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Real Estate and Parenting
You can’t sell what you don’t own!
Lesson Learned
If you are familiar with my writing I end with a section listing Lesson Learned. It is more than a summary of what I wrote, it is a centering exercise for me to distill all the information I have swirling about in my head.
Do you love looking at houses online? or watching those DIY home shows? I do. I even tried to win the HGTV house in my hometown of Ann Arbor. I was so bummed when the winners flipped the house — they didn’t appreciate the house or the location. For them it was just a house and a way to make a buck. For me, it was so much more.
That beautiful house was not mine.
Real Estate Ownership
When you own a home — you can make all sorts of improvements or you can just ignore your investment. Or what more commonly happens is waves of improvements as the budget allows. I suppose you could ignore it until things break and then try to fix them . . . not what I would recommend.
But what does any of this have to do with parenting?
If you don’t own it, you can’t sell it.
If you don’t practice kindness, you can’t sell it to your kids and expect them to be kind.
