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    Motherhood and its mishaps

    Watch Your Tone, Little Mama

    posted by Katherine Wintsch April 6, 2018 0 comments

    These days I do more than my fair share of delivering speeches to large groups of people. In fact, I’ve studied the art of giving powerful presentations for decades. However, I never once thought about applying the lessons learned to my role as a mother.

    Until this week, when my son took some of my tried-and-true advice and threw it back in my face. And it hurt.

    You see, one way to make sure you give a stellar speech is to use a technique that’s referred to as vocal variety — meaning: using the tone of your voice to add extra meaning to the words that are coming out of your mouth.

    Let me give you an example and you give it a whirl. Take a look at the following sentence and decide how you’d say each one out loud based on the various underlying meanings.

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Katherine is a nationally recognized expert on the topic of modern motherhood. The majority of her expertise comes from studying the passion and pain points of mothers around the world — the rest is accumulated from a little trial and a whole lot of error while raising her own two children, Layla and Alex, with her husband, Richard, in Richmond, Virginia.

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    April 6, 2018
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