Teaching Your Children To Be The Leaders Of Your Family

Children are such a unique and special group of people

. They're bold characters, strong personalities, and bundles of joy. But what makes them so unique, is that people often see them as what they will achieve in the future, rather than what they're like now.

This is a very rare occurrence. When relatives see a crude yet promising painting by a 3 year old, they extrapolate this in their mind, and congratulate the child, in part, for what they will be able to paint in the future if their progress continues.

On this basis, I'd like you to try and congratulate the leadership skills that your child shows during their development. As leadership is such a crucial trait to a child eventual career and happiness, it's certainly worth thinking about as much as a child's generosity, kindness and politeness, which currently receive a lot of attention from parents.

In the way I described above, I won't then expect you to see extraordinary charisma bursting out of your child with every word. Nor should you expect to see them take an 'out of the box' approach to eating their cereal. It's all about understanding the leadership characteristics and behaviour of children, noticing them in your child, and then encouraging.

You won't have failed to notice the shocking disparity between the career success of those who go to private schools and those who attend state schools. One of the key differences is that private schools take it upon themselves to encourage leadership skills. They allow children to run societies in ways never allowed in state schools. They also teach the children from the perspective that they WILL be leaders eventually, not 'if'.

This conditioning gives children the confidence to lead in their teens and adulthood, and explains why the vast majority of senior politicians' went to private school.

I'm explaining this to show you that this form of parenting and coaching is already going on in classrooms around the country, and is giving a massive advantage to richer families. Help tip the balance by giving a good focus and raise your awareness of leadership skills in children today!

Examples of leadership behaviour in children are:

Your child negotiating a peaceful truce between two other children.

Your child directing play such that everyone gets involved rather than just to maximise their own enjoyment.

Being happy to volunteer for an unknown task.

There are clearly plenty more, so I advise you read up a little on leadership skills and learn to spot them in your own bundles of joy!

by: matthew Anderson

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