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Parents Who Lead
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Parents Who Lead

by Stewart D. Friedman, Alyssa F. Westring
March 2020
Beginner
272 pages
6h 5m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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Chapter 4

ENGAGE YOUR CHILDREN

The novelist and essayist Ayelet Waldman has said that “there are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you’d be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of their own life and nature.”1 As we guide our children toward compassionate, contented, and confident lives, we face a leadership challenge: how to do so while at the same time investing in what matters most to us in other areas of our lives. Essential to this process is finding out what they need. If it’s possible, asking them is the best way to find out.2

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ISBN: 9781633696518