{"id":43141,"date":"2024-11-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=43141"},"modified":"2024-11-14T11:40:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T18:40:37","slug":"when-did-you-teach-someone-something-that-made-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/when-did-you-teach-someone-something-that-made-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"When did you teach someone something that made a difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>To participate in Just 1 Question, and receive the issues one week early,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/just1question.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">sign up here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Morning Choices<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>My young son, just learning to talk, would cry every morning to have us come in to get him out of his crib. I suggested that he didn\u2019t need to cry or get upset to have us do that. The next morning we were greeted with a cheerful \u201ctime for upeee!\u201d We burst into laughter and hopped out of bed to do just that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Mom of Daniel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A quiet lesson in safe driving.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>When my son had been driving for about a year, he confided in me that he and a friend had been racing on a highway on their respective ways home from a party. \u201cDon&#8217;t tell mom,\u201d he said, smiling mischievously, \u201cbut at one point I was going 100 miles an hour.\u201d I calmly said, \u201cI&#8217;m glad both of you got home safe; imagine how you&#8217;d feel if you saw her crashing against the wall at that speed.\u201d His smile vanished, he went pale and quietly said, \u201cOh.\u201d I could tell that he wouldn&#8217;t be doing that again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ricardo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Normal Families<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>I am a clinical social worker who spent many years training individuals who were entering the field. I always told them \u201cIf anyone thinks there is such a thing as a&nbsp;<em>normal<\/em>&nbsp;family, they haven&#8217;t taken the opportunity to sit down and talk to them.\u201d I was told that that advice helped guide many to take the time to truly get to know the families they were working with and to be more open to the definition of family itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin P<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A pleasant surprise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>I got a message from a former coworker a few months ago. She said \u201cHey just wanted to let you know I think about you often at work. 1) How boring it is without you to laugh about stuff 2) I\u2019ll never forget you helping me with stuff like learning Excel basics when I started, how you helped me in so many ways. Your calm, level headed perspective is what I strive for. Trying to pay some of those things forward at work. Thank you. \ud83e\udd70\u201d We haven\u2019t worked together for more than a decade, we first started working together about 20 years ago, and we aren\u2019t in regular contact so it was a surprise to hear from her. I had no idea that I\u2019d had such an impact on her, but I\u2019m sure glad I did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>TING, Seattle WA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Answer our open questions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>When did you see the sun rise? Why were you there?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/Xr4toA2uqJSCcPE7A\">Answer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>What is the easiest way to make you laugh?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/96WdBYEJfjisgrtk8\">Answer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just One Question #10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2400],"tags":[2401],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43144,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43141\/revisions\/43144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}