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Here’s something that happened just a couple of days ago. I was driving between Louisville and Cincinnati and I pulled into a McDonald’s for refueling, something I don’t normally do but which goes to show you that a couple hundred million dollars a year in advertising does build neurological bridges in the brain.

At the table opposite me sat a young farmer type and his six year old boy. The man looked lost in thought, worried. The boy occasionally blurted out double sentence comments, but since they didn’t even get his father to look at him, he lapsed back into short segments of silence. It seems like they just sat there in silence for the longest time, just eating. There wasn’t a lot of communication going on, at least not talking. Actually the father did make a few brief, whispered comments near the end so he wasn’t oblivious of his son.

Now I have no right to make judgments on others – I know that — but it got me to thinking, “Mister, I wish I could share with you that your boy loves you and wants you to listen to him. You probably think you are listening but you are only hearing. Hearing is what we do when vibrations get in our ear canals. Listening is different because listening is what we do with those vibrations in our minds and hearts. You’re a lucky man to have that 6 year old son. If you want to show him you love him, stop listening to your own thoughts and listen to his.”

This is Doug Smart with Smarter by the Minute. Make today a smart day!

Copyright 2000 by Doug Smart. All rights reserved.

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