“When you are so confident that you are loved and liked by your parents, you can pour into other people.”

Parenting is the highest form of leadership. This year, while children are at home for school, parents have an unprecedented opportunity. In this podcast, Tricia Halsey interviews Christian Dykson, a 19 year-old Ashoka Young Changemaker who is wise beyond his years. And then, Christian joins his parents Dirk and Lindie for a conversation about parenting and raising leaders. Learning and working from home comes with tremendous challenges, but we can choose to see this season as a gift that will forever change the lives of our kids and every life they touch. Listen in to this powerful conversation.

Shownotes

• Hearing from the perspective of a dynamic 19 year-old Generation Z leader who is well beyond his years in wisdom.
• Unleashing the power of others begins with knowing their name, then challenging them to dream.
• Christian’s worldview shift when he began to notice the vital role of custodians and building a program to elevate the custodial staff to match their true value as “heroes of the hallways.” How this project led to Ashoka selecting Christian as a Young Changemaker.
• Christian’s goal is to “serve” as the U.S. President someday. He speaks about why and shares his vision for the future.
• The reason why empathy should be a focus of parents when they are developing their children.
• The difference between loving and liking your child, and what time has to do with it.
• Assessing and judging children actually steals power from them. What we should do instead.
• What are the distractions that take the attention of children away from meaningful interactions with parents that would help them feel more known and liked?
• Ask the question: “What is the culture we want as a family?”