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Teaching Your Child Leadership

Teaching Your Child Leadership

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 Hello Everyone! Master Mom Amanda Olson here. https://www.amazon.com/Amanda-Olson/e/B07TLG3G4F It's a beautiful Sunday here in Johnson, city, Tennessee, and I'm looking forward to getting out and playing in my garden and working in the yard. I've got some the plants that I picked up yesterday to plant. Not that I need any more plants, but it's fun. It's a hobby for me and especially on a beautiful day like today. So, I was going to talk today about a kind of interesting subject to me. And that is that of leadership. Especially teaching leadership to children, teaching leadership to teens. I have been teaching leadership for as long as I can remember, you know, back when I was teaching my martial arts classes more robustly than I do now. One of the things that I realized was especially important was to have the children, whatever lessons they learned, whether it's courtesy, respect, integrity, all the things that we teach, is that they not just know what they mean, but they also are able to show that out in the real world, outside of the, my real martial arts world. That takes confidence and that takes leadership skills. You know, some people are just kind of naturally charismatic and people follow them. They're either funny or they're confident or, you know, they're not intimidated and they just, do their thing. And people follow that energy. They're like, oh, okay, well that's kind of fun. Every time you talk, you make me laugh. Or, when we go hang out or something, you're pretty bold. And so, we get to do extra things that I wouldn't do on my own. That type of leadership happens kind of naturally in some people, but leadership can also be taught. And I know there's some different rules of thought on that, but I believe that you can become a better leader. You can teach people how to become a better leader. And in my reference of leadership, that means that you have confidence to do the things you want to do. You have confidence to choose the right things. Sometimes, there's pressure to do the wrong thing and leadership can be confidence to choose to do the right thing. Also, good leadership skills help you have more opportunity to have control over your life. So, if you have leadership skills and you are joining a club and you want to see this club go in a certain direction, whether it's raising funds for this group, or do more work outside the group, volunteer work to help the community, or whatever you want to do. If you have the leadership skills to lead your group or speak up and lead a section of your group, and you can accomplish the things in your life that you want to accomplish, Whether you're eight years old or 28 or 48, 68, or 108, it's the same skillset. And it really provides you an outlet to do the things you want to do, make the differences in the world that you want to make and enjoy life a little bit more. If you have confidence to speak up and speak your mind, not in a negative way, not bossy or mean way. Just in kind of confident way to live your life in the way that you feel is appropriate for you and being able to step in and help others. Help others using your confidence for people who aren't quite there yet. It's a good way to live. It's a happy way to live. So, teaching leadership is something that I found was very empowering for little kids. They can learn to say, no. They can learn to say, no, I'm not going to join in on picking on this kid. Or I'm not going to try this substance that is bad for my body. Or I'm not going to misbehave. You know they have that confidence because they can say, I'm a leader. I can choose to do the wrong thing, or I can choose to do the right thing. And, I have that power because I am a leader. Of course, my thing is to teach the kids, to use their leadership powers for good. But more importantly, I want to teach people, teach children, teach teens that skill. So, when they are living their lives and growing up into adulthood, they can make decisions that they feel confident with. Things that they want to do, not follow the crowd. Confidence gives them that moment to say, “Hmm, you know, I see this in the world, and I'd like to do that about it. I might need to take a different direction than what the rest of the world is doing.” Interestingly, I was talking about this with a group of folks and one of the people in there said something that just shocked me, just blew me away. They said, “I don't want my child to learn leadership because they'll use it against me. And they won't do what I say.” And I was like, wow, I have never thought of it that way before. So, I had to stop and take a step back. And I started doing a little research on that. And just kind of looking into, you know, is that just that one person's opinion or do other people have this opinion? And I found that teaching your kid to be a leader does not have the same positive connotation to every person in the world. There were many other parents that they've already got a ...
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