大多数人都听过一句话，“领袖不是天生的，而是被塑造的”。我们每个人都有与生俱来的天赋和能力，但一个领袖的素质绝不仅于此，它还取决于一个人的特质、技能等等，这些特质吸引人们去跟随一个人。


虽然领袖需要具备各种各样的素质和表现，但是好的领袖都有一些共同点：他们极具责任感，言行一致，知道如何担负重担，从而证明自己是值得信赖的。


家庭是塑造领袖的最佳场所。虽然我们的初衷不是培养孩子成为领袖，但我们的目的却是要培养他们的责任感。他们需要为他们口中的话语负责，当他们能保持言行一致时应得到极大的肯定。我们希望他们能按时完成任务、并且学会要为自己的行为负责任。我们教导年长的孩子要照顾年幼的孩子，教导他们设立目标并努力达成。我们所做的努力虽然不完全，但我们将会看到我们努力的成果，当人们称赞我的孩子们做的事情时，将显出他们是极具责任感的；
或是遇到别人都不关心的事情和人的时候，我的孩子却非常愿意关心这些事情或人。
现在，我们的孩子们都已将长大成人。我发现，孩子年幼时期我们培养他们的一些习惯衍生出另一个副产品，这是在养育他们的时候我没有意识到的，在我教导他们要有责任感的同时，也预备他们以独特的方式成为了一名领袖。
英文原文 
Responsibility

Most of us have heard the expression, “Leaders are not born, they are made”.While we are all born with different natural talents and abilities, the qualities which make someone a leader go way beyond what is inbred. There are matters of character, and skill, for instance, which compel people to want to follow in the footsteps of another.
While there are a variety of leadership practices andexpressions, there is something which all good leaders have in common: they are responsible.They do what they say they are going to do. They know how to shoulder burdens. They prove themselves to be trustworthy.

The family is the perfect place to raise leaders. We did not set out to make leaders of our children, but we did purpose to make them responsible.We placed a high value on our children keeping their word, and finishing their work on time, and picking up after themselves. We taught the older ones to help care for the younger ones. We taught them to set goals and work towards them. While we were by no means perfect in our efforts, the fruit of our resolve is that people have at times come up to us and commented that our children would do things that reflected this sense of responsibility, or

would take care of something or someone at times when others would not.
Now, as our children have grown, the habits we have taught them from young have had another byproduct that really was not in our minds when we were raising them. We taught them to be responsible, but at the same time we had prepared them to become leaders, each in their own unique way.
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