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There are more than five things that great families and teams do, but these are important ones to practice. Great families and teams don’t just happen; they are created, protected and nurtured. The steps I am sharing are all “action” items, which means they won’t happen without a diligent and determined effort to make them happen.

I’ve been struck with an odd realization this summer: I’m closer to having kids in 4-H and youth programs than I am to having been a participant myself.

Sometimes farm kids look at things totally different than other people do. Such is the case in what happened many years ago in my Sunday school classroom when I was a small child.

How many times have we all heard the phrase, “You never listen to me!”? The majority of the time it’s said from spouse to spouse, from parents to kids, and from politicians to those of us that work for a living.

One of the consequences of living in a city is inevitably picking up a few friends who are vegetarians. They see me order a burger and ask how I can eat beef, knowing that cattle contribute to greenhouse gases.

In a science class in college, I watched a video depicting rock formation and movement. The film hypothesized that rocks gradually change shape over time, not just with erosion but a kind of stretching.