http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/PWAS_045b.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSShttp://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/PWAS_045b.mp3Podcast (parenting-with-a-story-podcast-series): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSSAs many parents find out, we often learn just as much from our kids as they learn from us. This week’s life lesson is an example of that, so I’ve asked my 11-year-old son, Ben, to…
Month: January 2016

A Sharecropper's Daughter in the 21st Century
http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/LWAS_046.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSShttp://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/LWAS_046.mp3Podcast (lead-with-a-story-podcast-series): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSSIn honor of Martin Luther King Day, this week’s story reminds us that despite the progress we’ve made, we have more work to do. A sharecropper’s daughter Beverly Keown was born on a plantation in Seaton,…

The world is full of IDIOTS! (And what you can do about it)
http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/PWAS_044.mp3Podcast (parenting-with-a-story-podcast-series): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS We’re all so enamored of our own opinion, it’s sometimes hard to imagine why anyone would do something we see no sense in. So it’s easy to dismiss a decision we don’t understand as being foolish, which means we think the person who made…

3 Absurd Consequences of the 'Escalated Approver' rule
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