Category: Parentship

     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…

    Two books that have greatly influenced the way I look at leadership and parenting are the books QBQ! The question behind the question by John G. Miller and Good Leaders Ask Great Questions by John Maxwell.  There is even a great QBQ! book for the parent.  Both of these books are great reads and I encourage you to take a look at both of them as you look to better your parenting and leadership skills for your family.  Both of these books explain the most important things we can do as leaders is to ask questions.      Not just the easy questions, but questions that will make us grow to become more than what we are now.  John Miller states that “turning our Read more…