Tame Your Teenager

Awhile back I had the opportunity to take a couple of golf lessons.  Now understand, my abilities at golf are limited at best so I looked at this opportunity to raise my game to the next level.  Thinking I was going to show up to the first lesson and swing away while the instructor tweaked things here and there, I was a little surprised that we did just the opposite.  Instead of sending my little white spherical friends off into the wild blue yonder, we talked.  We talked about his philosophy and mine, about what kind of game I wanted to play, and about Mechanics of the swing.  What he was doing was setting me up to succeed and what I understand now is that the more time we spent on that set-up process the more likely the instruction would have a long term impact on my game.

Parenting has many different stages.  You don’t parent a kindergartener the same way you do a junior in high school.  But… (more…)