Are you a good foreman?

There is a picture that depicts what it means to be a boss (to tell someone what to do) vs a leader (to show someone how to do it). Lead by example.

I'm sure a great many of us have experienced a really awful boss, supervisor, team leader, or work colleague and come away from the experience disliking that person for how they left us feeling.

When it comes to parenting it's much the same.

You have to be a good foreman and run the ship in a respect and decent manner. You can't simply be demanding, yelling a lot and berating people into submission. Or be lazy and expect others to do all the work, leaving your children to turn rotten. Or controlling, thinking you're the only one who can do it well so you berate your children for not doing a good enough job.

Don't make a rod for your own back, or your children's, and don't make your job harder than it needs to be.

The idea is to make your life and the life of your children as happy and peaceful as possible. 

To do this you need to be the type of foreman you'd like to have bossing you around.

Are you a good foreman?  Are you fair?  Are you respectful?  Or are you lazy, demanding, bullying... and generally someone others wouldn't (don't) like?