It's a funny thing having kids. As Charles Handy said, "It's a social experiment".
Despite the number of books, videos, or people you can talk to, you still have to get on with it, do your best, and try your best.
At the moment, I'm about 58 years into combined parenting, and I am still rubbish at it. I Still generally have no idea what I'm doing with it, but one of the privileges I get for deciding to become a parent is I get to choose how I do it.
If other people complain about that, it's okay, but they don't get to change my view.
I get to parent the way I think is right, and I do that and face the consequences of what happens if I get it wrong.
It's like when your Children's grandparents tell you that you have to do something in a particular way for your kids, and then they realise that you don't because they're your kids, not anyone else's kids.
Well, it's kind of the same, isn't it, if you run your own business?
You get to run your own business, and you get the privilege of that, but you get everything that comes with it: all the pain and the distress and the exhaustion and the tiredness and the worry and the anxiety, all of the uncertainty of the decisions that you make and wondering whether you will be able to carry on or you can still pay people's wages.
What comes with that, though, is the privilege of calling the shots, and you get to call the shots.
If you find yourself in a position in your business where you have to call the shots, then you have to do it.
If you find that there is a person or people within your business who object to that, it's totally fine for them to start their own business and to call their own shots.
That's why it's like parenting, isn't it?
If you don't like the way I'm parenting my kids, have some kids of your own and parent in your way, and in the end, we'll see what happens.
Blog Post Number - 3986