Kids and Tarot

[StarPhoenix]

Have two questions.

Question 1: Is it alright to do a reading with kids around? Especially if they are under 5.

Question 2: Is it alright if I let my 3 year old play with a tarot deck that I'm not really using? he likes the pictures on the cards whenever he sees them :)

[LisaT4P]

Question 1: Is it alright to do a reading with kids around? Especially if they are under 5.Yes, but they (the kids) can be a distraction. For yourself is good, but if you have a client it does sometimes become a problem. :)Question 2: Is it alright if I let my 3 year old play with a tarot deck that I'm not really using? he likes the pictures on the cards whenever he sees them :)Yes! In fact, you could even get them their own deck. The Whimsical Tarot has images from nursery rhymes. My daughter received the Hanson Roberts deck when she was about 9 yrs. old. I gave tarot decks to my friend's kids one year for Yule.

[Keith Dragon]

Have two questions.

Question 1: Is it alright to do a reading with kids around? Especially if they are under 5.

Question 2: Is it alright if I let my 3 year old play with a tarot deck that I'm not really using? he likes the pictures on the cards whenever he sees them :)

Yes to both questions. In fact, I think it's a great idea. The Tarot is a great tool to illustrate to the different aspects of life, and being that most kids tend to think visually more then literally, it's a great learning tool.

This doesn't mean that you should give the mthe cards and not keep a parenting eye on them. Let them roam free with them with you keeping a pleasant eye for any anomolies that appear in their behavior.

[stella01904]

Question 1: Is it alright to do a reading with kids around? Especially if they are under 5.
MM ~ Unless they are pitching a tantrum, why wouldn't it be?
Question 2: Is it alright if I let my 3 year old play with a tarot deck that I'm not really using? he likes the pictures on the cards whenever he sees them :)I don't see any harm in it as long as he doesn't eat them! :santasmil
BB, Stella

[Temptation]

Have two questions.

Question 1: Is it alright to do a reading with kids around? Especially if they are under 5.

I've been doing readings with my kid around ever since she was a baby. Never had a problem,other than trying to keep her curious little hands off the spreads. :lol:

Question 2: Is it alright if I let my 3 year old play with a tarot deck that I'm not really using? he likes the pictures on the cards whenever he sees them :)

It's fine, as long as you don't mind if the cards get a little sticky. :lol:
Or you could get him his own deck. The Whimsical Tarot is great for kids.

[Janjuh]

I had no idea about The Whimsical Tarot. I am going to have to get a deck for my neice... Are there any pictures of the deck online by any chance?

[Temptation]

I had no idea about The Whimsical Tarot. I am going to have to get a deck for my neice... Are there any pictures of the deck online by any chance?

Here ya go. :)

http://www.phoenixskye.com/whimsical.htm

[Janjuh]

Thanks so much! That was very helpful. I might try to local new age store tomorrow. If they don't have it, Ebay it is.. lol!

[StarPhoenix]

Thanks everyone. I had heard that having kids around while doing a reading wasn't good because of their energy would go to the cards and mess it up (or something like that). Good to know that isn't the case.

Thanks for the suggestiong of the whimsical tarot, don't think my son will go for it much, for some reason he's not much into nursery rhymes and the like but more toward dragons and unicorns, but might like to pick it up for me :lol:

[cjtarot]

Hi,

My experience has been with older kids (7 to 9) who have a clue what your saying to their parents during a reading..I found myself tempering what I said..it was not fun. As for my girls, they were told not to touch the cards when I was reading and for the most part that worked.


NOW as for playing with the cards, Tarot started as card a game (have no clues about the rules).

One fun game is Go Fish. It will teach them about suites, numbers (roman numbers) We did use the Major Arcana as a suite in itself. It was fun. (think I used the Robin wood and the Universal Waite decks).

Cj

[LisaT4P]

I also play solitaire with my cards. :) I think there's a thread in here that someone (Amethyst?) posted with Tarot Games. Have a look 'round.

Also you can always go to www.aeclectic.net (http://www.aeclectic.net) or www.tarotgarden.com (http://www.tarotgarden.com) to see sample images from decks.

[Amber Wynd]

Thanks everyone. I had heard that having kids around while doing a reading wasn't good because of their energy would go to the cards and mess it up (or something like that). Good to know that isn't the case.


It never bothered me to have my daughter around when I was reading, but she got really bored with the tarot when I started giving professional readings. In fact, she says it kind of ruined the whole thing for her for a while. She avoided even coming into the room when I was giving a reading because it grated on her nerves. Now that she's on her own, she reads for herself and her friends, but she still doesn't like to hear me work.

[Brighid's Seeker]

For me it depends on who I am reading for and their tolerence of having my children around, or alternately what the gut feeling I get tells me.

Both my kids have their own decks. My son sometimes shocks me with his insight. My friends let him practice on them and apparently he is quite good.

[Ladylepgirl]

I not only do readings around my kids, I have the Children's tarot for my son who wanted a deck to learn from. I've done readings for them, and they are just amazed how much Mommy knows about what they've done in school, or with friends that day:hahugh:

[business voodoo]

I don't see any harm in it as long as he doesn't eat them!

ok ... steal my advice ... and one day, my glyph will be a picture of this so watch for it ... my daughter (age appx. 2) ate the middle of my mother peace justice card ... less than two days after i bought them. i replaced it with the 'invocation' card and kept going, but it thought it was absolutely PERFECT that she ate justice of all the cards. when she was 3, she picked "her card" ... ace of wands.

by all means, play games with them, run spreads with them ... besides using the kids menus at restaurants for her training, she learned how to read by reading the animal totem poems for the medicine cards.

some days though, as they get older, it can become a pain in the butt ... like when you are having an off day and they go and pull a meditation card for you ... and they say "mommy, time out and think about this!" of course, its gotta be something like the 5 of cups (my nemesis) ... or, worse, deer reversed ...

the deer's totem poem: "deer ... so gentle and loving you are. the flower of kindness, an embrace from afar."