Side Character Energy: Parenting Edition

Our culture says “be the main character of your own story” which I can understand and get the idea…
But, I am the main character in only one movie - my own - and I’m a side character in everyone else’s.

How can I make the most in my supporting role in other people’s lives? 

Where I would see this most frequently is in my relationship to my kids - as their parents, we have to see them as the main characters and not just an extension of OUR story. Our lives. Our wishes for them. Etc. 

I bring in a mom I’ve looked up to from afar whose 11 year old prospected me in the neighborhood with her babysitting resume. On the intro call she asked if my kids “had any allergies she needed to know about” and I was sold. I thought “who is this young female entrepreneur and also how did her mom do it?”

So I took Lara Richardson to lunch. She is a badass professionally as the CMO of Hallmark Media (helloooo Hallmark Christmas movies have already started, yay!) but she took her role as a mother with just as much focus, intention, and leadership as she does her career. 

We talk all things toddlerhood to pre-teen together!

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