Father Daughter relationship

Which relationship has taught you the most about yourself?

I revealed most about me in my relationship with my daughter. All my beliefs were shattered and I was shown my real self with softness and kindness.

I call this as a reverse mentoring. This concept is very popular in corporate culture, when the youngsters or juniors mentor the seniors or their bosses.

In the same way my daughter has always mentored me, gently and firmly to show where I am going wrong and what I need to improve.

Let me explain this with the situation. This was the time when my younger daughter and me were staying together. She attended her college and I was working with a German MNC at senior leadership position.

Being in a leadership position, my day used be spent in reviewing the results and telling the team about the next steps. It was considered as best leadership trait that you are able to guide people about the next step.

Due to this habit, whenever youngsters from my relatives used to share something with me, I used to analyse and tell them the issue with what they are doing. I used to guide them as to what they should do.

My daughter listened to this once and then sat with me for a brief moment. She explained me that neither you are in your office nor they are your subordinates. Why do you want to tell them that their decision is wrong. Why can’t you just listen to them and praise for what they have done.

I said to her, that I can’t lie because I know the truth. Then she explained to me that papa, most of the people are telling you to get just your approval for what they have done, not to examine their decision.

With such behaviour, no one will come to you to share anything. I understood my mistake and corrected myself. Stopped giving unwanted advice to people. And suddenly I saw change in relatives behaviour. Now they were more friendly with me.

On various such occasions, I learned my behaviour errors from my daughter and corrected them. Off course the mentoring was very lovely experience.

My daughter used to tell me, Daddy you are my hero and my role model, I can’t tolerate if my hero is so rude to others. Please don’t be so mean to people.

So there was no choice for me but to change. For every father, his daughter is princess and he is is extremely possessive about her.

So this beautiful relationship taught me tough lessons of life.

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