Life Coaches Central: Where Coaching Insiders Blog About Real Issues

Everyone's got them – someone you work with who is either all over the place and completely disorganized, or someone who is downright toxic and rude. Either way, its people who are difficult to work with that often prevent you from being able to get your job done properly. This issue is especially annoying and frustrating for people like me, who are buttoned-up, organized and overly-conscious of deadlines -- otherwise know as ANAL J. In addition, I do my best to treat everyone at work the way I like to be treated -- with kindness, courtesy, and respect...regardless of how frustrated or pissed off I may be.

At a recent family dinner, I had a conversation with my mom about parenting during the teen years. Talking about parenting strategies is always interesting, since different people may surprise you by their thoughts on the subject depending on their own experience. But it's ESPECIALLY interesting to have this chat with one of your parents as an adult. THEN, to take it one step further...it's pretty fascinating to engage in this conversation with a parent once you are all grown up, but before you have kids of your own. I am old enough (32) and have had enough distance from my teen years now to pinpoint where I think my parents may be gone wrong in parenting situations. But of course, to their defense, I'm not yet in a position to judge, since I have never had to play the role of parent myself.