The world needs more originals. So why as parents are we always trying to push our children into off the shelf boxes? Doctor. Lawyer. Engineer, executive. When we push all of our expectations into our children we rob them of one thing that we should all experience as human beings. The right to be whoever we want to be. The right to give the world the gift that we are the only ones that have. The power to serve our fellow citizens of this great world with our personal excellence and talent that only we posses. When you were a child did you parents allow you to be whoever you wanted to be? Or were you expected to follow in their footsteps or take the reigns of the family business? What did you miss out on? What did you really want to do? Artists, sculpture. Dancer, musician, actor, actress football player, beauty queen, hairdresser.. Do you lay awake in bed at night wondering what if? Who would I be now? How happy would I be? Because your parents pressured you to get a job that you could support a family With. . Are you the parent that said “you want to be a painter?” Great so what are you going to do to make money? What you are doing is robbing them of an opportunity of a lifetime to explore themselves and find out why they are here to do and who they are supposed to become. Don’t try to push them into the same corner you were pushed into. Let them be originals. Let them find their talent. Their superhero. While they are doing that you can rethink your life and maybe do something that you should have done years ago. Do something that you regret not doing. Do something that will give you fulfillment and serve the world. Do something that makes you original. Because wouldn’t life be so much nicer if we all were originals. So give your children this gift and give it to yourself. Go blow up your life make some mistakes because being original is a lot of freakin fun. All the imitators out there are bores and who wants to hang out with a bore. Carpe the day and be OG. You can love them or control them but you can’t do both. 🤘#parentinghacks #parentingteenagers #divorcedmoms #divorceddads #divorcedmom #divorcedparentsproblems #divorcedparent #coachrichiepryor #hope (at Starbucks) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Z6v7bF2br/?igshid=1o50sho4pyb6t
