One of the toughest jobs that anyone I know ever chooses to have is to be a parent. From the moment your wife and you reveal that you are about to have a child, you seem to get constant advice from people about all sorts of things regarding good parenting. That information can be totally conflicting. And being a good parent can seem arbitrary in that life circumstances seems to make it easier for some than others.
I have subscribed for the last 10 years -- at least since I met him -- to the Greg Thompson theory of Good Parenting. Greg is a teaching and coaching friend of mine who was the first to tell me this theory on parenting. But as you will see below others follow it. That is broadly expose your children to a lot of different interests. Follow them when they seem to be particularly interested in one activity over another. Move on when they lose interest and let them tell you what their passion in life is. If you help them find a passion in life -- and that passion is a positive one -- then you have been a successful parent. Oh yeah, try to make sure they are polite and respectful too.
TED2016 is going on this week. TED and TEDX's around the world have produced some great material for those of us interested in being top performers. Here is Roz Eaton explaining exactly this method of parenting in how she raised an Olympian.
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