If You Wanted to Be Respected, Then You Shouldn’t Have Become A Parent

Command & Control Leadership is Bad Parenting, Most of the Time

Source: Child and Family Blog. Description: a blonde girl with pale skin and a blue-green shirt puts lipstick onto her father’s face. Her father is white, with graying hair, and has a stubble beard. He also wears a tiara and has a makeup smudge on his cheek.

A little over a year ago I appeared on the Failing Motherhood podcast, which is hosted by my friend, Danielle Bettmann. During our talk she mentioned a lot of the fathers she works with in her parenting coach business say they want respect from their kids. They define respect as…