Family Friday Newsletter - 2.5 min read by: Finley Robinson A Single Sentence from a Season Ahead Relax a bit ... There is a w i d e range of normal for your kids. Win-Coach-RELEASE 📈 There is a day in your future that is lurking. It is a day that holds both promise and pain for you as a parent. This day presents a one-way door that once your family walks through it, you'll never turn around and return back to how things used to be. My family arrived on this day recently. For some families,...
7 days ago • 3 min read
Family Friday Newsletter - 2.5 min read by: Finley Robinson A Single Sentence from a Season Ahead Don't leave predictable rhythms & wonder moments to chance in your family. "So, How Was School Today?" You've likely asked your son or daughter that question at least once this week. You may have asked it a lot more. My guess is you got the same response as I always do. In fact, 90% of the time you get a giant eye roll, right? 🙄 Somehow, this has become the default parent question when kids first...
14 days ago • 3 min read
Family Friday Newsletter - 3 min read by: Finley Robinson A Single Sentence from a Season Ahead When you get rid of the comparison scale, you become free to pursue meaningful moments instead. Proven Recipe There is nothing families love more than a proven recipe. A dish that has stood the test of time, fed hundreds if not thousands of people, and passes down because it's that good. Do you have recipes like that? Something I learned early on, during the newborn stage when people kept bringing...
21 days ago • 3 min read
Family Friday Newsletter - 2.5 min read by: Finley Robinson A Single Sentence from a Season Ahead One of the hardest struggles early on in parenting is to care more about kid's internal development than their external behaviors. Normal My father was a Pediatrician for 38 years. I did the math and by himself, he had over 350,000 sick and well-child appointments in his clinic over the years. Not to mention his other partners, who combined, have seen everything you could imagine. Growing up as...
28 days ago • 2 min read
Family Friday Newsletter - 3 min read by: Finley Robinson A Single Sentence from a Season Ahead One of the gifts you can give your kids is to be a brick wall in a few carefully chosen areas of their life. No More Scale How often do you feel guilt as a parent? Somedays I wonder if parents in the 1950s felt guilt in a similar way as parents today or if it's a more modern feeling. They probably did, but still, I wonder. More than any other stage, when you're in the power-decade of parenting, the...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Family Friday Newsletter - 2 min read by: Finley Robinson A Single Sentence from a Season Ahead Freedom as a parent arrives when you accept that you're going to get a lot right and also a lot you wish you did differently. How Did You Do It? I get this question about once a week from young parents I talk with. Maybe it's because I don't have the 😩 look on my face as much anymore like most parents of 3-13 year olds. Maybe it's because when I talk about my kids now my face is more 🤩 than it has...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Family Friday Newsletter - 3 min read by: Finley Robinson A Single Sentence from a Season Ahead Parenting is a lot like gardening, where beauty only arrives on the other side of tedious effort. Teach Delayed Gratification A lot has changed for families since my wife and I became parents 20 years ago. The biggest and most noticeable difference I see today is the speed to appease that is possible in our society. Think about how quickly someone in your family can think of something they want and...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Family Friday Newsletter - 3 min read by: Finley Robinson A Single Sentence from a Season Ahead One of the greatest contributions parents can make to their kids' lives is the building of their confidence. Highest Leverage If you had 45 minutes to sit across the lunch table with anyone today, who would you choose? A lunch date with your spouse? A quick catch-up with a best friend? A week recap with your business partner? A mentor that you haven't talked with in a while? I have found there is...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Family Friday Newsletter - 3.5 min read by: Finley Robinson A Single Sentence from a Season Ahead Repeated words at home carry your family's values and vision forward into your kid's lives. Our 5 Biggest Mistakes Power-decade parents are very much slaves to the intense present of their current lives. On occasion, they pause and dream about their family's future too. It was no different for me and my wife when we were in your stage of parenting. What you never have moments for when raising...
2 months ago • 4 min read