Being a Parent is the Best Off-The-Job Learning you can Get
A lot of parents are good at what they do with some of them being even unstoppable however many of them need all the help they can get to be a good parent.Some parents who are unstoppable are masters of their own world and they don’t compete with anyone but themselves. Being a parent is the best off the job learning for many reasons.
1. Perform and don’t show off: Being a parent means being always prepared so that acting on instinct becomes your primary nature. While everyone else is relaxing, a parent is always practicing and perfecting ways in which they can protect and care for their children. Being a parent gives a person enhanced consciousness where they know how something is going to pan out. Therefore, when these off-the-job parents go back to their working life, time slows downfor them and they see things in several more frames than others. While their other colleagues are trying to access how to react to a situation, these previously of the job parents can manipulate and tweak the situation to their liking.
2. Leadership and Responsibility: Being a parent is a great responsibility as the children often grow up to mimic the behavior as well as the beliefs and the attitudes of their parents. So, for instance, children whose parents smoke are more likely to follow their footsteps and start smoking at an early age themselves. We can look at leadership and responsibility in another way as well. For instance, in a household where the father who is the bread earner is the head of the family while the mother is the head of the house. The parents are polite with one another and show a united front and hence through parenting these parents learn responsibility and how to be leaders who are worshiped rather than frowned upon. (Krisberg, 2008)
3. Authenticity: Do not compete with others instead make them compete with you as normally when you are a parent, you are competing with only yourself and your children ever growing demands and needs. Being a parent makes one different from what they use to be while learning on thejob. For instance; before becoming a parent – you were continuously checking in to see what your competition was up to and would try to mimic or copy them. However, parenting makes one leave all this nonsense behind and who are you competing with as a parent – your kids? It makes absolutely no sense and hence pulls you out of your authentic zone. So being a parent teaches one to zone out all external noise and instead zone in your stronger points.
4. Resisting peer pressure: Being a parent teaches the parent mood and coping skills where while sharing and discussing issues and thoughts with one another, the parent, as well as the child,learn to reframe and discourage unhelpful thoughts, stress as well as learns tension management. This helps an off-the-job parent employee who is actively involved in parenting learn to develop personal coping mechanisms and plan for high-risks situations while learning positive involvement, support and strength oriented collaborative activities for enhancing their interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships and goals.
5. Stakeholder Relations: Parenting teaches one all about stakeholding and what the stakeholders are after in life. For instance, parents are considered major stakeholders in a school where their child studies. Just as it takes a community to raise a child, parent as off-the-job learning teaches an employee that it takes everyone in the organization to play their part and work as part of a family to achieve the goals put forward by the company’s stakeholders. Parenting teaches strong leadership skills and patience and these two things are very important when it comes to stakeholder relations as being slow and steady makes one win the race.
