![]() We grouped family and friends into one, which I fully admit is a cheat move. My family landed on the following values: The bottom line? S topping to identify your family’s guiding principles forces you to take a long-term view at the legacy you hope to leave through your kids. Kristie and her husband set values years ago, and my family created ours this week based on the how-to exercise. ( Check out her post to learn more about what this looks like, or grab our freebie Family Values Worksheet that will walk you through how to identify your family’s values!) I dentify values and then use them to make decisions easier and ensure you keep your main things in sight. Kristie argues that families should do the same thing. Begin with the End in MindĬompanies strategically consider who they are and where they want to go when they establish their guiding values. See more on Covey’s habit: Be Proactive 2. We talk more about breaking unhealthy cycles before they perpetuate through future generations in our blog on family dysfunction. You believe you can overcome parenting challenges as they come up. You try to accept that you can be a great parent even if the parenting modeled to you growing up only showed you what NOT to do. It throws out excuses and adopts an “I can” spirit. Be ProactiveĬovey’s first habit deals with attitude. And now I present to you: The 7 Habits of Incredibly Impactful Parents. Then we layered on wisdom from people we know and trust as well as experts in parenting, psychology and teaching. Kristie says she started saving money for their therapy when they were born.Īs Type A moms, we fangirled over the ideas of using the tested framework of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People as a step-by-step guide to raising kids with character. Kristie and I talk about wanting to raise kids with character more than we want to raise happy kids (she put this concept into words and I just agreed.) I had some great models in my life and I think I’ve done some things right so far, but I’ve also screwed up plenty. So couldn’t I apply these principles at home and begin developing my kids in a better way now? Couldn’t I use this framework as a guide to raising teenagers? I would like to RAISE highly effective people – assuming I can stretch the business-y word “effective” to mean productive and impactful. Here are Covey’s seven habits.Īnd then I had a parenting epiphany. It’s been years since I read that book, so I went back to take a look at what made this so relevant to my college student 30 years after publication. The kid in my class was born in the late ‘90s. But Covey published the 25th anniversary edition of this book in 2013, so it’s 30 years old. ![]() One student introduced himself and said he was reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. This was a writing class, and I was leading up to a point about the importance of reading in being a good writer. In one class this semester I asked each student to share his or her name and a book they’d recently read or a book they just really liked. ![]() I’ve had a few classes that actually didn’t have a pulse – those were rough semesters. I headed back to school last week (I teach college) and I always kick off the first day of class with some introductions because I want to learn names and take the pulse on each class. Stephen Covey’s award-winning 7 Habits of Highly Effective People provides a framework we can use as parents to raise more responsible teens. Raising teenagers often forces us to shift our parenting strategies. This means that, at zero cost to you, we will earn an affiliate commission if you click the link and make a purchase. Some of the links below are affiliate links.
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