Parenting Tip?

I should be asleep right now, but I was just finishing up some last minute reading for a work "lunch and learn" I'm in. High = amazing book. Low = this meeting happens at 7:30am instead of over lunch. This early hour doesn't suit well seeing as I have an abnormal relationship with my snooze button. But that's another story. Or maybe a quirk. I'll leave it up to you. Dang, can you tell I had an energy drink tonight? Log that as my new low. Fingers crossed I'll get to sleep some (sleeping's my favorite).

Anyway, I picked this group because the book seemed the least boring of all the options. Little did I know just how fascinating and challenging it would be. Have you read Integrity by Henry Cloud? If not, please order it off of Amazon (or any other fine retailer) today. It has a lot of focus on business but all of this content relates to real life too. Real life...ha....like business is fake. You know what I mean. It plays out in marriage and friendships as much as it does business/professional relationships.

I know it seems strange that I would post anything on parenting, but since most of you are knee deep in that phase of life, I couldn't help thinking of you when I read this paragraph. It made me think back on my own upbringing and gave great perspective if I do have a family of my own one day. To give some background, he is talking about the importance of grace in a relationship and what it really looks like. Here is the parenting part:

"To achieve is the child's responsibility, but to empower the child is the parent's responsibility. So, instead of just setting a standard, the parent of grace gives support, coaching, teaching, structure, modeling, help, and consequences to empower the child to get there. Those are things that the child cannot provide and so are "unmerited". They are given without their being earned, and that is grace. But, grace is not removing the standard. The requirement stays, and the person of grace does what is possible to be "for" the other person's meeting it."

Holy Cow!! That is such a beautiful picture to think about. The paragraph before is just as inspiring as it relates to being in a leadership role. I'll post it if you're interested....just don't want to be that girl with never ending posts. (This was supposed to be a short one!)