Synchronize a Watch for Timeliness
Many years ago, when people actually wore watches on their wrists—yes, this is like a fairy tale from the “olden days”—people commonly excused their being late for a meeting or a call by saying, “Oh, my watch has a different time from yours.”
Of course, rarely was that explanation truthful. The truth was that the speaker:
- Hadn’t looked at his watch.
- Didn’t care about the time.
- Didn’t care about making the other person wait.
- Hadn’t bothered to periodically synchronize their watch with a timekeeping device of known accuracy.
- Was doing something enjoyable to him until the last minute and simply didn’t plan well enough to be on time.
But now we have cell phones, which are all time synchronized to within one-hundredth of a second. So, gone are the days of pretending that we don’t know what time it is. This has mostly prompted us to come up with other excuses for being late, but at least that one has disappeared.
Synchronize Your Parenting "Watch" for Success
Similarly, in the past we could accurately claim that we “didn’t know how” to love and teach our children. Certainly, we were not taught in school, nor by our parents or any other source. We tried to avoid the obvious mistakes, but avoiding mistakes alone is rarely enough to guide us to doing something right.
But now we have the principles found in the Parenting Training, which work consistently if steadily applied, so we don’t need to make up excuses about our parenting mistakes. And our children can no longer claim that they “didn’t know” what was true or loving.
Hurray! We’re synchronized. Stay on the path. Synchronize your parenting watch with the truth and with Real Love, and your parenting successes will grow exponentially.
