Parenting Challenges

From encouraging schoolwork and sports to modeling values as a child grows remember, they do as you do, not as you say! Parents exert enormous influence over their children's lives. They are, however, not the only on-the-ground influences—especially after children enter school and begin interacting with the world at large.

Most parents work to give children the best start possible, but it's also important for parents to recognize that kids come into the world with their own temperaments, personalities, and goals. While parents may want to push their child down a certain path, a parents' job is to provide an interface with the world that ultimately prepares a child for complete independence and the ability to pursue whatever path they choose.

-R Sanders