We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are certain things we cannot change. We need to adapt ourselves to manage them. The future is bright, but the going will be tough. The opportunity that we are going to have will come with its own challenges. We need to become fit to exploit all the opportunities that the future is going to offer.
We need to keep this in mind as our children grow. The skills and abilities that are required to manage the future will be completely different from the skills that are required today or even in the past. That is why in organizations, employees are taken through what is called executive and management training.
Our life is also an organization in which we expect our children to produce certain results and outcome. Just like an executive is prepared and trained to meet the business challenges, our children should also be trained and developed to manage the problems they are going to face in their life.
Just like the human resources manager in an organisation takes care of the development of the executives, the parents should take the responsibility to develop the soft skills in their children. I repeat: The parents should take up this responsibility, and not the school. The schools can concentrate on the syllabus and maybe to some extent on the soft skill development.
Basic survival skills like communication, assertiveness, time management, leadership, motivation, empowerment, lateral thinking, creativity, interpersonal skills, etc. are very important to succeed in life.
Over this weekend, can you ponder over this idea and eke out a plan of action to meet this requirement in your child?
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