Trust You? Are we allowed?

Posted on | June 3, 2010 | No Comments

Trust.

Trust in ourselves is as far as I’m concerned one of the greatest lost commodities today.

We spend way too much time wanting people to tell us what we are doing is OK.

Are you telling me you do not know when your work is sub standard?

Are you telling me you can not read instructions, look at a situation and craft what is necessary and maybe even beyond expectation?

Exactly! Somewhere along the line of growing up, and I put the blame squarely on the social education process, we have been duped into thinking that we just don’t have the ability to trust our own instincts.

Well this lack of self trust doesn’t just come to fruition in the classroom but throughout society and this is a frightening thought.

But what is causing some people to stop and think today is the simple fact that we are giving up our role as parents to books, the net and other sources that suggest to have the answers to how to bring up our children!

Well, Lenore Skenazy has a few ideas about parenting and the general need to trust ourselves!

I spoke to Lenore on Nightline and the leadership lessons are brimming from our conversation.

Lenore Skenazy on Free Range Kids

Nightline a Conversation