The Burger Battle Story, and, Always THINK Before you ACT, Y'Think?

The Character Network Presents: Heroes Help! TCN Mornings

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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 244 - Monday, October 11, 2021

Hey kids, welcome into your Monday, the 11th day of October. Today, of course it Columbus Day. It’s a national holiday—all banks and government offices are closed today, along with other businesses, too, and some schools. Columbus Day is always on the second Monday in October every year in the United States. And observance of Columbus Day signifies the day Columbus arrived in the Americas on October 12, 1492.

For a long time, Christopher Columbus was given credit for actually discovering North America. However, long before Columbus was born, Leif Erikson landed on here. Christopher Columbus WAS and explorer, though, and he did sail across the Atlantic, more than once. In fact, he made four voyages across the Atlantic.

But on his first voyage, he was looking for Asia. He and his crew landed their three ships somewhere near the modern-day Bahamas. While he may not have discovered an already populated continent, he did create an interest in exploring and colonizing North America.

By the way, it was in 1937, that Columbus Day became a federal holiday in the United States. And it was in 1971 that it came to be observed on the second MONDAY in October instead of actually on October 12th.

Okay! Well let’s get going with today’s Monday edition or TCN Mornings. It wasn’t on Columbus Day, and it wasn’t even on a Monday, but on a Saturday that the story coming up happened. It’s called The Burger Battle, and it starts right now.

The Burger Battle Story

Jamie and his dad were standing in line waiting for the lady at the register to take their order. It was something they had always done—a father and son day one Saturday a month, rain or shine. The man in front of them had just ordered two grilled chicken sandwiches and two orders of fries. When the lady repeated back the order, the man became angry, and said, “ONE order of fries, ONE order of fries, don’t you listen?!” And then he said some other things that brought tears to her eyes. “Dad, that man said two orders of fries, I heard him,” said Jamie. “I know, I heard him, too.”

“But, Dad, he’s treating her horribly!” “OH yeah,” said his dad. “Yes he is.” Well, it was now their turn to order lunch, and Jamie’s dad, being as friendly as he possibly could, placed the order. And then he said to the lady, “I would like to apologize for that man who was just here, since he doesn’t seem to be willing to apologize for himself.” The lady smiled through the tears that were still in her eyes, and thanked him. “Look,” he said, “I have a couple of free passes to the movie theater—maybe you can use one and invite a friend to go along.” The lady’s tears came back a little, and then she said quietly, “Thanks, you’re very kind.”

Jamie knew that he and his dad had planned to use those movie passes that evening, but you know what? He didn’t mind at all. What he had seen that day meant more to him than any movie could! Jamie always thought he wanted to grow up to be just like his dad—now, he knew it, without a doubt!

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The Burger Battle Story

So, I don’t know about you, but I think it was pretty cool for Jamie and his dad to have a father and son day every month! But, what about the man who was barking his rudeness at the lady taking his order... Do you think maybe he had acted like that since he was a child? Do you think that a child who is hurtful would be much better prepared to be a happy adult if he or she learned at a young age to be HELPFUL and courteous to others INSTEAD of hurtful? And, finally, about Jamie’s dad...do you think it would be accurate to call him a hero? Just some thinking points on this Monday morning...

Okay, coming up quote from My old Irish Pappy, also the Question of the day, and a Reflection of YOUR Future. All still to come on this Monday edition of TCN Mornings.

So you’ve been hearing me talk about listening every weekday morning to TCN Mornings, and that you can simply go to TCNmornings.com and play each daily episode from there OR you can download the TCN Mornings Mobile app by simply searching TCN Mornings in Google Play or the Apple App store, and that is just how simple it is! Well NOW... you can also simply search TCN Mornings WHEREVER you get your podcasts! Yeah, whether it’s Spotify, or Apple Podcasts, or GOOGLE Podcasts, or PocketCast, or Breaker, or Radio Public, or WHEREVER! TCN Mornings. Now, it’s simply EVERYWHERE!

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Well... My Old Irish Pappy. And the things I learned when I was your age about life and how to live it better. There's not a day that goes by that I don't remember something my Pappy taught me. I can just hear him now with the advice he would give...

Yeah! Always THINK before you act. Always consider the consequences of your choices all day long, every day! Choices DO have consequences! Good advice, don't you think?

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Alright....Combining the ART of Storytelling with the Science of Spaced Repetition. That's us: TCN Mornings right here on The CHARACTER Network.

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And Now... It's time for the QUESTION OF THE DAY! Today is 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 is what was the FIRST state to observe Columbus Day and in what year did it become an official holiday for THAT state? What was the FIRST state to observe Columbus Day and in what year did it become an official holiday for THAT state?

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, now about last Friday’s Question of the Day. You may remember that Friday we didn’t HAVE a question of the day. No, we didn’t. And I was actually looking forward to saying something like “Well, we have no answer to the question we didn’t have!” You know, because that would just be fun to say... But NO! I can’t say that... Because Lucas from College Park, Georgia came up with an answer, and so that it would match, he came up with a question, TOO! Friday was National Fluffernutter day, and a fluffernutter is a sandwich made with peanut butter and marshmallow creme usually served on white bread. So, Lucas’ question was how are marshmallows made! Asked and answered, he says: Marshmallows contain sugar, corn syrup, and gelatin, and some air. He says the sugary liquid mixture is whipped so that air is trapped in the mixture and stays trapped because of the gelatin. And there ya go...the answer to the question we didn’t have! So, thank you, Lucas for that extra effort there!

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Hey, stick around...as usual, one more quick segment ahead, but as for me,...I’;; be seeing you tomorrow for the Tuesday 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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