She picked up the telephone, all she heard was dial tone, to really thought she heard

this time. I have told you over the years, many, many times, and if you're a frequent

listener, you're probably tired of hearing me say it, but I believe in it. The power of telling a good story.

Teach your children to communicate. And the best way to do that is have them tell a story.

You can have them tell you what they did at school today, but kids don't like to tell you what they did

at school today. But if there was an accident on the highway as mom was bringing little Suzy home,

so Suzy mom says it was an accident on the road. Yes, tell me the story paint me the picture.

Well, it was a car. I hit another car. Okay, start over. Where were the cars? I don't know

where the highway described the cars. I don't know there's one car here another car. All right,

the car who did the hitting must find some adjectives here. It was a car that did the hitting big.

Was that car small? Was somewhere in between. Was that car red, white, blue, black, green? Did it have

wood panels on the side like the Brady Bunch station wagon? What kind of wheels did it have on it?

Did it have a lift package? Were the windows tinted? Was that car going fast or slow?

What was the speed of that car relative to the cars around it? Teaching your children to explain

things in such a way that you can feel like you were there at that moment even if you weren't

is going to be very powerful in their life. When a boy is quoting a girl, he's got to tell a story.

He's got to tell a story about the life they're going to have together. That's the mating process.

When a salesman is presenting to a potential customer or if a vendor is trying to sell their wares,

if the waiter comes over, he's trying to get you to order the one special that he gets a bonus for

if he sells tonight. All of these are telling a story. Teach your children to tell a story. You

don't have to be a great storyteller. Teach your children to be. Well, David Lee Roth was

69 a few days ago and that was a big deal and so he did an interview in 2019 and the internet just

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