A true leader is one who takes personal responsibility and ownership....
This boy in the next table at the restaurant ....was super active ...all over the place ...would just not listen to the parents who tried to discipline him.
Standing in the long sofa that connected both the table he was making kite out of the napkins...throwing the spoon and knife down...... and finally what I feared happened.... juice glass in hand ...jumping ....lost balance and he spilled it over my trousers .....
Father “Rohan ....that’s not done ...I have been warning you ...say sorry to the uncle...say sorry ...”
The boy muttered something ...that I could not hear...
Mother “I think more than Rohan we should say sorry .... I am really sorry for what happened....”
On our way back..........
‘You saw how the father was insisting on that brat to say sorry ....” That was me
My wife “I am actually thinking of “the mother who took responsibility” for what he did and said sorry to us. I felt she realized the embarrassment over the short comings of her son and took personal ownership tendering an apology.
Besides the mother to mother connectivity ... one could see and sense the real leader in the family
This boy in the next table at the restaurant ....was super active ...all over the place ...would just not listen to the parents who tried to discipline him.
Standing in the long sofa that connected both the table he was making kite out of the napkins...throwing the spoon and knife down...... and finally what I feared happened.... juice glass in hand ...jumping ....lost balance and he spilled it over my trousers .....
Father “Rohan ....that’s not done ...I have been warning you ...say sorry to the uncle...say sorry ...”
The boy muttered something ...that I could not hear...
Mother “I think more than Rohan we should say sorry .... I am really sorry for what happened....”
On our way back..........
‘You saw how the father was insisting on that brat to say sorry ....” That was me
My wife “I am actually thinking of “the mother who took responsibility” for what he did and said sorry to us. I felt she realized the embarrassment over the short comings of her son and took personal ownership tendering an apology.
Besides the mother to mother connectivity ... one could see and sense the real leader in the family