Performance Focused Parenting | Part 1

Parenting On Purpose

What is the Focus of Parenting?

Have we put so much emphasis on the “success” of our kids that life has simply become racing from one activity to another? Society would have us believe that our children need to be academically, socially and athletically successful to be ready for the adult world. So childhood flies by in a whirlwind of homework and practices.

We touched on this topic when we discussed time management but we need to take this concept a step deeper. Have we gotten to the point as parents that we have become our children’s performance enhancement drug? Have we placed so much pressure on our children to succeed that they may be missing out on the very basics of childhood? Picturing childhood should conjure up images of swings, ice cream cones and times filled with imagination.  But these pressures have been placed on our children as early as elementary school. There are areas that need to be developed in our children in order to be marriageable and employable, such as the art of conversation or even think time, that need some down time in order to be taught. We need to remember that we are raising a human being and not a human doing.

This week we will be discussing performance focused parenting as we do make sure to take some time to step back and process what the focus of your parenting is.