The Making of a Hero

The Character Network Presents: Beginning of a Hero by Jim Lord

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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... Just like THIS one!

Jeremy was an average student in Mr. Delaney’s class. He could make Bs and Cs without even trying. He was strong and healthy and intelligent. He had a lot of friends, but when it came to grades, sports, work, or anything else, he just didn’t measure up to what he was really capable of.

Mr. Delaney kept Jeremy after school one day and started talking with him about HEROES who HELP. Jeremy started to worry. “What are you saying?, he asked.” Mr. Delaney said, “I don’t know, Jeremy. When you could be a HERO to someone in a big way and you don’t…” He kind of trailed off at that point to make Jeremy think a little. “Okay, I give up. Who am I not HELPING?” asked Jeremy.

“A lot of people,” said Mr. Delaney. “First of all, yourself—and more specifically, your future self. And then your future family, your children, and who knows how many others—if you don’t become all you are capable of being.” The teacher had Jeremy’s attention now! Mr. Delaney continued. “You have the ability (and I think because you have the ability, you also have the responsibility) to become a doctor, a scientist, a researcher, a teacher, an architect, an engineer, a lecturer—any number of things that could HELP hundreds, thousands, even millions of people, and provide a good living for yourself and your family. But you will never do any of that if you don’t dramatically increase the amount of effort you put into everything you do.

Well, Jeremy had never heard anything like that before. He had never thought past next week! But now he began to understand what Mr. Delaney was trying to tell him, and he started that same day working diligently to build the foundation for that future HERO.

That's what I know about the beginning of This Hero, and I know that YOU Can Be a Hero TOO!

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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