Ok so, given what week it is, I've been having a lot of nerves and anxiety running through my head, so I'm sort of making extra plans for the next few months for myself, but I was just thinking it would be awesome if there were other people to share notes on astral parenting with? Notes that would be similar to my situation I mean.
And I have my own notes and ideas and things from last year of course, and I've made my own observations and conclusions about my situation, but it's just that every other person I've seen mention astral children is reporting either a child already basically appearing fully autonomous, sometimes without a birth process, knowing how to talk and everything, and if not that, then the growth process through adulthood happens in under a year. I've only spoken to one person that seemed to still have their child as--well, a child, and it had been over a year or two of time passed with them but the child was still under 5 or so? (I think)
So for me, considering that I'll still be more or less raising mine for the next ten years at least, I don't see anyone that would have notes on that. I have all this stuff I want to compare like:
-do the kids seem to know their astral care-takers better than you
-does that change over time? How is dealing with the separation anxiety?
-how many caretakers did you end up seeking out other than the one partner?
-how much talking did you do to them before they spoke back
-how were things in their development through early childhood, like learning special skills, recognizing your voice, naturally picking up non-corporeal movement, weird stuff like that...What age were they when they could do what your astral partner can do, and come interact with you on their own?
-are there language barriers that come up because they're hearing astral beings talking more than they hear you? Have they eventually been able to help you travel even though they're younger?
-what about education and things like that, how was it to negotiate what you did and didn't want them learning, and from whom, and when, and how fast
-anyone else had the problem I had last year, with the extra new deity energy attracting other weird entities to your house? My wards are stronger this year so I'm not having too much trouble with that this time yet, but still...
-the children need friends other than each other, it's only healthy, was it easy to manage your spirit partner bringing the kids, and then maybe having other younger spirit types in your space also (maybe pets?) DID THIS GET HECTIC AND BLOCK UP YOUR OTHER SPIRITUAL INTERACTION
-Was the transition from using your energy to using their own more gradual after they were born or was it suddenly cut off after delivery?
-after five or so years I wonder if my ability to communicate with the kids will be even easier/clearer/more direct than with Loki because they're part human??
...Parents usually have books and references for these things??? So. I'm kind of just winging it over here and will be doing so for the next two decades I guess? I mean yes, Loki helps of course but there's still my own (annoyingly human) part to do and it would be nice to have some other insight on different experiences that happen during an astral child's growth over a long term.
Again, I've got my own ideas but notes are really good for this type of thing, if for no other reason than to deal with the whole 'feeling isolated' thing that's starting to come up. Today Ember and Cinder were more active than ever, and it kept stinging during work, and it's probably going to get worse in the next few days and then I thought in depth about the next two to four years, and just "I WONDER HOW OTHER PEOPLE WOULD HANDLE THIS?"
