Happy National SAVINGS Day and the Warren Buffet Hero 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!

Hey kids and parents, welcome into your Tuesday, the 12th day of October.

Today is National SAVINGS Day!

And what a great day to start a SAVINGS account, if you don’t already have one. Sometimes, it’s hard to even think about saving money, but we have no problem saving other things! Some people save...baseballs. Some people save...stamps. Others save action figures, dolls, books, video games...all kinds of stuff! I know, we call that “Collecting,” but it’s the same thing isn’t it? So, if saving MONEY is hard to wrap your head around, just call it Collecting Money!!

And what a great time to start, here on National Savings Day!! And one more quick point about that before we move on. An easy way to do that is anytime you have a dollar, set back 20 cents before you spend that dollar. Just pretend you DON’T HAVE that 20 cents. If you have 5 dollars, set back a dollar. Put it in a special place (a bank, if you can) and NEVER touch it.

When you have enough, INVEST it, and let IT make more money FOR you. Talk to an investment professional and get some more good advice about that!!

And, yes, even KIDS can start saving and investing money!! Your future self will thank you immensely!!

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The Beginning of a HERO: The Warren Buffet Story

It was August 30, 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska that Mr. and Mrs. Buffet had their second child and named him Warren. Even as a very young child, Warren had a great interest in working to earn money. He would go door-to-door selling chewing gum, Coca-Cola, and weekly magazines. He was only ten years old when he visited the New York Stock exchange. The next year, he began investing his money. By the time he graduated from high school, he had accumulated many thousands of dollars! Over time, Warren Buffett would continue to work, invest his money, and buy stock in many, many companies. In 2008, he became the richest man in the world, owning very large parts of dozens of well-known companies, including Coca-Cola and American Express.

But, now that he has earned SO MUCH MONEY, what does he do with it? He GIVES it away—to HELP all kinds of people in all kinds of ways. In fact, he has pledged to give away 99-percent of ALL his money! In 2006, he gave over 30-Billion-Dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a very well known charitable organization.

Warren Buffett—now there’s a great example of a young child working hard to earn money then learning how to invest his money and grow his money and finally USE his hard work and the money he earned to HELP others. Warren Buffett—a great example of how to become a HERO!

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So, even a child, Warren Buffett was busy working to earn money. What kind of work have you done to earn money? And, what do you do with your money after you earn it? (Hint: Saving part of it is a really good idea!) Also, would you like to have enough money to be able give away a lot of it? Who would you give it to and what would you hope they would do with it? Just some questions to ask yourself on this Tuesday morning.

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Well now, My Old IrishPappy. Let’s check in and see what words of wisdom he has for us today!

"It's not what happens to you but how you REACT to you that matters. Now that's something to think about there."

Absolutely! It’s not what happens to you but how you react to what happens to you that matters.

One more time? It’s not what happens to you but how you react to what happens to you that matters.

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Okay, Now... It's time for the QUESTION OF THE DAY! Well, this being National Savings Day, let’s have a question about that. What if you were able to earn and SAVE say... TEN Dollars a week. How much money would you have in just one year? How much money would you have in 10 years? 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?

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 TOMORROW. That email address again is [e-mail].

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Now, if you remember Yesterday’s Question of the Day, Yesterday was Columbus day, and I mentioned that it became a federal holiday in 1937.

But it was observed by various states long before that. So, your question was: What was the FIRST state to make Columbus Day an official STATE Holiday, and in what year did that happen? Well, Hunter, from Broomfield, Colorado says that his home state...Colorado...was the first to make Columbus Day a state holiday and that was in 1907.

And, Hunter, that is correct, so thank you for your answer there. And by-the-way, Columbus Day became an official state holiday in Colorado exactly, to the day, 415 years after Columbus’ first arrival to the Americas.

But one hundred years before that, on the 300^th anniversary, New York City threw a big celebration for Columbus.

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A Reflection of Your Future:

The Next thing something seems like a "Big Deal" to you, instead of worrying about having to do it, just look at yourself in the mirror, and just go get it done.

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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