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Greetings!
Mitigation. It's important. And it's not always easy to do. A case in point:
Picture this. Last week, my 10-year-old son, Tano, and I were in Target. I am not a recreational shopper. I was there to get something specific and go. He wanted to check out the toy section. Mitigation: "Tano, I want to be clear that I am not buying any toys. You may look, but I am not buying a toy today." He agreed. That went well. Usually does. Good kid. And so I clomped over to the toys, shoppers scattering out of my way (wield a cane and all of a sudden, you're afforded some serious personal space!). And there I found him. Enraptured. And there I was. Exhausted. I could see the bargaining and scheming going on beneath his Dodger-blue Mohawk; I figured on a plea to use his future earnings to pay me back. And so, once again, I turned to my friend mitigation, figuring I'd nip it in the bud and not even entertain the argument: "Tano, I am Never going to buy that. We are leaving now."
Well, you should know that we have rules in our house about not saying certain words - dumb, stupid, hate, and Never are among them. So, when I said Never (with a capital N), I was BUSTED! And he jumped right on it, gleefully wagging his finger at me in the busy Target toy aisle and saying at the top of his lungs "Oooh! Mom! You just said the N-word." If I'd thought the aisles cleared because of my cane, you should have seen the giant step back at that! And with that I forgot all about being sick and thought I might just die of embarrassment instead.
I told that story last night at a church "mindful parenting" group (which I attended thinking maybe I should brush up a bit). It got a laugh, but it also got me thinking about how hard it is to mitigate, to anticipate, to fix it before it's broken. And that brought to mind all of you and how impressive and admirable it is that you succeed in such big ways in doing what I failed at in even the smallest circumstance. It also made me think about perspective and how if I'd put myself in Tano's shoes and thought through what I was about to say as well as how it would sound to him, I might have avoided nearly mortal mortification.
And so, I share with you some advice from the last night's event (because family dynamics do have a lot in common with workplace relationships). "Imagine how you appear and sound from your child's [co-workers', employees', boss', etc.] point of view; imagine having you as a parent [manager, etc.] today, in this moment. How might you modify how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you say?" Good advice, because really, we reap what we sow. In my case, I sowed the seed that sprouted the vocabulary police. And I'll Never say Never again, I promise!
Buffy Rojas
DRI International Director of Communications
brojas@drii.org
(610) 792-4802
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Weather-Related Disasters
and The Dog Days of Summer | 
This week DRI International's Disaster Dog, Molly, brings you an interesting article from Computerworld about weather-related incidents, including outages stemming from the excessive heat we've been experiencing lately. Molly also reminds you to keep yourself and your pets hydrated and not to leave pets unattended in car for even a few minutes. And for those of you who don't know about Molly, click here for her history and take a gander at the photo above. That's Molly. And what she did on the deck, that's her idea of gardening and just another reason she deserves the title Disaster Dog. |
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DRI Foundation Supports Haitian Relief
|  The Disaster Recovery International Foundation is pleased and proud to support The Mahila Partnership in its efforts to aid women in Haiti. "Thanks to DRI International's sponsorship, we will be expanding our project in Haiti to improve post-disaster economic and health outcomes for women through local sanitary pad production and health clinic distribution," said Mahila's Angela Devlen. "What does this mean for a woman in Haiti? She earns a self-sustaining income. She gains knowledge on feminine hygiene. She reclaims her dignity, her health and her independence." |
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How Would You Grade Your Tests and Exercises? |  I grabbed this cartoon from a friend's Facebook page because it reminded me of testing and how difficult is to really test your plans and program. Are you using the right kinds of tests and exercises in the right situations? Do you test often enough? And are the "results" revealing what you want and need to know? That's the subject of this week's one-question survey. Click here to take the survey, and check back next week for the results. |
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