National "Get Smart About Credit Day," and The Hundred Dollar Bill

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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!

Good morning kids and

parents! It’s a THURSDAY...the 21^st

day of October. And, today is National

Get Smart About Credit Day. It’s a national campaign where volunteer bankers help counsel young people on responsible credit habits. We talked a few days ago about SAVING money. Well learning about credit and how to handle it responsibly is certainly an important part of money management. Now, you may be too young to have a line of credit with a bank, but you are CERTAINLY not too young to learn about how credit works and how to be responsible with it. So, happy National Get Smart About Credit Day.

And along those lines of thinking, coming up is a story about a moment of honesty where money is concerned. I hope you like it. It’s called simply, “The Hundred Dollar Bill,” and it starts right now!

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“Oh my goodness, look! That lady just dropped a hundred dollar bill, and she doesn’t even know it!” Dana and her two friends were at the convenience store when they saw the whole thing. One of Dana’s friends picked it up, and the other friend said, “Now we can buy anything we want!”

“No,” said Dana, “it’s not right.”

“What’s wrong with you,” said one of the other girls?

“Do you remember when Mrs. McBride talked to us about seeing ourselves in the future, all grown up and everything?” Mrs. McBride was the school principal, and she was always talking about personal vision. “What kind of person do you want to be when you’re an adult? Do you want to be a person who is respected, who has integrity, who is responsible?” She would say that, and a lot more, too. Dana told her friends, “When I’m 30, I don’t want to look back and realize that I was a thief.”

Well, the other girls didn’t really have a response for that—not anything that sounded intelligent, anyway. “Besides,” Dana said, “the lady probably worked hard for that money, and I know I would be hurt if someone took money from me, even if I thought I just lost it.

So, the other two girls now had a choice. They could keep the money, they could drop it back on the floor where they found it, OR they could actually HELP the lady by returning it to her. It only took a couple of seconds for them to realize what the best choice was, and that’s what they did.

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Yeah, The Hundred Dollar Bill! So...If you were with your friends who wanted to take money that someone else had dropped, would you have the courage to tell your friends to do the right thing and return it? In the story, Dana said that when she’s 30, she doesn’t want to look back and realize she was a thief. What kinds of things do you want to remember about your younger self when you are 30? And finally, what kinds of things could you be doing NOW to help ensure your reputation is a good one when you’re an adult? Just some questions to ask yourself on this Thursday morning.

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Well, just ahead, another visit with my Old Irish Pappy... Also, the Question of the Day, and A Reflection of Your Future still to come on this Thursday edition of TCN Mornings..

Right now, though, I wanted to talk about my book if I may. 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!!

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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.

Yes!! Look ahead to when you’re an adult. Do you want to be trusted and respected? This ties in nicely with what I was talking about just a couple of minutes ago, doesn’t it?! And how about now? Do you want to be trusted and respected NOW? If you want people to trust you, you’ve got to 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, didn’t he?

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Alright, so here we go on this Thursday morning with the QUESTION OF THE DAY!

In keeping with Today’s National Get Smart About Credit Day, here is the question...and it has two parts. What is INTEREST, and why is it important to qualify for the lowest interest rate you possibly can? What is INTEREST, and why is it important to qualify for the lowest interest rate you possibly can?

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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Okay...SO...about yesterday’s question: You remember that yesterday would have been Mickey Mantle’s birthday. And of course, Mickey Mantle was one of the greatest major league baseball players of all time. He retired from baseball 53 years ago, but he STILL holds at least one all time record in baseball. So, your question was to name at least one record that Mickey Mantle set that has never been broken.

Well, Nicholas from Maryville, Tennessee said that Mickey Mantle still holds the record for the number of home runs in a World Series. In the 1964 World Series, Mickey Mantle hit 18 home runs. And in all these years, that record has never been broken. And Nicholas, that’s right! So, thank you for that answer.

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

Reflection:

Closer.

Dear Parents,

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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.”

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