‘A Human Design Fairytale for Children’ by Jasmin Schuster and Virineya Würgler
Human Design Parenting Benefits
It is so fascinating to begin to really see your child for who they are using the framework of the Human Design System. Would you like to recognize the beauty of their authenticity, how they are designed to be respected, and watch them blossom? When your child is raised according to their true nature, it is incredibly rewarding and fulfilling to be a parent. Understanding your child's Human Design honors them and raises them to be their own authority. Facilitating their differentiation by treating them in accordance with their design allows their uniqueness to develop fully.
The majority of us are conditioned to sameness from the moment of birth by well-meaning but unknowing (of our design and true nature) parents. Parents who have been through the system themselves and want what they think is best for us.
Our seven-centered, standard education system fosters the belief that truth can be found somewhere outside of yourself, and that decisions should be made from the mind's logic. We are often told to think things over, make a list, weigh the pros and cons, and so on. We are trained through repetition, tested in the manner that rewards accurate memory of facts, figures, logical ways of conceptualizing and communicating.
This methodology of learning can give us the notion that the most important thing is the ability to recall and repeat the facts fed to us by the collective. We are taught through experiences of standardized tests to compare ourselves to others based on the testing of our mental intelligence as the system defines it. What about emotional intelligence, survival intelligence? Rare is the teacher or school who knows how to nurture a unique being, even rarer still are those who use the Human Design System.
When we question the homogenized methods or fail them as children, we are often met with anger, ridicule or disappointment. If you do not honor your own authority then your opinion of yourself (along with your path through life) could be determined by authorities outside of you. This can lead you to experiencing a life more often filled with resistance (frustration, anger, bitterness, disappointment) rather than fulfillment (satisfaction, peace, success, delight).
What we may be shown through attempting to conform to the homogenized world through conditioning is that the collective ideal of success leaves us feeling empty somehow. Homogenized "success" depends on our conformity to the norm which only some people are designed to excel at. Excel or not, you are ushered into even further structures (college and corporations) that tend to reward you for conforming, following and obeying. Many children are encouraged to leave behind creative dreams their elders tell them are unrealistic or don't make enough money, for careers thought to be more practical and lucrative.
When we try to conform, the experience of mediocrity or failing in the system can weigh heavily upon us. Not to mention the weight of conditioning that comes from decisions made because of adaptive strategies (improve yourself! prove yourself! as an example of the undefined ego center) derived in the openness within us.
If we deviate too far from the prescribed norm, we become intellectual or social outcasts, whether the reason is inability or simple refusal to conform. Subsequently we can be looked down upon when we say what we do when we meet someone new, or looked over if we try to re-enter the system.
To someone who is firmly rooted in an understanding of and appreciation for who they are, the opinions and judgements of others mean very little. The pure frequency of such a being is not susceptible to conditioning and homogenization as is someone who is unaware. Therefore their experience of resistance in terms of anger, bitterness, frustration and disappointment does not characterize the life that they live.
By learning your child's unique Human Design and treating them accordingly, you can bestow them with the gift of self-acceptance. The gift of respecting and guiding them to treasure their uniqueness in a correct way will continue to benefit them for the rest of their life.
More and more children and young adults are discovering Human Design. Their process is much easier than the difficult experience of deconditioning that we adults have to go through. As an adult (we reach maturity at our Uranus Opposition, between 38-44 years of age) you have deeply ingrained habits learned from a lifetime of conditioning. Habits form grooves in your brain, patterns in your behavior and beliefs about what is true. It's difficult to change long-seated beliefs and patterns. The older you get, the harder it is to change. How different would life have been for you had you been parented in a way that honored the dynamics of your unique being? How different would life had been if you had known how to decide what to do?
Human Design Parenthood is Rewarding
It is no small task when we shoulder the responsibilities of parenting. We perform the privilege of guiding a unique consciousness as to how to function in this Maia - this illusion of separateness.
The life of a parent is a challenging thing. Suddenly you have a being constantly absorbing everything that you do and learning from your example by imitating. They evolve with your nurturing and are helpless in that respect. Will you nurture them to be the shining example of who they really are? Or will you mold them into the image of what you think they should be?
With awareness, the choice is clear. Now that you have Human Design, you can see the map of the energies that makes your child unique. Understanding Human Design can help you wake up to the conditioning that clouds your perception, not only of your children but of others in your life and yourself as well.
In the first seven years of life the patterns of a child's behaviors are established. Every time you interact with a child, you create opportunities for conditioning. Conditioning (adaptive behaviors) happens when our minds try to protect the openness in our design. Elders generally feel it’s their responsibility to tell younger ones what to do - what to think, how to behave, what to feel, what to watch out for and fear. Essentially passing on a conditioned mindset they were taught rather than putting the child in touch with their unique authority.
With awareness of the openness in their design, those painful conditioned behaviors can be explained and understood. Offering unconditional love of the child through the lens of their unique Human Design and treating them accordingly is an incomparable way to nurture their abilities, talents and gifts.
Aware Human Design Parenting
Following your own Strategy and Authority allows you to make decisions that lead to expressing a clearer and clearer frequency of what it is to be you. Authenticity makes you a great role model for your child.
Treating your child according to their type is the most fundamental way you can honor and respect who they are. Encouraging your child to follow their unique Strategy and Authority gives them a tremendous advantage in life. Learning how to navigate decision-making for themselves and empowering them to trust that they can choose what’s right for them benefits their lives in the best way possible.
Recognizing your, and your children's, true nature through treating everyone according to their design not only helps circumvent conditioning, it shows respect. In this way, you are modeling what it means to honor each other's uniqueness.
Want a detailed description of the guiding principles of parenting according to your child's Human Design by Type? I invite you to listen to Ra Uru Hu's lectures, A Human Design Guide to Parenting.
Seeing the mechanics behind behaviors allows you to understand the cause of situations. Knowing your family's individual designs, how they interact and are affected by each other gives you the ability to understand family dynamics. This allows you to use specific solutions for their individual needs rather than using homogenized, conditioned responses.
Human Design can bring you relief as it shows you why you may be extra-sensitive to your child's emotions or they to yours. It can show why this child is clingy and why that one is so independent, ending the comparison of ever thinking or saying, “Why can't you be like so-and-so?” It can help you accept and nurture what makes your children so special and unique, empowering them to be themselves.
Once you have the foundation of Strategy and Authority established, you’re ready for the next steps. Examine their Profile for an understanding of the costume they wear, and address their Personal Health Strategy. I highly recommend Jovian's Parenting Package for comprehensive education on how to raise your child according to their unique design. This is particularly helpful if you have multiple children and not enough money to buy each a reading. Personally I found this package very helpful in raising my own child. If you would like personal guidance in looking at your child, I offer a special on kid's readings (ages 0-29) you can sign up for in the graphic above.
There is no greater gift for a child than to be seen, loved, accepted and respected for who they are by their parents. With Human Design, you can give your children this gift. Understanding the dynamics at play means more opportunities to exhibit genuine expressions of caring, compassion, kindness and love; especially during moments when stress levels are up.
Would you like to read more free content that dives into how to parent your child by Type? I have also shared my personal Human Design Parenting experience. Are you ready to empower your parenting and your child?
By Andrea Abay-Abay
A version of this article originally appeared on JovianArchive.com home of the Human Design System
Parenting by Your Child's Human Design Type
Why and How to Parent According to
Your Child's Human Design Type
by Laveena Archers
(Plus My Human Design Parenting Experience Below)
Laveena (Projector) and her daughter (Emotional Manifesting Generator)
"Your children are not your children;
they are life longing for itself." Khalil Gibran
All of us want to belong on a deeper level,
and we all feel that deep longing to know our place.
Since we are here, we have a part to play in the grand pattern of life.
Truly belonging requires we play our authentic role
—or we risk feeling hollow, lost—
as though we’re not living our purpose.
That feeling of belonging requires self-knowledge and self-acceptance.
Acceptance leads to self-love—
nurtured when we’re guided in how to live honoring our nature,
rather than how others think we should live.
Human Design Parenting
Ra introduced us to one of the most important topics
within this System—Human Design Parenting.
This knowledge is primarily here for our children.
HUMAN DESIGN'S primary benefit
is to those who haven’t yet been deeply conditioned.
And while living authentically
and with greater understanding
supports our process,
it is through us this knowledge
can reach future generations
and change the frequency of this planet—
one being at a time.
Human Design empowers our children
to make choices that are true to who they are.
In Ra's Words...
I had this extraordinary experience not too long ago.
I had a visit, a mother and child. Supposedly the child had problems. It was so interesting, this projection.
I’ve had a favorite saying for so many years: people in white hats doing black work. It’s really nice that you love your children.
It does not mean you’re being an advantage for them in this life at all.
The fact that you love them, truly in a sense, doesn’t really mean anything.
It is the knowing of them.
~ Ra Uru Hu
Can you relate Ra’s quote to what parents feel within themselves?
That "I love my children" goes without saying.
We love them because loving our children
is our genetic instinct as parents.
We often struggle and lack time
to raise children in the way we envision,
but there is always strength
coming from our love
and the instinct to keep them
as safe and happy as possible.
We parents carry a lot of pressure
that combines with the pressure taken in from society.
This creates confusion and doubts,
particularly around our educational paradigms.
Confusion prevents us parents from clearly seeing what kind of child we brought into the world, and we end up devoting too much attention to how children should behave to fit into society and be successful.
Consider that most parents
who don’t know any better
project their own values and expectations
onto their children
during their most impressionable
and vulnerable conditioning stages of life.
Most of this derives from deep, fear-based conditioning patterns, so children learn how to fear the world and fight their way through it...
...instead of learning how to trust in themselves.
Centering on Your Child
with Human Design Parenting
PsychologyToday.com states: “A study found that parents who were the most child-centric were also happier and derived greater meaning in life from having children."
‘These findings suggest that the more care and attention people give to others, the more happiness and meaning they experience. From this perspective, the more invested parents are in their children’s well-being — that is, the more ‘child centric’ parents are — the more happiness and meaning they will derive from parenting.’ Ashton-James et al. (2013)”
Many parenting books
try to offer the perfect solution
on how to raise and feed children.
And while they offer
some very valuable insights and tools,
the truth is that there is a unique way to treat each child.
To educate with love is to allow the child to be themselves,
no matter how the outer world conditions and influences them.
We see an enormous difference in children who are respected and raised to follow their natural way of operating and deciding.
Treating your children
according to their Human Design
creates a parent/child relationship
of greater mutual trust and lightness of being.
With Human Design Parenting, parents are no longer seen as the authority but as engaging mentors providing a safe environment where children can evolve.
Giving children the freedom to be their own authority may seem scary at first!
But this allows us as parents to guide our children to become themselves—no more, no less—exactly what the world needs.
Human Design shows you what your child is here for, what avenues of life are going to be their strengths and capabilities.
Human Design helps you understand the functions in life your children are here to express.
Rather than seeing something wrong with a child who appears “lazy,” a parent can embrace their child’s difference and celebrate it.
Fulfilling your purpose requires that you are different from others, because this is why we 9-Centered humans are here—to be vastly different from one another.
Being able to see your child
for what and who they are
is the first step
in transcending the limitations
contemporary culture places
on you and your parenting.
Embracing the Uniqueness of your Child
Here are some free audios
by Ra Uru Hu, founder of the Human Design System
on Children by Type
and below that Defined & Undefined Solar Plexus Children:
Manifestor Children
Teach them manners (to ask permission as polite informing)
Generator Children
Ask them yes/no questions and respect their response
Projector Children
Invite them into things and encourage them to study what you recognize "turns them on"
Reflector Children
Observe them as the barometer of the family and never rush them to decide; give them 28.5 days minimum
Defined Solar Plexus Children
Teach them to cultivate patience
Undefined Solar Plexus Children
Help them express emotion without attachment
In Ra's Words...
For me, the whole thing is to embrace the uniqueness of your child… It’s got to be clear to you that this is a question of consciousness.
I will give you nice techniques.
But really, you have to grasp that this is about consciousness, it’s about being aware.
And it’s about seeing that the moment that you have the gift—it’s a gift—to be able to see the design of your children, your friend’s children, your grandchildren, whatever it may be, that in that gift of being able to see them you can give them something very special.
You can give them guidance that will enrich the rest of their lives, and will allow them to stay within themselves despite what the world around them is. This is what it’s all about.
~ Ra Uru Hu
These quotes from Ra were taken from A Human Design Guide to Parenting,
available on Jovian Archive, home of the Human Design System
My Human Design Parenting Experience:
When I came to Human Design, there were many things about my 5-year old daughter and my relationship with her that confused, frustrated and bothered me.
Using the framework of Human Design to understand our interactions helped relieve my stress, anxiety and worry. Below I share some examples of how Human Design helped me understand us and our relationship.
Here's her Human Design chart ( and mine further down - my birth name was Andrea):
My Overzealous "Natural Parenting"
As you can see, she has the Sacral Center (red square) very strongly defined via three channels. I amplify her powerful generator motor with my undefined Sacral.
I tried to be the best mama possible and studied like crazy before she was born, even going on to obtain a parenting certification, starting a holistic mom's group, and doing everything I could to ensure she had every advantage I could give her.
My overzealous parenting began immediately. I remember coming home from the hospital the day I'd given birth and, unable to sleep that night next to them, I got up to clean the kitchen in the wee hours of the morning. Overzealous? Who me?
When she was born, I thought I was doing what was best for her by co-sleeping, baby wearing whenever possible, only breast-feeding... and I totally burnt myself out by the time she was 6-months old due to lack of sleep and utter exhaustion.
I vividly remember how completely fried I felt and how almost I wanted to throw that crying baby at my husband. That's when I moved myself into the guest room to sleep alone and my doctor prescribed me anti-depressants.
Now I know that my Projector body could not sustain the constant contact with her Manifesting Generator form combined with the super-mom routine I'd thrown myself into.
My Personality Earth Compromised
Another major mechanic; her channel of Discovery (29-46) compromises my Personality Earth in Gate 29.
As she grew I used to get resentful about always needing to do what she had the energy to do and not relaxing with a book or just music as I wanted, to rest and recover my energy.
Gate 29 is about Perseverance; it's the Gate of Saying Yes, of Commitment.
Because she has the Sacral defined and that entire channel, in our relationship, I learned from Human Design to ask her yes/no questions to determine what she responds to.
As she got older I could explain and show her the graph so she understood it wasn't personal, there is nothing wrong with either of us, just that we are very different.
Thanks to Human Design, Now I know how to hold my boundaries and not over-do it so that I don't get overwhelmed and have meltdowns from exhaustion.
My Daughter's Totally Open Splenic Center
My then husband became disabled after a surgery made a pre-existing condition worse and within 18 months of her birth I had to go back to work.
See how my daughter has a totally open Splenic Center (white inward-pointing triangle on the left)? Mine is undefined as well. She was a clingy baby, always wanting attention and entertainment (she is reading this and says I still want attention and entertainment).
When I left home for work regularly she bonded very deeply to my defined Splenic husband, now a stay-at-home dad. When I moved out I was so very saddened when we divorced that she wanted to live with him instead of me. I took it personally (I have a Color 6, Personal Perspective) that she would cry for him every night when she stayed at my house.
When I finally saw all of our designs I understood how powerful the sense of safety and security was that she felt with him and it didn't bother me anymore.
Here's my Human Design Chart:
My Daughter's Totally Open Root Center
As you can see I've got a defined Root Center (brown square at the bottom) while my daughter has no gates as a dormant potential there.
Getting places on time was something I myself simply HAD TO DO. I did everything in my power to always be chronically early and intensely disliked being even a few minutes late.
Boy did I have to let that go as a parent! My daughter did not know when to hurry, and I both unknowingly and knowingly pressured her to hurry up.
It frustrated me that she just couldn't get herself together to go places and I had to constantly harp on her to get her out the door.
My daughter
Oh how glad I was to understand this dynamic between us, and learn the simple tools of asking her yes/no questions.
When I learned more about the deeper levels of her Human Design (she is Guilt Motivated, I am Desire; for those familiar with Rave Psychology) even more things made sense and became easier to deal with and accept.
I'm incredibly grateful for the power of Human Design in our lives.
I could go on and on with more examples about the things I've learned which have helped me be a better parent to my daughter!
Just one of the many benefits this system has had in my life is better relationships with the people I love—rather than putting pressure on myself or them, or taking things personally, I can see the dynamics at play, accept it and love us all throughout, no matter what.
("YAY!" says my daughter)
I hope you enjoyed this article. Please feel free to comment or ask questions below.
I wish for everyone the wonder of watching your child blossom into the completely unique being they were born to be, as I am watching mine.
Love Yourself (and Your Kids!) As you Are. For you are Perfectly Designed.
All my love to you and your family,
Laveena
PS. Stacey offers Child Development Analysis if you would like guidance from a Certified IHDS Professional to help you with understanding and raising your child according to their design. Click the image below to learn more!
A shorter, previous version of this article originally appeared on JovianArchive.com. Reprinted with permission.
