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They are trapped not by any religious obliga ons or moral restraints but by a self-imposed irra onal belief, “It is awful if others don’t like me.” This belief is part of the allure of gangs, “If I am a member of this gang, then they like me and I can reject all these others (parents, teachers, peers) that give me a hard me about how I am making mistakes.”
There are adult beliefs that parallel each of the childhood irra onal beliefs of Waters’ study. If you were to conduct “belief studies” with adults who are chronically dissa s ed with themselves, their jobs, their lives, you would see parallel adult versions beliefs of these childhood irra onal beliefs.
It is our irra onal beliefs about ourselves, others, life, and our future that is at the core of our life problems and unhappiness. Most adults fail to realize is that our problema c beliefs start in childhood, but they can be changed or modi ed to be more realis c beliefs during this childhood developmental period.
It is for this reason that we developed the series of fables that comprise The Adventures of Cosmos Crow. The stories in this series use the power of the metaphor to modify and change irra onal beliefs to more e ec ve ra onal beliefs. You have the opportunity to help this change occur by helping your child understand these stories.