Category: Parentship

I wrote this last year but the same thoughts came running back this year as my son celebrated his birthday this week. Birthdays are always bittersweet.  When they are your own you look at them as another year older and we get to the point where we just starting counting the years because we like to live in a place where father time does not win year after year.  When we are younger how we loved those birthdays to give us the badge of honor that we were getting bigger.  Our family just celebrated one of these bittersweet days with our son turning 6 years old.  Something he has been counting down to for the last 6 months.  Not a Read more…

     I love quotes and everything about them.  They can pick you up when you are feeling down, give you a different perspective on a topic, and the thing I love most about them is the little insight into the minds of amazing people.  There are many great business minds out there with years of experience working with people and organizations.  Here are a couple of quotes from great business leaders that we can apply to our families to help us find success. The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. – Ken Blanchard      One of the reasons I first started this blog was through all my reading and study on leadership I found how interchangeable Read more…

     I have so many things I want to teach my children.  It seems there is never enough time in the day to tell them all the things I think they should know.  With how busy life gets with all the different things that are vying for attention, there is not much time for me to be able to just sit down with them and tell them the things I need them to know.     When that time does come where we have a few minutes together and the opportunity lends itself for me to put my dad hat on and impart some wisdom I have to take advantage.  So I spend the time telling them what I think Read more…

       I’m starting with the man in the mirror.  I’m asking him to change his ways.  And no message could have been any clearer.  If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and them make a change.  It’s okay, you can keep singing because I know you were.  Read it again and you can even do a sing-along.       Regardless if you are a Michael Jackson fan or not, the message in this song rings home for us as parent leaders.  As we seek out to develop the leadership ability of the members of our family we need to start with that person in the mirror.  We live in an ever-changing world Read more…

    What did you want to grow up to be when you were younger?  I know we all had amazing dreams to become an astronaut, a firefighter, or maybe even a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.  Don’t laugh there was a time where I might or might not have wanted to grow up to be a Ninja Turtle.  I mean fighting crime, know karate, and all I needed was some radioactive ooze to make it happen.  What can I say I had big plans.     As I grew older I realized that my lofty dreams of becoming a Ninja Turtle were not going to pan out.  So I set my sights just a bit lower and just wanted to Read more…