Real-life tips for raising emotional MGs using their Human Design for more calm and less chaos.
As a 1/3 Sacral Generator married to a 1/3 Emotional Manifesting Generator (MG), raising a 2/4 Emotional MG teen son and a 3/5 Emotional MG teen daughter, let’s just say dinner time can be a vibe.
The only Human Design profile line not represented in our house is a 6. (So if you’re a 6-line reading this, we’re hiring lol).
Over time, I’ve learned to adapt how I parent using Human Design, and wow, it’s made a huge difference. So while we’re in the thick of school holidays, I thought I’d share how I navigate life in a house full of emotional waves, big decisions, and kids learning to trust themselves. Because ‘happy home, happy life’, am I right?!
1. Sacral responses need something to respond to:
If you’ve got Sacral beings in your house (hello, Generator or MG kids), the classic ‘What do you want for dinner?’ is a terrible question. Cue blank stares, shrugs, and the dreaded ‘I dunno’.
Instead, I give options.
‘I’m cooking with chicken: do you feel like a chicken pasta bake or a parmi?’ Suddenly, it’s easy for them to tap into their gut and give me a real answer.
Bonus: This also helps me as a Generator. When I’m low on creative juice, I can ask them to give me something to respond to. Win: win.
2. Emotional authority? Don’t expect instant clarity:
My husband and both kids are emotional authorities. Which means I’ve had to learn that their best decisions don’t happen in the moment, even if it feels like they’re sure.
Take my daughter, who recently got all excited about a sleepover after school. I gently suggested she sleep on it. Later that night, she texted me to say she actually wanted to go to a different friend’s house instead, and told me exactly why it felt more aligned.
Same with my son, who’s choosing Year 12 subjects. I told him to make a rough draft list, but not to submit it yet. Let it simmer. Come back to it. See what still feels good tomorrow (and the next day). Emotional clarity takes time. And it’s so worth waiting for, aka no impulsive regrets later.
3. Teaching kids to check in with themselves:
When my daughter asks to go somewhere or do something (usually social), I often ask her to imagine herself doing it. Like, really visualise the vibe. Then check in: does it still feel good?
Sometimes, she decides a quiet day at home actually feels better. Other times, she’s all in. Either way, she’s learning to pause, feel, and trust herself.
That’s huge. Especially for those with emotional authorities, who are so often encouraged to override their feelings with logic or pressure to say yes right now.
4. Riding the emotional wave (without trying to fix it):
One of the biggest shifts for me has been learning not to ‘fix’ emotions, especially when someone’s in a low part of their emotional wave. When my kids were toddlers, I used to try to stop the meltdown. (Cue me absorbing all the feels, trying to soothe, bribe, or distract.)
Now, I let them feel it. I remind them I’m here, but I don’t take on their emotional wave as mine.
Having an undefined emotional centre (like me) means I feel it amplified, so it can feel like a lot (understatement right there). But it’s not mine to fix. And they don’t need saving. They just need space to feel.
5. Letting the 3-line experiment without shame:
My daughter has a 3 in her profile, like me. She’s forever wanting to try new things. I don’t make her wrong for it.
As a kid, I was told I ‘never stuck to anything’: callisthenics, gymnastics, jazz ballet… You name it. But now I know: the 3-line is meant to experiment. We have to try something to know if it works for us. We learn through lived experience.
So when she’s hopping from one activity to another, I don’t shut it down. I cheer her on (mostly lol). But she has to see out the term and not quit partway through.
6. Honouring the 2-line need for alone time
Meanwhile, my son (2/4 profile) has zero interest in sleepovers. He loves seeing his mates, but then wants to go home. Sleepovers mean sharing his space, and by the next morning, he’s done with peopling haha.
It’s been a game changer, realising that’s not antisocial. It’s just his design. He needs his downtime to recalibrate. My daughter, on the other hand, would live at other people’s houses if she could.
Neither is wrong. Just different.
Why Human Design has changed everything in our family:
Learning about Human Design hasn’t made parenting ‘perfect’ (not a thing), but it has made it way more compassionate, spacious, and aligned.
Whether you’ve got a house full of emotional authority MGs or you’re the only one with a defined Sacral, Human Design helps you understand your people on a whole other level. It’s not about labels, it’s about language. And when you get the language of your family, things just flow differently.
So next time you’re in the middle of dinner decisions, emotional highs, or a flurry of ‘Mum, can I…?’”, try bringing a bit of Human Design into the mix. You might be surprised what shifts.
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