This is for the parents as you send your children off to start this school year. You hope that your children will have a great school year, getting good grades and meeting new friends as well as looking forward to their new ones. People may get mad at me right now but the truth hurts so let’s go there. If you are a bully in relationships your child may be a bully. If you are a push over then you child may get bullied. If you have a bunch of men or women in and out of your life, do not try to beat your child down when they do the same thing. “I’m grown” or “I pay the bills here” is not the going to cut it. In either case you have not shown your child what a healthy respectful relationship looks like. Children model what you do!!! You can have all the conversation that you want with them but in the end, how you treat others and how you allow others to treat you will be reflected through your kids.

You are your child’s role model. Not the people they see on t.v., in movies, athletes or any entertainer. Every relationship you have not only affects you but affects your children. The relationships you have with your spouse, partner, mother, father, cousins, aunts, uncles and friends, the children see them. You role model how they view the world and their relationships, it is based on everything that you do.

It’s evident even on Facebook, kids cursing, twerking and a a lot of other mess. It is not all learned from their peers, television and other outside sources. You cannot shield them from the outside world. Regardless of what they see you are the foundation. If you are doing the same thing that they see from the outside world then you just confirmed it, put a stamp on it and engraved it in their head.

Once you get an understanding of what it means to be the conductor in your life you’ll get a better handle on all your relationships and hold yourself to a higher standard. Your kids will learn how to conduct themselves even when you are not around. They will learn that it is better to be alone rather than to accept less than above standards. They will learn how to stand up for themselves.

If you do not know better and you are the adult, how do you expect a young growing mind to know better? Empower your children by Empowering U.