Browsing Posts tagged responsibility

On Saturday my family and I spoke via Skype video to our dear friends in the UK. They’re visiting next month and we thought it would be good for the children to all speak and see each other first as they have never met. I was shepherding the conversation with phrases such as, “Ask about X”, [...]

The meaning we bring to our words in a conversation is important. Each of us has grown up learning what words mean so well that we often fail to recognise others may be using the same words but with different meanings. The result? Confusion and often a lack of respect. To illustrate, let’s imaging two sergeant’s of [...]