Zeenat Thawer – Better Parents are Better Leaders (#13)

Zeenat holds an MSc. in Training and Human Resource Management degree from Leicester University in the UK.  She is also an accredited Mediator and Trainer. Zeenat has trained in the UK and holds a Masters degree in Human Resource Management. She is also a certified Mediator and Trainer from the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), UK, and is an accredited faculty and leadership coach for Leadershape Global, UK. Zeenat enjoys volunteering and spends a major part of her spare time assisting community organizations. Having worked in the industry both abroad and in Tanzania, Zeenat manages to blend in with global cutting-edge management skills within the cultural context by adapting the content to suit local culture and circumstances.

Today, Zeenat joins me to help us better understand what goes on in the mind of a teenager. She discusses the difference between preventing your children from doing something because it is bad for them and preventing them from doing something because that’s not what you would have done. She discusses what it means to be mindful and how we can nurture this in our children. She also explains how we can work with our families to help develop important leadership skills at an early age.

“Remember that each child is an individual with a different personality, a unique personality. They have special interests, likes dislikes. They’re very different from you, right? So they’re not a mini you as a parent.”

– Zeenat Thawer

This week on the Engage Relate Perform Podcast:

• How the teenage brain develops
• The impulsive and cautious sides of our brain
• What it means to be mindful and how do we nurture this as a child
• Teenagers that are making a difference in the world
• How parents can help nurture a teenager’s interests
• The importance of having a family meeting, and let the child chair the meeting
• Do you need to become a friend to your child?
• Understanding how each child is unique and not a “mini-me”
• How parents are leaders
• The neuroplasticity of a child/teen’s brain