Being an Ambitious Parent- Can Ambition & Parenting truly co-exist?

Being an ambitious parent is tricky,… it comes with a lot of guilt..

I don't just mean ambitions for your kids,.. I mean ambitions that you have for your own self, your Life, Career,.. that kind of stuff . Because, the expectation is that a parent needs to be all sacrificing for their kids… everything you do has to be for them,.. but we also want things for ourselves.. and so were left with guilt. Either for not doing.. Enough for our kids or enough for ourselves,..you have to pick one, one of them has to be the main thing.. but you can never truly pick one.

So, what if the solution isn't to pick between them at all,.. just do both. Take care of yourself, so you can take care of your child.

and remind your self, constantly… that you're not choosing between them. You have to do both to be your best self,.. because that's what being an ambitious parent is,.. you have two things that drive you in life, that power you forward, to balance each other out when one of them takes too much space, that help you build the skills to be better with the other and both give you joy without ever having to feel guilty about the other…

( It might also show your kids how they don't have to feel this guilt themselves as they get older..so don't hesitate from talking to them about this as well)