It's National Chewing Gum Day! Also, Beginning of a Famous Hero: The William Wrigley Story

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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 237 - Thursday, September 30, 2021

Hey everybody! It’s a THURSDAY...the 30th and LAST day of September. National... are you ready for this? National Chewing Gum Day!! Yeah, National Chewing Gum Day! And, you know, I was curious about this chewing gum day thing, so I did some research about it. And some of the things I learned is that humans have apparently used chewing gum for over 5,000 years. One source says they may have chewed it for enjoyment, to stave off hunger, or to freshen their breath much like we do today. In fact, I learned SEVERAL things about chewing gum. But one thing I DID NOT learn is WHY September 30th was chosen for National Chewing Gum Day. Nowhere could I find and answer to that question. Different sources of information about chewing gum said they were still researching the ORIGIN of National Chewing Gum Day...on September 30! I even asked: WHY September 30th chosen to celebrate Chewing Gum? And the answer pretty much across the board was...Uh...I don’t know. Well, could it be....Could it POSSIBLY be that September 30th is the day on which William Wrigley was born??! You know, William Wrigley, the founder of Wrigley’s Chewing Gum? So, that means today would have been his birthday! Is that just a coincidence? Or COULD it be that THAT is the reason September 30th is National Chewing Gum Day? Anyway, if today also happens to be YOUR birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to YOU, too. And we actually have a beginning of a Famous Hero Story ABOUT William Wrigley! It’s called the William Wrigley Story, and it starts right now.

The William Wrigley Story.

Well, you noticed that as soon as William was old enough, he became very interested in helping out in his father’s business. His father was a soap maker, and even as a child and a young man, William would help his father by finding new customers to sell soap to. Is there something YOU could do to help your parents in a way that could make life better for them and for others? Also, you heard that William Wrigley often said, “Even in a little thing like a stick of gum, QUALITY is important.” How important is quality to you in the things you do? Just some questions to ask yourself on this Thursday morning.

Well... Just ahead, another visit with my Old Irish Pappy... Also, the Question of the Day, and A Reflection of Your Future, all still in front of us here on this Thursday Edition of TCN Mornings.

Right now, though, I wanted to talk about my book. It's called Mr. Delaney's Mirror. It's about a student in Mr. Delaney's class who gets a glimpse of her own personal FUTURE Self, and the life she will be having when she's like 30-years old! Her name was Bay Chandler, and her future according to the mirror was NOT a happy one. The rest of the book follows Bay through middle school, high school, and college. It shows step-by-step what she did to take her from the person she was in Mr. Delaney’s class to the FUTURE Bay she WANTED to be, instead of the one she saw in the mirror. You can order your copy of the book on Amazon.com, or anywhere books are sold online. Just Google Mr. Delaney’s Mirror. Mr. Delaney's Mirror. Check it out!!

Okay...it’s time now to catch a thought from My Old Irish Pappy, a man just FULL of wisdom about life and how to live it better.

You bet! SO, Look ahead to when you’re an adult. Do you want to be trusted and respected? How about now? If you want people to trust you, you’ve gotta be trustworthy. If you want people to respect you, you’ve gotta be respectable! And remember that TRUST, once lost, is VERY hard to get back! My old Pappy sure knew what he was talking about!!

Alright, so here we go on this Thursday morning with the QUESTION OF THE DAY! Today is National Chewing Gum Day, so let’s have a question about that. You heard earlier that throughout history, people chewed all kinds of things from tree resin to whale blubber! But your question today is what is chewing gum made from today? What is chewing gum made from today?

If you know, email you 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].

Okay...SO...about yesterday’s question: Yesterday was Caroline Yale’s birthday, and we talked about the work she did to help hearing impaired students. Well, something that wasn’t mentioned was a man (an inventor) that she work with for a short time, and helped him in HIS work to help hearing impaired people and, in turn, he helped her as well. HE is actually well known for something else, but many people don’t realize that helping deaf people with his inventions was the basis of his entire life’s work. So, your question was: Who was this man, and what invention is he best known for?

Well, Kailee from Rogersville, Alabama says Alexander Graham Bell was who Caroline worked with for a short time. He helped her with her work, and she helped him. And Alexander Graham Bell is best known for inventing the telephone. And that’s right! So, thank you Kailee for that answer! And one more thing, she also hired as a teacher a lady named Grace Goodhue, who later became Grace Coolidge when she married Calvin Coolidge who was the 30th president of the United States.

Okay, as usual, one more quick segment ahead, but as for me, I will see you...tomorrow for the FRIDAY 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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