Human Design 101 For Parents

While Human Design is gaining popularity with the spiritual/self-help/Millennial crowds (and is of course beneficial for those looking to better understand themselves and step more fully into their lives), the truth about its origins - and one of my favorite facts about it - is that at its core it was truly meant for parents!

Human Design is a tool meant for insights into our individuality, preferences, and ways of engaging and interacting with the world. And what a beautiful concept that parents could use this to better understand their child (literally from birth) and to help encourage them in the ways that are energetically correct for them. Even just knowing your child's Type can help with understanding their relational, play, and sleep patterns better, and is such a gift to be able to give your child.

If you know your child's birth time, you can easily find out their Type by plugging in their birth time and location here, and then use the below info as a starter for learning more ways you can better encourage your little ones to embrace the uniqueness of who they are.

Manifestor Children

Recognize the strong and powerful energy your child has, and respect their ability to take charge and initiate ideas and action in this world, even from a very young age. Give them freedom to move and make decisions, and teach them their Strategy of informing when they get an idea to try something and let them try things out, while still teaching politeness and ensuring their safety as they explore the world in age-appropriate ways.

Generator Children

Encourage the Sacral excitement of your Generator child! Honor and listen for their vocal "ah-huh's" and "uhn-uh's" and allow them to proceed accordingly with things that do or do not excite them. They're meant to be busy and active until their Sacral energy is used up, which is what allows them to sleep soundly. So don't force naps or bedtime before they're tired, instead try giving them an activity that can help use up their energy and wind them down for sleep.

Projector Children

As a parent of the more sensitive Projector Types, it's important for you to understand your own energy mechanics in order to support them and understand how it is they interact with healthy energies early on. If you can teach them what it looks like to recognize themselves for their gifts and interests, and how to recognize a healthy invitation for them to share their knowledge and gifts with others, you'll be setting them up to have a healthy level of self-love and acceptance, and assurance for how they'll go on to share their gifts with the world on a broader scale.

Reflector Children

Knowing your child operates on a lunar schedule and encouraging them to learn how to develop at their own pace will be such a gift to them. When you're intentional not to rush them and can be patient with letting them play out a full lunar cycle before making any big decisions, you'll be honoring their unique Strategy. Finding them a supportive learning environment that nurtures their development process is key. And remember that since they reflect back their surroundings, paying attention to when they're thriving and healthy or sick and sad will give you cues as to the quality of the environment they're in and how to make adjustments accordingly.

Manifesting Generator Children

Your child is high energy and multi-passionate, and it's so good for them to be encouraged to follow what lights them up and let them change directions or interests without correcting them or getting them to try to follow a linear path. Honor their Sacral excitement and ask yes or no/this or that questions to see which answers or directions they're drawn to. Help them find other MG's following unconventional paths (i.e. Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba, Tony Robbins, etc.) they can look up to and learn from in order to see what's possible for their life.