Posts Tagged ‘child’
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
When our youngest daughter was four, we were visiting friends out of town. She and their four-year-old were upstairs putting on dress-up clothes. The doorbell rang, and the police officer standing on the front porch explained there had been an emergency call from a child at the residence. Mystified as to what was going on, [...]
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Tags: call, campers, child, counselors, daughter, dial 9, doorbell, dress up clothes, emergency call, face value, front porch, officer, police, porch, precocious child, standing, town, upstairs, youngest daughter
Friday, September 10th, 2010
Our middle child – and only son – turns 16 today. That means this afternoon we’re heading to the Department of Public Safety where he’ll take his driver’s license test. As he’s spent a lot of hours behind the wheel since getting his learner’s permit, I’m confident he’ll pass in flying colors. (That’s assuming he [...]
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Tags: child, course, department of public safety, driver, flying colors, game, grand prize, instruction, license, license test, lot, new game, parallel parking, poor judgment, reminder notes, reset button, road, road hazards, son, stop signs, thing, today
Monday, August 31st, 2009
Some say how you act as an adult is determined when you are a child. If that’s the case, I’m amazed many leaders have forgotten one of the best lessons they learned at a young age. It’s something one of my business mentors convinced me to adopt as a habit long ago: send a hand-written [...]
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Tags: adult, age, business, business mentors, business session, case, casual lunch, child, cotton bowl, forgotten one, formal business, great impressions, habit, mail, meeting, outgoing mail, Rick Baker, something, T Cotton, time, voice mail
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
I played youth baseball for five seasons…and our record always seemed to be 8-8. My team lost the league finals in eighth grade basketball. Through all my years of competitive sports as a kid the only trophies I ever won were in Putt-Putt tournaments, where I had an adept skill of hitting the ball exactly [...]
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Tags: assignment, attic, awakenings, baseball, basketball, basketball team, championship, child, competitive sports, five seasons, grade, grade a student, grade basketball, putt putt, sideboards, team, Texas, trophy, winning a championship, youth, youth baseball
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Friday, September 10th, 2010Our middle child – and only son – turns 16 today. That means this afternoon we’re heading to the Department of Public Safety where he’ll take his driver’s license test. As he’s spent a lot of hours behind the wheel since getting his learner’s permit, I’m confident he’ll pass in flying colors. (That’s assuming he [...]
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Tags: child, course, department of public safety, driver, flying colors, game, grand prize, instruction, license, license test, lot, new game, parallel parking, poor judgment, reminder notes, reset button, road, road hazards, son, stop signs, thing, today