The foundation of your farm future is the mindset of your farm children—and their attitude depends on you establishing positive attitudes and skill sets. Growing positive farm culture takes effort, time, and money, but done right, your investment will yield all kinds of personal and professional returns.
Reg combines his agricultural roots, industry background, and first-hand experience as a father of five amazing children in this presentation. It has been designed to increase awareness and enhance your ability to address, assess, analyze, and improve your parenting style to ultimately make your farm more successful.
More than 80% of your childrens’ personalities are developed before they get on the school bus in grade one! With such a short growing season, if you do not apply ideal strategies at the right stage, your children may struggle to develop to their full potential. Like any crop, kids need cultivating. Advanced knowledge of specific nutrients and inputs applied at certain stages will help them bloom. This investment may well be the largest input cost that your farm will ever incur. However, the crop is worth fertilizing! Build your knowledge and skill bank to reduce family tension and increase your “frost free” days!
"Topics addressed include"
- How to parent so there is mutual respect between you and your children
- How to prepare for the transition from the role of parent to friend
- How to let your children make the mistakes you made so they can learn what you had to learn yourself, too
- How to prioritise goals so you protect the family first and the farm second—if you put the farm over the family, you will likely lose the farm anyway.
"In some ways, I want my kids to be like my cows—I want to open the gate and have them want to come home. I don’t want to holler and chase and have them feel that they have to come home."
- client