Friday, May 18, 2012

How Does Your Occupation Influences Your Parenting Style?

As many of you know, what you do outside of your home has a direct or indirect impact on what you do inside your home.

Take for example a family whose head of household (the father) was a graduate of West Point. If your father was trained to follow structure, order, and a code of conduct that has been existence for a few decades, one can expect that their children will follow in the same suit. In one of the families that I have worked with - I'm still thinking that the father (and mother) had invisible earpieces and night vision glasses that help keep track of their family of ten...

Another example that I have is of an entrepreneur. Many entrepreneurs are engaged in a multitude of tasks and can determine the value (or lack of value) of a particular project. If your mother is an entrepreneur and  has a predisposition to looking at the costs and benefits of a particular project or employee, do not be surprised if she takes away your allowance for a month because your report card was not where it should be. My mother - the entrepreneur that she is, would cut out programs and hobbies that she knew we had no "talent for". My oldest brother had electric guitar lessons canceled after a month when she realized that he was...tone deaf.

Lastly, if your parent(s) are constantly switching from plan A to plan D in the course of one hour - your life is destined for a whirlwind of change as well. When encountering a high performing physician in Atlanta, it was no surprise that this individual could out multi-task even the best of us. In reviewing the status and progress of her child's education, it was definitely a given that you had to make your point - in 15 minutes or less. Her children are soon to follow in those same footsteps as they begin and end tasks within 15 minutes.

The views of this blog post are strictly the opinion of the writer and are intended for comedic purposes/relief.

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