National STOP BULLYING Day + Nicholas and the Three Tormentors

The Character Network Presents: Heroes Help! TCN Mornings

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A HERO is someone who does something special to HELP OTHERS. Every hero STARTS as a CHILD, and every Child can CHOOSE to become a Hero... And I Know that YOU Can Be a HERO TOO!

TCN Mornings Episode 246 - Transcript for Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Good morning kids and parents! It’s WEDNESDAY...the 13th day of October. So, we’re exactly half-way through the week. And ALMOST halfway through the month. Today is National Stop Bullying Day! So, since we talk about and promote being a HERO on this program, THAT, in fact, is just OPPOSITE of being a bully! How’s that, you say? Well, HEROES do what? They HELP others. And bullies do what? They HURT others. And, hurting is the opposite of HELPING, so therefore, a bully is the OPPOSITE of a HERO. I say we should work our hardest to FULFILL National Stop Bullying Day. What say YOU about that?

Okay, so here’s a story that actually deals with a bullying incident involving 3 boys, and how a neighborhood GIRL took care of the situation! The story is called, “Nicholas and the Three Tormenters,” and it starts right now...

Nicholas and the Three Tormenters

Nicholas always knew he could be a better student, so at the beginning of this school year he decided he would start doing his best at everything. His class had a history project due on Friday, and he had been working on it for over three weeks now. When Friday came, his was the best one in the class!

On the way home that day, a boy from his class and two boys from another class called him over to talk with him. They started making fun of him. That’s when the boy from his class grabbed Nicholas’ backpack and began taking things out of it. He started throwing the things in different directions as hard as he could. The other boys just laughed.

Across the street from where all this was taking place was another classmate, Rachel, who had just gotten home and saw the whole thing from her living room window. That’s when she quickly but calmly went outside and just stood there looking at the boys. “How much of your lives are you going to waste by being losers,” she asked? “Losers!? We’re not losers,” said one of the boys! “Then name one thing” she said, “just one, that doesn’t spell loser.” You know what, they couldn’t. They couldn’t think of an answer at all! “Okay, so why don’t start thinking of ways to HELP other people instead of hurting them,” she said, as she HELPED Nicholas pick up his things.

The three boys quickly and quietly went somewhere else, and at least one of them really gave some thought to what Rachel had said. It took a lot of courage, but the next day, he saw Rachel at school and said, “Thanks.” He told her that what had she said made a lot of sense. Just like Nicholas had decided at the beginning of the school year to start doing his best in school, the other boy decided that day to start doing his best to become a HERO!

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So, if you had seen this situation, what would YOU have done. If you were Nicholas, how would you feel? Also, do you think the boy who had a change of heart and decided to start HELPING others instead of hurting others made a good choice or a bad choice? And finally, if YOU were in a similar situation, what kind of choice would YOU make? Just some questions to ask yourself on this Wednesday morning.

Well. Coming up, another visit with my Old Irish Pappy... Also, the Question of the Day, and A Reflection of Your Future. It’s all just ahead on this Wednesday edition of TCN Mornings.

But right now, let’s talk about how we might provide these stories for YOUR school! You know, over the past 22 years, these stories have been played during morning announcements in hundreds of schools around the country. Each story is about 2-minutes in length, and they are typically played twice a week. A story from the Beginning of a Hero series on Tuesdays and a story from The Beginning of a Famous Hero Series on Thursdays. So, f you think YOUR school would like to participate, just have your Principal or Counselor write to [e-mail]. Or go to TCNmornings.com and click Membership.

WELL, Let’s jump right in and visit the memory of My Old Irish Pappy, a man just FULL of wisdom about life and how to live it better.

That’s right! You can always give something, even if it is only kindness. Kind words don’t cost much but they accomplish a lot! It is ALWAYS possible to be kind.

Alright, so here we go on this Wednesday morning with the QUESTION OF THE DAY! In keeping with National Stop Bullying Day, let’s have a question about that. A LOT of kids bully other kids. It happens everywhere and it happens every day. And since that is the case, there must be some really good reasons to bully somebody else, right? So, there’s your question. Name THREE good reasons to bully somebody. And if you can’t name three, name just ONE good reason to bully somebody. One more time? Okay. Name THREE good reasons to bully somebody. And if you can’t name three, name just ONE good reason to bully somebody.

If you can, email your answer to [e-mail]. Tell us your first name, your city and state, and of course, your answer, and the first correct answer will be featured right here TOMORROW. That email address again is [e-mail]. And you DON’T want to miss the answer to that....tomorrow!

Oh, and the answer to yesterday's question: Yesterday was National Savings Day, and your question was: If you were able to earn and SAVE TEN Dollars a week. How much money would you have in just one year? How much money would you have in 10 years?

Well, Riley from Huntsville, Alabama said by saving just 10 dollars a week, in one year, you would have 520 dollars, and in 10 years, you would have 5,200 dollars. And, that’s right, so thank you, Riley for that! And, you know, that is just straight savings without interest. But you could have a lot more money if you saved it in an interest-bearing account! Yes you would!

Okay, as usual, one more quick segment ahead, but as for ME, I’ll see YOU...tomorrow for the Thursday edition of TCN Mornings here on The Character Network.

Reflection:

Closer.

Dear Parents,

After years of development, trial, and revision, we are so excited to now share with you the most effective version yet of our Proactive Bully Prevention Program that has proven to "change the culture" at hundreds of campuses across America in profound ways. Research has shown the TCN Method™ to be the single most effective school based Violence and Bully Prevention Intervention of its entire genre. We have hundreds of testimonials from educators describing the results they have gotten, and you can view many of these at www.TheCharacterNetwork.org/Testimonials

This program, The Beginning of a Famous Hero™ is used in conjunction with a companion program called Bully Alert!™ in schools played over the intercom during morning announcements twice or more each school week, and backed up by a common culture which reinforces the principles taught, at every turn, and incorporates the phrases of the academic language during any teachable moment.

These two sets of stories work together to convey a common academic language which says, “A bully is a person who hurts others on purpose (even if it’s just hurting their feelings) but a HERO is a person who HELPS others. So CHOOSE to be a HERO by HELPING instead of a bully by hurting.”

They also promote the concept of POSITIVE PERSONAL VISION, helping each student to realistically visualize his or her own "Future Self," and in doing so help relate consequences of actions and attitudes today (good or bad) to that future self.

It is the spaced repetition of these principles that makes the program effective. It is the 100% turn-key presentation that makes it easy!

This program takes VIRTUALLY NO TIME (only 4 minutes a week!) away from classroom instruction. But it also provides a common language across the entire campus when teachable moments occur!

The TCN Method has been extraordinarily successful in the past, in almost a thousand schools all across America, from California to New York, with a special concentration all over Texas, where The Character Network is based, and has been used to the benefit of well over a million students across the past two decades.

Then Covid struck, with the majority of schools ceasing in classroom instruction altogether for the majority of the previous school year, and after years of successful growth, we found ourselves in the very difficult situation of having to rebuild almost from scratch. So we started a morning podcast to help make the principles and teachings of TCN available to kids to have at home… but we need help from parents like you to get the word out, and also to help us gather financial support to once again make the method available again to not just the schools we lost due to Covid, but to every school and every child who could benefit and needs this going forward.

We invite you to become a coworker with us on our mission. Please start by visiting us at www.Patreon.com/theCharacterNetwork and considering becoming a sponsor for this work, and then dropping us a line at [e-mail] so we can learn more about you. Thank you so much!

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