5 Keys to Superior Parental Leadership and Success

By G N. Davis

5 Keys To Superior Parental Leadership And Success, offer parents and aspiring parents the superior tools to raise great children. In it parents will know how:

to help their children to discover their life purpose

to guide their children to know what they are passionate about, and how the appropriate career path to take.

to assist their children to work on the weaknesses

and lastly to aspire for greatness. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: G N. Davis
• Release date: Nov 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215294376

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5 Keys to Superior Parental Leadership And success

New spiritual discoveries on how to raise great children in this ever challenging world

Beloved, I congratulate you for making this wise decision today. Let me tell you that you didn’t buy this book by accident. It was the Holy Spirit that directed your path because He is going to re-empower and inspire you to raise great children. And the success stories of your children will cause great and noble personalities to come and seek your counsel and wisdom! Say a big Amen!

Preface 

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Recently, I attended a funeral in a very remote village in Ghana. As we were going around the casket, viewing the dead body, a lady in front of me made a very funny, but exciting comment, she said this woman is always full of joy; even her dead body is smiling. This comment caught my attention, and as I watch this dead woman of 94 years, I also notice a smile on her face. This made me realize that, when our hearts are full of joy, till death, our dead bodies even express how joyful we were. Now, the most significant thing that makes our hearts constantly full and flows with great joy is when we raise great children. This woman, whose dead body was smiling, had raised four great children, a very senior army officer, a professor, a medical doctor, and an engineer.

As the biography of this noblewoman was being read, another woman sitting close to me made a statement, I wish my kids will also become great as this woman's children then just as she made this statement, another woman sitting close to her, exclaimed "In this world of increasing LGBTQ,, corruption, terrorism, social media bullying, substance abuse, selfishness, etc., then you need serious prayers.

The wish and the exclamation gave birth to the sub-title of this book- Raising great Children In This Ever Challenging World

I have been in the education system for a long, and on daily basis, I experience the challenge that parents face and go through in their quest for parenting their kids. I have categorized these challenges that most parents face in raising their children into five headings. They are:

1.  Fear

A woman visited my office crying- why are you crying I asked. "My daughter is only 10 years old and she has started menstruating. I’m so afraid she will get pregnant just like my next-door neighbor’s daughter who is only 12 years old.

For others, they have warned their kids not to even taste the birthday cake of their friends for the fear of the transfer of evil spirits to them.

For others, their fear has to do with converting their kids to a different faith.

For others, the fear of introducing their kids to homosexualism, and for others, the fear of introducing their kids into hard drugs, prostitution, etc.

2. Disappointment

The second challenge that most parents face is disappointment in terms of the academic performance of their children. Most of these parents wish something drastically can be done to change the academic fortunes of their wards. Most of the students are very brilliant and smart but do not have the discipline to learn.

3. Stubbornness and Rebelliousness

The third challenge that most parents face is the issue of stubbornness and rebelliousness of their children.

4. Single Parenting and Cost of Education

The fourth challenge that most parents face is the issue of single parenting and the rising cost of education.

5. Creating time for the Kids

The last major challenge that most parents face has to do with creating enough time for their children. The economic situations in most nations now demand both the wife and husband to work. The balancing of time for their kids and their work has been a major problem. Etc. Etc.

Peter Druker said, The most important thing about communication is to hear what isn’t said. When parents on daily basis express anger, sadness, worry, despair, fear, disappointment, etc. about these challenges we’ve just listed, what he/she is actually asking is, with all my fears, the disappointments, the stubbornness, the rebelliousness, the rising cost of education, inability to create time for my kids, etc., is it possible to raise great children? The answer is a big YES. And that’s what this book stands for.

Yes, it is true that there is a massive increase in LGBTQ activities, a monumental rise in crime and corruption, escalating rate of terrorism, social media bullying and its negative influence, the overwhelming impact of hard drugs, prostitution, and so on, that make the raising of great children very, very difficult. But irrespective of all these negative increases, there is a formula to raise great and highly successful children. This book offers that formula.

As you read, know that this book is first a spiritual book. Most of the concepts you are going to learn in this book are spiritual concepts/discoveries that will really help you to achieve your goal of raising great children. And because is a spiritual book, it will prophesy a lot about the future of your kids.

Secondly, is intellectual work. This book is also an intellectual work that will offer powerful intellectual antidotes to sharpen your parenting skills in activating the greatness of your children that will propel them to achieve worthwhile goals, and become a blessing to their generation.

Third, this book is an advocacy book. There are a lot of things that darken the hearts of our children, and slim their chances to manifest their greatness. This book will raise some of these negative things, and it is my hope that you will join to do the advocacy.

Lastly, this book is an inspirational book. It is written with the vision, not only to provide the formula for raising great children but also to offer hope, that no matter the state of your children, all is not lost, there is hope for the future.

This book is not only meant for parents who want to sharpen their parental leadership skills but is also very beneficial to pastors, marriage counselors, relationship experts, and mature singles in search of Mr. /Mrs. Right, and so on.

To get the most out of this book, you have to make it your companion, and read it over, and over again. The more you read it, the more you will internalize the concepts and be able to teach and counsel others. Because most of the concepts are spiritual, it is important to always say a simple prayer anytime you want to read this book, for the Holy Spirit to help you comprehend.

At this point, let me congratulate you again for buying this life-transforming book, and it is my greatest pleasure to share with you 5 Keys To Parental Leadership And Success!

gabriel nai. davis

The Institute Of Sustainability Leadership

Accra-Ghana

(March, 2023)

Introduction

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Understanding Parenting

Parenting is a great task to perform. Most of us have not done well, because of the way we look at the word parenting and the way it has been defined for us. Consider the following:

Parenting or child rearing promotes and supports the physical, emotional, social and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood Wikipedia

Parenting: the process of raising children and providing them with protection and care in order to ensure their healthy development into adulthood. Encyclopedia Brita mica

Parenting practices around the world share three major goals; ensuring children’s health and safety, preparing children for life as productive adults, and transmitting cultural values. Encyclopedia of Psychology

Really wonderful definitions, but they limit our understanding of the word parenting. For us to really understand the term parenting, and appreciate the task we are to perform, there are three ‘Why’s we have to deal with- Why parenting? Why do kids come as infants but not an adult? Why does God make them pass through us? Let’s now take them one after the order and address them?

Why Parenting?

One undeniable truth about children is that each come to this world with a God-given assignment or purpose. The main objective or vision or purpose of parenting is to guide and motivate a child to pursue his/her God-given assignment. So parenting is not just rearing kids into adulthood, but guiding and motivating them to pursue their God-given assignment.

Why Do Kids Come as Infants?

Kids come to this world as infants because parenting is a leadership role or task. Leadership is all about influence. That’s we are to influence their behavior and worldview. Most parents never thought that parenting is all about leadership, so they have never read a leadership book before, but funny enough, when they get a big leadership position in their offices, churches, clubs, societies, etc. they try to get leadership books to read, but not when they decided to become fathers/mothers. The biggest and the most important leadership position you can ever get is being a father or a mother.

Why were we given the opportunity to Parenting?

God gave us this beautiful opportunity to parent our kids, become He will ask us for accountability. Yes, for each of our children, God will ask us to account for how we raise them. And that is why we have to raise them to pursue their God-given purpose, and in the fear of God. Most fathers in particular do not know this, so they left the parenting to the mothers, the schools, the churches, etc.

If we understand parenting from these 3 why’s a perspective, it deepens our understanding of the concept and helps us to really appreciate the bigger picture and the task ahead. And this makes it easier for us to be successful in our parenting endeavors.

Parenting Defined

From the above understanding, I define parenting as the process and the capacity to influence the behavior and the worldview of a child, inspire the ingenuity and