Over the next few weeks leading up to the release of Lead Your Family Like Jesus, Phil Hodges, one of my co-authors, and I are going to be answering questions that my amazing launch team queried us with. I hope you can learn from some of our answers. Parenting is a constant learning process, and I hope you’ll be encouraged in what you read.
Tricia: When we compare our weaknesses to others’ strengths, we feel defeated and worthless. Yet when we compare our strengths to others’ weaknesses, then pride slips in. The best thing is don’t compare! I’ve come to a place where I’m able to appreciate the ways other families excel without having to feel bad about myself or my family.
As I talk about in Lead Your Family Like Jesus, when our family discovered what we were “about”—what our label was—then we focused on excelling in those things, and not trying to keep up with those around us. For example, one of the things we’re about is family meals. I might serve canned vegetables and grilled cheese one night, but it’s the experience. No one’s life is like a Pinterest board. We all have “sharable” moments, but we’re all a work in progress.
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