Showing posts with label intuition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intuition. Show all posts

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Always listen to your kids intuitions

Last year as we were looking for a Middle School for my daughter I was looking out for Art Schools because my daughter is very into Art. However there where only two art schools that would be available for my daughter to apply to and they were both pretty far from my house.
A neighbor mentioned a school MS 51 that had a big art program and it was very close to my home, yet not in the same district. I was told that I could just go to the Dept of Education and appeal the case and try to convince them to let my daughter into that school.
I thought it was worth the shot. I decided to go to the school's Open House and take my daughter to see if she liked the school and to talk to the principal to see what our options were.
After the Open House was over I asked my daughter if she liked the school. She said that she didn't want to go to that school, that somehow when she went into the school she had a bad vibe, she had a bad feeling as if something bad had happened to her in that school. And yes, I did say that in the past tense. She did feel as if in the past something bad had happened to her there even if that was the first time we ever went to the school.
At this moment I had to make a decision. Should I push my daughter to apply to this school or should I just let it go an not even bother applying.
Well, I decided  to let it go. I went with her gut feeling and did not apply.

Today, one year later I read this article in Yahoo News:

Latin Kings street gang makes Park Slope junior high’s handball courts home base

With this I just realized that if I had not listened to my daughters intuition and pushed her to go to this school who supposedly is in a much better neighborhood than where we live in, then I would have had a heart attack today just to think that my daughter was exposed to gang activity in her own school. I thanked God for giving me the wisdom to listen to my daughter's gut feeling.

I make a call out to everyone out there to listen to your own gut feeling, and if your daughter or son ever tell you that something just doesn't feel right, listen to them, even if it doesn't make any sense at the moment.

It could save your life, or to say the least, a lot of suffering and/or aggravation.
Have you ever had a story similar to this, whether you chose to listen to your instincts or not. I want to hear your story! :)

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