Learn how the Working Genius model applies to parenting. Embrace and leverage your strengths as a parent. Find creative solutions to balance work and family dynamics. Appreciate the sense of wonder in parenting. Apply the working genius model to understand and support children's strengths.
Parenting requires recognizing and utilizing different working geniuses to create a balanced and supportive family dynamic.
Understanding and acknowledging your own and your child's working geniuses can shape your parenting approach and foster their individuality.
Deep dives
Parenting and Working Genius
Parenting requires utilizing different working geniuses and recognizing that no one person has all the necessary strengths. Each family will have gaps that are important to navigate. Understanding your own and your spouse's working geniuses can help avoid guilt and shame. Discovering your children's geniuses and acknowledging their frustrations can shape the way you parent and nurture their gifts. Creating an environment that values and utilizes each family member's strengths can lead to better family dynamics and growth.
Outsourcing and Seeking Help
Recognizing your working frustrations and gaps in parenting can be addressed by seeking external help, such as relying on friends, family, or professionals who possess the missing geniuses. Outsourcing tasks that don't align with your strengths can help alleviate guilt and maximize family productivity. Understanding that parenting and family dynamics require a variety of geniuses allows for more effective collaboration, support, and shared responsibilities.
Discovering Your Kids' Geniuses
While children may not be eligible to take the working genius assessment, parents can observe and identify their children's natural strengths and frustrations. Having conversations about each child's unique genius helps create an environment that values and celebrates their gifts. Recognizing their frustrations can guide parents in providing support, shaping expectations, and creating opportunities for growth. Understanding your child's genius can impact how you approach homework, school, career advice, and validate their individuality.
Regulating Geniuses and Self-Awareness
Understanding your own working geniuses and how they interact with your children helps regulate your approach to parenting. Being self-aware and recognizing your tendencies and inclinations in conversations with your kids can help align your responses to their needs. By acknowledging your own strengths and limitations, and finding a balance between pushing your children and respecting their individual geniuses, you can build a healthier and more supportive parent-child relationship.
We use the Working Genius model as a guide for how we show up to work. This week, Pat, Cody and Beau discuss how you can apply it to your job as a parent.
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