Leadership in the Home

I had an ironic parenting fail during a recent Christmas. As my kids were putting ornaments on the Christmas tree, I started noticing that they were blatantly violating ornament-hanging etiquette by putting ornaments right next to one another in groups rather than evenly distributing the ornaments around the tree. 😱

Without realizing it, I started barking orders and interfering when they would reach out to put a new ornament right next to another. My son even looked at me and nodded like he understood what I was saying and agreed with me...and then proceeded to do it again.

Then, a little annoyed, my oldest daughter said, "Does it really matter where we put the ornaments? Can we just do it our way?"

This comment hit me like a ton of bricks. I coach and train leaders every week to pick their battles and be deliberate about letting their employees find their own way of accomplishing their work, even to let them fail as long as the stakes aren't high.

You'd think this would be ingrained in me as often as I talk about it, but this time I needed a humbling reminder from a teenager that I still have room to improve as a leader in my own home.

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