Today is National LESS THAN PERFECT DAY + He Was Told He Couldn't Sing + Irish Pappy's Weekly Wrap Up

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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 238 - Friday, October 1, 2021

And yes it is! FRIDAY that is!! We’re looking at day number 1 in the month of October...

AND.... Today is National Less Than Perfect Day. National Less Than Perfect Day?! What does that even mean? Well, it says here... it’s a day to accept that it's okay to not be perfect. Some people are perfectionists that are very hard on themselves if they make a mistake, and some people are okay with their faults. It goes on to say that no matter where you fall on that spectrum, today is a day to remember that we all make mistakes and that we should try hard at everything we do, but not so hard as to stress ourselves out. This comes from a site, by the way called Checkiday.com. It suggests ways to observe this day...it says to spend the day trying to keep yourself from stressing out about things you aren't perfect at. It might be a day to challenge yourself to try new and difficult things, because at the same time you will be focusing on not caring if you can't do them with perfection. Well, okay then! Happy National Less Than Perfect Day to you!

Moving on, it was a Less Than Perfect Day for a kid named Jamie in the upcoming story. Actually, he wasn’t being hard on himself, but his friend was certainly giving him a difficult time. Until the DAD in the story stepped up and explained things! The story is called He Was Told He Couldn’t Sing, and it starts right now!

He Was Told He Couldn’t Sing

So, did someone ever accuse you of being bad at something you thought you did well?

How did THAT make you feel? And, be honest, now! Did you ever tell someone he or she wasn’t doing something well? How do you think it made him or her feel? Also, what might have happened if Kyle’s father had not taken HIS friend so seriously back in the day? And finally, how do you think Kyle’s dad’s story affected Kyle and also Kyle’s friend, Jamie? What do you think they learned from it? What did YOU learn from it? Just some questions to ask yourself on this Friday morning.

Alright then. Coming up, another visit with my Old Irish Pappy... Also, the Question of the Day, and A Reflection of Your Future...right here on this Friday edition of TCN Mornings.

Well, as I’ve mentioned many times before, I hope you have someone in YOUR life like My Old Irish Pappy. Someone who is FULL of wisdom, who can TEACH you on a regular basis about life and how to live it better.

But before we get into TODAY’S Pappyism, this IS Friday, so, let’s review what he taught us Monday through Thursday... Here we go!

MONDAY

Always THINK before you act. Always consider the consequences of your choices all day long, every day! Choices DO have consequences!

TUESDAY

We make choices all-day-long every day. Learn the difference between good choices and bad choices, then CHOOSE what’s good.

WEDNESDAY

Don’t mess with other people’s stuff! Don’t touch it... don’t move it... don’t use it without the owner’s permission. That’s one way to live in peace with those around you!

THURSDAY

If you want people to trust you, you’ve got to be trustworthy. If you want people to respect you, you’ve got to be respectable! Okay, and NOW, here are some words of wisdom for FRIDAY from my Old Irish Pappy.

My Old Irish Pappy...

Yeah! Remember, if you really want to make someone’s day (and score a few HERO points for yourself while you’re at it), just use these 7 magic words and put them in question form. “What can I do to help you?” Just think about the times you get overwhelmed with things you need to get done. Think how you would feel if someone voluntarily offered you some help! “What can I do to help you?” Indeed, there’s MAGIC in them there words!

Okay, Now it's time for the QUESTION OF THE DAY! Remember that today is National Less Than Perfect Day, and it a day to start realizing that none of us is perfect, and that we all make mistakes, and to just do the best we can and not worry about it. So, let’s get a little deeper into that subject by asking this question: What is a perfectionist? What is a perfectionist?

If you know, 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 on Monday. That email address again is [e-mail].

Well, yesterday, you remember was National Chewing Gum Day, so we had a question about that. You heard that throughout history, people chewed all kinds of things from tree resin to whale blubber! Yeah! But your question was what is chewing gum made from today? Well, J.D. from Cranston, Rhode Island says chewing gum is made of 3 basic things: resin, wax, and elastomer. Elastomer... Elastomer? Resin comes from trees, and elastomer is a kind of plastic made from plants and not from petroleum. And wax is used to make the gum soft. So, there ya go! And, J. D. thank you for that!

Well, here’s hoping you have a GREAT weekend!! Stick around...one more quick segment ahead, but as for me, Jim Lord...I’ll see you the first thing next week for the MONDAY edition of TCN Mornings right 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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