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H omework. Whether it brings to mind bleary-eyed, Red Bull-fueled all-nighters, or if you have kids, an equally horrible image comes to mind of a frustrated, teary child yelling that they “just don’t know.” Regardless of what vision it conjures, homework is a scary word. When it comes to delegation, you have to pick the right person for the right job, and set them up to succeed.
article, changing a few common words, and turn these into bullet points on slides, bordered with his favorite Google images of “Animals in Africa.” Although I had a mountain of dishes, two loads of laundry, a fence to repair, and an article to write, I something both necessary and valuable to the organization.” “Just like helping with homework, when we can help another person understand what it is that needs to be done and why it needs to be done that way, we are providing
Christina Zweig Niehues
The other night, I stationed my 11-year-old step- son at the kitchen table with a laptop to do his homework. While I stayed busy in the kitchen, he kept calling over the counter, wanting to know another word for process, or another word for species. These are things a parent never wants to hear, and something one quickly realizes should not be answered when the homework is actually not about listing synonyms. After a brief lecture on plagiarism (as a former English major, the “P word” is something I was taught to associate with extreme fear and anxiety), and a game of “20 questions” to figure out what exactly his assignment was, I extracted the information – he was supposed to be creating a PowerPoint presentation based on an article about restoring the ecosystem of Mozambique. His solution was to copy random sentences from the
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