#665: Let Him Be Board
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It was a summer day, and three dads were trying to come up with a way to keep their children occupied. They rummaged through their garages and found wiffle balls and wooden paddles. After taking their kids to a neighbor’s badminton court, the dads lowered the net, and let the children whack the wiffle balls. Those three bored fathers had no idea that they had just developed a game that would later become extremely popular, called Pickleball. There’s a lesson for us parents in this story– let ...
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