Our Children Will Follow

I watched a movie recently about a horse that won the Breeders Cup after healing from a broken leg and then getting into the race on a long shot willed to happen by the sheer love and passion the young daughter had for the horse and her father played by Kurt Russell. The movie was 'Dreamer: Inspired By A True Story' and also starred Dakota Fanning as the young daughter. The horse was named Sonador and the story is very inspirational on many counts but what I want to write about today is how the father, Ben Crane, let his daughter Cale Crane make her own decisions after giving her majority ownership in the horse. It was her business. Right or wrong, the decisions were hers and she pursued a dream that even her own father admitted in private to his wife was a "pike dream", which was to run in the 22nd Breeders Cup in Kentucky.

Proverb: "Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime".

Cale Crane learned much about the business of breeding and racing horses by doing. More than she would have learned just sitting on the knee of her father listening to stories. Albeit the stories are important but when we allow our children to be part of our business, even at a young age, they learn much more. Now that my children are entering their twenties I am excited to hear them talking about and planning on starting their own businesses. We may not be aware of it but, our children do watch us and then become us sooner than we realize. Why not let them learn through experience making right and wrong decisions and act as their mentor along the way? There are many great jobs/professions in the world to be proud of but why not help them understand that having a job is not their only option. Entrepreneurship and Business Ownership are also options if they choose.

What are you doing to lead the way for them? Because 'Our Children Will Follow'.