becoming self-aware and is one of the most difficult areas for parents and
parents-to-be to consider.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many
times, children who grow up say to themselves, “I will never treat my children
that way,” but in fact they do exactly the same as they were treated themselves
when they were children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a
process to become self-aware.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
a most difficult situation, as most parents are unaware of their own selves, and
incapable of making decisions about how they think, how they feel, and even what
they say.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Self-awareness is primary
to development and growth for all ages.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: red"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3
face=Arial>Allowing children to fail</FONT></U></H3>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Should we allow children to
fail?</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes,
of course.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Failure is vital to
success.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is just as erroneous to
teach a child to have repeated successes, as it is to tell a child that they
will always fail.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It provides a
child with unreasonable expectations that do not match the realities of life as
they grow up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Always protecting
children, always doing for them where they can do for themselves, sets up the
child to then be a failure in adulthood, and adulthood will last far longer than
the childhood.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Parents must be
willing to let their children be exposed to failure, even to danger, but danger
that is reasonable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your choosing
to raise a child to let them explore their world is vital to the nature of that
child to feed their curiosity, and to explore, and to know where there is danger
and where there is not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Failure is
a highly important part of learning about life; failure does exist.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even dominant teams of individuals
oftentimes fail and it is something to be learned from.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Championship individuals learn to have
greater successes from the failure of others and from their own failures.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Viewing the failure of others helps the
generation become much more successful in ways that do not deal with
competition.</FONT></P>
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style="text-line-through: double"><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></S></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3 face=Arial>Should
the child be placed in competitive situations?</FONT></U></H3>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So it is good to place the child in
competitive situations?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes,
of course, within reason and within reasons of their capabilities for the
potential of success.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To place a
child in a situation where you know they will fail is mean-spirited.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is it good for children to be in sports
that are <I>highly</I> competitive?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is not a desirable situation, but can be tremendously ameliorated by the
attitude of the parents.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If the
parent is highly competitive and the child is in a highly competitive sport,
then there will be great losses of personality development that will take place
in this competitive environment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The child, being in a highly competitive field, however, with parents who
are not competitive, and who assist the child in understanding the competitive
nature of their participation in that sport, will provide the child with a
tremendous understanding of themselves in competition.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, in highly competitive sports
where the difference between winning and losing is in the terms of
1/100<SUP>th</SUP> of a second, then the attitudes of the parents will have a
detrimental effect upon the child’s success to become a winner.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The real attitude toward participation
in the sports that we wish to see evolve and develop, is that this is a field
for personal development—physical, mental, emotional—it is a field of discipline
and that winning or losing is secondary to the evolution of the individual as a
personality in preparation for life as an adult, and in preparation for their
own lives ahead as they become parents.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3 face=Arial>Obesity
in children</FONT></U></H3>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our population has a problem with
obesity, even among children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would
you address this issue, as it appears to have ramifications?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
too, is a matter of self-awareness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is very similar to the parenting problem and it runs in parallel.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you are finding is that your
society and its food culture, and the attitude of individuals about foods is
very similar to competitiveness, in that most people are oblivious of what they
are doing, that they have caloric intakes of 3,000 - 6,000 calories a day, when
they only need calories sufficient to 1500-2000 calories a day.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many are oblivious to this and have a
support system that is oblivious or uncaring, or in fact condones it and
supports it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are many who see
that they are obese, but do nothing about it, do not have the curiosity to
determine whether they are imbibing 5 liters of highly sugar saturated drinks
during the daytime, plus heavy fat meals later.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>Individuals who
truly have a problem are those who have caloric intakes that are very low, but
who continue to gain weight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
body is working to survive and sees itself as being in jeopardy, and so it
changes the endocrine and metabolic processes such that it retains weight.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the main, your societies—and I say
that largely, even past the borders of the United States—are oblivious to
self-awareness, and that it is always ‘out there’ in external, and even the
individual who lives within the obese body, sees their body as ‘out there,’ and
not relevant.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is most
unfortunate and is evidence of a society that is in decline and beginning to
come into decay.</FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3
face=Arial>Bullying is a problem for our youth</FONT></U></H3>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Bullying is another problem for our
youth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Attempts to disallow it in
schools are not working.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you
have any suggestions?</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
too is a product of oblivious parents, parents who are oblivious to the
existence of the child, either as victims or bullies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You live in a highly competitive society
and there is an “in group,” and an “out group,” and the “in group” is in charge
of who is in and who is out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
video game culture promotes aggressiveness and hostility, and there is a
premature endocrine development in children in your society that brings on
masculinity and femininity far too early in youth, and that the aggressiveness
of males has gone from the late teens, now into the early teens and even
pre-adolescent individuals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>This is a
product of many difficulties in your society that have not been addressed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One is unwanted children; another is
self-awareness and the lack thereof; and the lack of what children are doing and
the distancing of parents in their own lives from the lives of their
children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The development of
children who are truly cared for, that they have relationships with others in
which they care for others, even strangers, and that those individuals who are
different are to be appreciated, rather than to be rejected and punished.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a gross insecurity in your
society in being accepted, and that to be accepted and be a part of the “in
group,” means that you reject and punish and destroy those who are different
from yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are seeing again
the destruction, the disintegration and the decay of a society that is beyond
its own control.</FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3
face=Arial>Parental divorce or separation</FONT></U></H3>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have spoken of the ideal, where a
couple comes together and makes the commitment to raise a child to
maturity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Often in our society
there is a break in this commitment through divorce or separation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Laws regulating these situations vary
from state to state, and situation to situation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is there some overarching concept that
you suggest we apply to these situations to ensure the maximum welfare for all
concerned?</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes,
most definitely.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is, although
there are states rights, there are rights of human existence of
sustainability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Social
sustainability is a primary function that has uniform principles and truths to
its promotion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These go beyond
state borders and must eventually be incorporated into state laws, so that there
is uniformity amongst state laws so they promote the best outcome of a socially
sustainable individual family, children and parental relationship.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of the great problems in our society
right now is the high divorce rate among parents who still have children living
at home.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would you please
comment?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
are right!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Pause.)</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m certainly glad that you agree that
this is a problem.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
I would say, sir, “What are you going to do about it?”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When I say “you,” I do not mean
necessarily Michael McCray, but “you, your society.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not only an important social
issue to be concerned about, but it is critical. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In fact, it is survival of your
societies.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I agree and that’s why I’m talking to
you about it, because [you are] one of our great sources of hope and
knowledge.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m hoping that you can
shed some light on this as you have in the past and will continue to do so in
the future.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a problem and I
think you have helped us greatly in understanding how we might solve this
problem by educating ourselves.</FONT></P>
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face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
have an old story that is taught to children about “Chicken Little,” who said,
“The sky is falling, the sky is falling, the sky is falling!”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>and running around, running around,
running around.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have—your
societies—are very much aware of the problems within your societies, yet seem so
incapable of beginning the process of overcoming them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are so many processes and
developments that you have used to “fix” these problems, but no one has really
truly created a process for “solving” them, though we have already provided
guidance to your society in the form of the co-creative social sustainability
design teams, using the “Schematic for Social Sustainability” and the check
points of the three irreducible core values of social sustainability.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In order to overcome marriages that
result in divorce and children who are unwanted, these social problems must be
brought under examination in these teams.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It will require far more than one team, but literally hundreds of them as
you dissect this problem.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3
face=Arial>Families, education and procreation are all related</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>Families,
education and procreation are all related; they are all part of the system of
human existence that leads to sustainability and not only survival of existence,
but to continuing existence that supports its survival and existence, and this
is called “social sustainability.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is our gift to you; we are willing to assist you to engage these
processes, but you will not have any more success than Chicken Little until you
engage this process.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I do not
chastise you; I do not scold you for asking this question, as it is a vital
question to ask, but the tools are there for you to begin to use them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have not only provided the lumber,
but also the hammers, nails, squares, and plumb bobs.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now you must use those resources to
build sustainable societies.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our societies tend to make the fathers
of children, at least partially responsible for the financial aspects of raising
the children they father, but it is only partially effective.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Very little pressure is put on the
fathers to actually assist in raising these children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would you care to comment?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
too must change.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not
sustainable and does not lead to a sustainable society when children are not
given the full benefit of both models—the three models that the father gives and
the three models that the mother gives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Each provides the model of parent as father, also of husband, and also of
man; and for the mother it is as mother, as wife and as woman.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These fixed models are vital to the
development of a balanced social psyche of the individual in relationship to
themselves and to other individuals, and assists them also in choosing
productive mates and partners and mothers of their own children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So it is vital that parents be available
to raise children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>It begins again
with making that conscious choice to have children, to become aware of the
potential of having children—accidentally or intentionally—when that will
determine the fate of themselves, of their partner and of the child for decades
upon decades to come.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Making a
choice to have children actually begins quite early; it begins in the
prepubescent years between 5 and 9 when the individual becomes aware of
themselves as a person in relationship to others as a part of a family,
community and society, and that they will eventually become adults and parents
themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some people choose not
to become adults, and remain in their childhood all their lives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some choose not to have children and so
will become fatherless and motherless and that is a choice.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Others will not give any thought to this
process and have children with abandon and not care for them, or will have
children as an accoutrement to their adulthood, but not really care for what
that child becomes or how they become an adult in the years ahead.</FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3 face=Arial>Dealing
with teen pregnancies</FONT></U></H3>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The schools of Urantia are trying to
deal with the problem of teen pregnancies by keeping the mothers in class and
having a nursery at the school.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Does this encourage more teen pregnancies?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>After you research your statistics to validate your answer, again, it
begins with educating children to delay having children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The process of having mothers in class
to finish high school and able to care for their child while they are going to
school is a “fix” solution; it is something that fixes the problem but does not
create an ongoing permanent solution to your communities and societies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are beginning to see this round,
circular, problem begetting, problem begetting, problem begetting, problem
through our discussion today.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
must be a way out of this for individuals and for society, and that is through
awareness early on of the responsibilities of adulthood, and that those
responsibilities would be shared with children during this pre-pubescent era,
when they begin to form attitudes and opinions about that adult era and begin to
make choices early in that era, about what they will do and what options they
will take, and the actions they will take later in life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These must be instilled early in
children as a part of their educational system, whether it is done by parents or
done by an outside educational agency.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial>It is best done
by parents, but of course if you have ignorant parents, then it will not be
done, and the children must become aware of these responsibilities in some other
way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We suggest that you begin
building educational training models for children, even simulations that could
be engaged with early in life, during this early era, when they begin to learn
how to operate video games.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These
simulations are predictable, and the outcomes can be brought to bear at an early
age to help assimilate the responsibilities of adulthood, and to teach children
apart from ideology the way life works, and does not work.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You see, life is very pragmatic in very
many ways; it is not a mystery; it is not an unknown, as the knowns are very
evident in your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many
decisions that are made are unsustainable and do not contribute to a healthy,
positive, creative contributory life with many personal positive benefits—and
those are known.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Therefore, these
are principles of sustainability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Your world and your society knows all too well the ways that do not work,
but the ways that do work are not taught.</FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3
face=Arial>Society’s obligation to children</FONT></U></H3>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When neither parent is capable of being
a good parent but they decide to keep and raise the child anyway, what is
society’s obligation to that child?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That
is a social decision that must be made at the social level in the community and
in your jurisdictions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have no
opinion that we would share at this time.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have another quote from <I>The Urantia
Book</I>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is from Paper
123:2.5:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“There were few homes in
the gentile world of those days that could give a child a better intellectual,
moral, and religious training than the Jewish homes of Galilee.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These Jews had a systematic program for
rearing and educating their children.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Will we one day see such a systematic program for rearing and educating
our children?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Very
definitely.</FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3 face=Arial>The
concept of “good parenting”</FONT></U></H3>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Will you tell us please, what is your
concept of “good parenting?”</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Parenting has been shot throughout this conversation and previous
conversations, and it is something that is very evident.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>First of all, good parenting involves
the consciousness of the individual as a potential parent, and the choice to be
a parent, and the obligations and requirements of that commitment, and the
intentions for doing so, and then the conscious effort to fulfill that intention
and commitment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These do not come
easily or cheaply in your society, as they are slowly learned [and] are almost
only appreciated by a small percentage of your grandparents, but it is too late
for them to beget children and raise them correctly in this type of system that
you propose.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s all the questions I have for you
today.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I thank you for your being
with us and allowing us to ask you questions.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face=Arial><B>MONJORONSON:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
are most welcome.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have touched
upon the circularity of parenting, the difficulties of parenting and good
parenting. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your society is reaping
the results of poor parenting and the lack of positive input by your major
governmental institutions to assist families in doing that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You live in a society with a tremendous
schism between its respect for individuality and the almost uncaring attitude of
your larger institutions to assist individuals to raise children properly,
consistently and healthfully.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
a most difficult time; we are working with a nucleus of the best of your society
and through our readers and through our listeners.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We hope this expands in the future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our assistance is also through the local
teams that we hope to see develop, and to assist greatly in helping you devise
and write sustainable social policies, both at the family, community,
neighborhood and societal levels.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is a responsibility, yes, even of government, to develop sustainable
social policies that assist the larger society to exist in peace and harmony,
without the advent of bullying or anarchy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Thank you.</FONT></P>
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