The power of Parent Mentoring : Leading Your Children to Realize Their Potential The power of Parent Mentoring Copyright © LEMI-Leadership Education Mentoring Institute 2009
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HOW TO KNOW WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE READY FOR PARENTHOOD Geocities.com : HOW TO KNOW WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE READY FOR PARENTHOOD Geocities.com The Mess Test Smear peanut butter on the sofa and curtains. Now rub your hands in the wet flower bed and rub on the walls. Cover the stains with crayons. Place a fish stick behind the couch and leave it there all summer.
Ready for Parenthood?Geocities.com : Ready for Parenthood?Geocities.com The Grocery Store Test Borrow one or two small animals (goats are best) and take them with you as you shop at the grocery store. Always keep them in sight and pay for anything they eat or damage.
Final Assignment : Final Assignment Find a couple who already have a small child. Lecture them on how they can improve their discipline, patience, tolerance, toilet training, and child's table manners. Suggest many ways they can improve. Emphasize to them that they should never allow their children to run riot. Enjoy this experience. It will be the last time you will have all the answers.
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The Goal: Realize their Potential : The Goal: Realize their Potential 1. Wisdom - Knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it.
2. Justice - Conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things.
3. Judgment - the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.
4. Equity - Equality of rights, the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in determination of conflicting claims; impartiality.
4 Reasons Why Parents Don’t Mentor : 4 Reasons Why Parents Don’t Mentor They don’t know that they can.
Lack of vision.
They don’t manage their time.
Lack of mission.
Personality conflicts.
Lack of ability.
Communications break down.
Lack of skills.
7 Types of Mentors : 7 Types of Mentors
The Power of Parent Mentoring : The Power of Parent Mentoring 7 Vital Actions Build Relationships Session One Session Two
Checks: 7 Vital Actions : Checks: 7 Vital Actions 1. Personal Planning and council: Self Knowing
2. Executive Family Council: Husband and Wife Council
3. Family Planning meetings
4. Family Council
5. Parent-Mentor Meetings--formal
6. Debrief meetings as needed--informal
7. Behavior simulations/ practice
1. Self-Desire—Ignition
2. Deep Practice—Deliberate Practice:
a. Specific time
b. Use Chunky and Daily task power
c. Acknowledge feeling and move through it, applying new feelings
3. Master Coaching—Love, understanding of where they are, where they’ve been, and where they need to go, perceptive, fast reflexes, honesty, spiritual eyes.
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