Listen, and speak.
"If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the…
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Rivalry
"Last one into the house is a rotten egg!" Making ordinary tasks into competitions can be a powerful way to motivate behavior. But it also…
Hope
Sunday we lit the first candle of Advent--the Hope Candle. There's an ancient saying: "Hope deferred makes the heart sick." When our longings are not…
Tell stories
"No organization that exists simply for itself is worth leading. Leaders what to lead organizations and movements that make a difference--that fill a need and…
Own it.
Children have a sixth sense for hypocrisy. Adults do too. There's Hypocrisy (with a capital H) that rightly ruins credibility. This is avoided by a…
Try it again
I'm a huge fan of Indian food. It's a part of my heritage--my Dad's folks were missionaries in India. We grew up eating home-cooked rice…
Contributing kids
"In an agrarian society, kids realize their worth because parents really need them. Today with day-care, etc., they never realize how worthwhile they are."--John D.…
Do you know them?
We teach our kids (rightly) not to talk (too much) to strangers. My children are working to learn their community--trying to remember names and faces.…
You come too
The Pasture By Robert Frost I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water…
Who are they?
Fred Rogers, in his acceptance speech for a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Emmy Awards, surprised the viewers by requesting that they spend 10…