How to Raise Humans, Not Just Parent Children

We're looking back at the Zimmerman Podcast episode all about... PARENTING! I'm sharing my 10 best tips for how to parent children like the complex human beings they are, not just like tiny children! Yupp. Now, it's always been my education philosophy that I'm not going to tell you WHAT TO DO, I'm just going to tell you what's worked for me. That's what I do for business and marketing, and that's what I do when it comes to parenting. This is NOT a how-to guide, it's a 'this is what I do' story!

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How to Raise Humans, Not Just Parent Children

On today's podcast, we're officially going there...

PARENTING! I'm sharing my 10 best tips for how to parent children like the complex human beings they are, not just like tiny children!

Yupp. Now, it's always been my education philosophy that I'm not going to tell you WHAT TO DO, I'm just going to tell you what's worked for me. That's what I do for business and marketing, and that's what I do when it comes to parenting. This is NOT a how-to guide, it's a 'this is what I do' story!

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My People

Today was one of those weird days where everything that I thought would take me an hour to do ended up taking twice as long. I pride myself on being efficient so when I'm not, I get frustrated. I had a few deadlines to meet and I missed the boys' swim lesson to get my work done. Anytime I have to miss one of their activities I feel a like I've failed. Not that I've failed them, they are great. They don't care if I miss one practice here and there. I feel like I've failed because the whole reason I started down the path of business ownership was so I wouldn't miss any of those moments. But then two things happened:

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