My kids are aged 21 through 31 now, but we always had a family meeting every Sunday morning before we’d all clean up the house, because we have five kids and everybody has scheduled stuff.
So we’d sit down every Sunday morning and everybody would get their schedule out. The kids would have their schedules and we’d have ours and everybody would compare schedules. And if they needed a ride or they had a soccer game or they had ballet or they had a school activity, we’d figure it out.
This is why when people say that kids of successful/powerful people got there just because “they knew someone”, I have to disagree. Contacts are only part of it. You can’t grow up getting these kind of habits ingrained without it having an effect on the range and scale of things you conquer as an adult.
(via nytimes)