Leadership
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| Tue, 11-07-2006 - 8:13pm |
Hi everyone. I am just wondering how you instill good values, and specifically leadership values in your 10-14 yo's? I just got home from a 3-day leadership conference ( http://www.ylcc.com/p_pages.asp?pid=4 ) with my school with teenagers from all over Ontario and it was SO AMAZING and inspiring and I really want to make sure that Caitie can have those qualities to be able to feel the way I did and do the things that leaders can do. I just want her to be able to stand up for herself and for other people, but I know that she doesn't, and although I think a lot of it has to do with her age, some is just her personality.
So what do you do to make your children leaders? What do you do to make sure they consider other people less fortunate?
THANKS!
Oh, and BTW, thought this was really interesting and wanted to share (maybe for you or for your tween?)
While I was at the conference, one of our speakers was Ward Bingham, who runs Mondonation, and he talked about his "I believe" campaign. I LOVE the idea and just bought one of his t-shirts for myself. This is the website,
and a promotional video about it:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kUIai9aQehc
But pretty much the idea is that you buy a shirt that says Belive on the front, then on the back you write what you believe in. You type it on his website, he gets it printed on the shirt and sends it out to you. A dollar goes to a charity of your choice. I think the idea is amazing and he was such a great guy. His goal of the campaign is to bring people together by sharing their beliefs, getting them to stand up for what they believe in, and, obviously, raising money for charities. This guy sold EVERYTHING he owned in order to start this business and is the most caring person I have ever met. I am going to tell everyone about it and it makes such a nice gift, so I thought these boards would be a good place to share it.
But anyways, back to the real question of this... I need some ideas on instilling leadership in Caitie.
-Nikki

You know I have been debating about posting in this thread a lot since you originally posted it because I have pretty harsh views about leadership.
I tend to agree with Lolly!
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I'm kind of agreeing with the other posters too.
However, I have noticed my daughter leading in an area that suprised me! Basketball! She is not a star player by any means, but she knows what is going on and you can tell the others look to her for leadership.
I think that depending on the situation even the "followers" can be leaders. For example if it is something they are good at or know a lot about. I think a lot has to do with confidence. So I guess if you can build up a child's confidence you are helping.
Karin