Performance Focused Parenting | Part 3

Parenting On Purpose

The Parenting Curriculum

How ridiculous would it sound if we went to our child’s open house at school and their teacher had no lesson plans for the year? Even if the teacher explained the plan for the year being to watch what the other teachers do, then sit over coffee and discuss what worked and what didn’t. We as parents would be incensed that there was no plan for our child’s education. But how many of us do this with parenting our children?

We fly through life dropping our kids off at school and activities and our parenting style appears to be trial and error. When we are so busy life seems to fly by even faster. It would be such a tragedy to drop our child off on a college campus or watch them go out the door as adults and have regrets about our parenting. One way to make sure we are able to do our best to train our children is to have goals or a parenting curriculum. Take the time to process through the areas your child needs to be trained in before adulthood. There are several places to start. You can start with thinking through the areas that you wished you had more training. Another great place to start is the book of Proverbs. This is a book written from father to son and has some wonderful insight. Make sure that you sit down during one of you parenting staff meeting with you spouse and think through your goals for parenting. This way you can help to make family and parenting a priority and not just get caught up in the busyness of life.