Excellent!

No, this isn't a blog about Wayne's World expressions. Rather, I'd like to get your feedback on excellence. What does excellence in parenting look like? What brings about excellence?

As a student in a leadership class at a Christian university, we are discussing excellence. Coincidentally, this was our topic in church today.

I believe that excellence comes from meaning more than it does money. From relationships more than rules. From effort more than the skills you were born with.

Parenting with excellence involves saying what you mean, and meaning what you say, while remembering that words cut like a knife when wielded with anger. Excellent parenting requires investing in relationships while providing rules for everyone's safety and to prepare for the real world outside the haven of your home. Excellent parents try to do their best, apologize when they are at their worst and do it all over the next day.

What are you doing to cultivate excellence in parenting?

Cari Pemberton is a Certified Family Manager Coach and Director of Outreach and Training for Family Manager Coaching. She is the CEO to one husband, two daughters, two cats and one Labrador who thinks he is a person. She blogs at TheClutterCutters.blogspot.com, and her upcoming events are posted at TheClutterCutters.net.