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

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!Mr. Johnson, the principal at Riverside Elementary School came on the intercom and said, “May I have your attention, please? If anyone knows who vandalized the wall in the 4th grade wing, I would appreciate your coming and telling me.”Well, sure enough, somebody had taken a red marker and messed up what had been a beautiful scene painted on the wall. The two boys who did it thought they were doing something funny. They also thought no one was watching. But they were wrong.Some 5th grade girls who stayed late on Thursdays for gymnastics were in the building. One of them saw everything and she did exactly what she should have done. She told her parents about it when she got home. Her dad called Mr. Johnson the next day, and the kids who did it were called in and punished.Mrs. McHenry, the artist who originally painted the scene on the wall was called in to fix the damage. But now the problem was deciding how to pay Mrs. McHenry for fixing the painting. Well, the two boys’ parents would have to do that. So now the boys’ parents were mad at their sons for embarrassing them and for costing them money. The whole school was mad at the boys for messing up the nice wall in the first place, and the boys were mad at themselves because now they had to do extra work to pay back their parents. What a mess!It would have been so much better if the boys had done something HELPFUL instead of something hurtful. They could have been HEROES instead!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...

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!It was a new year and a new school for Sam, and it looked like it might be a pretty good year. But after a couple of weeks, the tormenters came out. Rather than seeing how friendly Sam was and how smart he was; rather than recognizing some of the amazing talents he had, they only noticed that he was overweight, and they started teasing him about that.Then one day, when he had an armful of books, they tripped him in the hallway. Another day, at lunch time, they spit pizza in his face and all over his shirt. Yet another time, they turned out the lights in the boys’ bathroom, and one of them hit him really hard. Sam never saw which one did it. Hurting and bleeding, he made his way to the school nurse.Then the principal saw him. “Who did this,” she asked? Sam didn’t know—just one of the four boys who had been giving him a hard time for weeks now. Reluctantly, he gave her their names.Well, Mrs. Morris, the principal called in the one she knew would be the leader. She knew that every group like that has one leader, and the rest are merely mindless followers. She talked with him—a lot. She talked about HEROES HELPING, not hurting, and she explained how being a HERO would also HELP him to have a wonderful future.Mrs. Morris knew the boy was smart enough to be a leader, but time would tell if he was smart enough to become a leader of HEROES or just continue on the path that he has chosen to this point in his life. It took a few days, but eventually it became clear that he HAD chosen to lead HEROES, and he first started by HELPING others instead of hurting them. He even told Sam he was sorry and began reaching out to be his friend.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

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!It was a sad day around the Robinson house. Their family pet had just died, and Jenny had been crying for hours. When the doorbell rang, she was near the door, so she went to see who was there. It was an older boy from the neighborhood who was friends with Jenny’s brother, Michael. He said, “Is Michael here?”Jenny said, “I’ll get him for you.” Then before Jenny could turn to go get Michael, the boy said, “Whatcha cryin’ about?”She said, “Buster died.” That’s when the boy said, “That ol’ dog?! I could maybe see cryin’ if it was a puppy or somethin’, but that dog was so old, he could hardly walk!” Jenny’s crying became uncontrollable as she ran to her room. Her brother, Michael, had been on his way to the door, and he had heard the whole thing.“What are you,” Michael said to his friend, “some kind of insensitive jerk or something?!” The boy said, “What?” Michael said, “Don’t you realize that my parents got Buster when I was a baby, and that he was older than Jenny? She’s never known life without him, and now he’s gone. I can’t believe you wouldn’t be upset, too, if it happened to you!”Well, the boy thought for a minute, and realized Michael was right. He had a bad habit of putting other people down, especially when he saw they were having a weak moment— something, indeed, he had become known for. The boy apologized to Michael, and asked if he could see Jenny. Michael said, “Now is probably not a good time, later.” Well, later, he did apologize to Jenny and even brought her some flowers to put on Buster’s grave in the back yard. He had already decided to start HELPING others instead of hurting them.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...

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!When Carlos was very young, he wanted to be a cowboy. Not just to ride horses and wear a big hat. He wanted to be like some of the cowboys in the old movies, strong, fast, and hard working but mostly honest and full of integrity. The role models he had in the movies didn’t have a lot of money. They didn’t have a lot of fancy things, but they had friendship. They had honor. And a man’s word was as good as gold. That’s what Carlos wanted to be like.But Carlos was just a small boy. And furthermore, he was the new kid at a new school in a city far away from the town he knew as home. There was another boy in the class, and everybody was afraid of him. He was mean, and he didn’t make very good grades. It wasn’t because he wasn’t as smart as everyone else. He just let his meanness get in the way of learning. So he became jealous of the other kids who did make good grades, and that just made him angrier.One day, when Mrs. Wilson, the teacher was out of the room, the boy got upset and turned over a bookshelf in the classroom. When the teacher came back and saw the scattered books, the boy who had turned over the shelf was the first to speak up. He said that Carlos had done it, and everyone else was too afraid to say otherwise.But just as Carlos was about to be taken to the principal’s office, Brandon who was even smaller than Carlos gave Mrs. Wilson a note that said who really turned over the shelf. Brandon was just as afraid as everyone else, but he found a way to quietly tell the truth so Carlos would not get in trouble for something he didn’t do.Since Carlos was new at the school, Brandon didn’t know him very well at all, but he stood up for what was right, and that certainly made Brandon a 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 a...

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!Christopher’s backpack was getting ragged, and his mom knew it. But even though she had two jobs, there was still never any money left over for new stuff. Then one day she came home from work and said she had gotten a raise in pay. Finally, Christopher and his sister could have new backpacks. Even though he had never complained about his old backpack, Christopher was so happy about getting a new one!But then when he got to school with it, the kid who had teased him all year about his old ragged backpack had just come in with mud on his feet. When he saw Christopher’s new backpack, he put his dirty foot on top of it and rubbed mud on it as hard as he could. Just then, the teacher walked in. “Stop right there, young man,” Mrs. Raley said to the boy. “Why would you mess up Christopher’s brand new backpack when you’ve been teasing him all year about his old one?!” The boy just looked at the floor.“I know why,” said Mrs. Raley. “You have a need to think that you’re better than somebody else. And since your backpack was newer and nicer than Christopher’s, you thought that made you better than him. Now that he has a new backpack, you feel threatened like suddenly he’s better that you.” The boy kind of nodded even though he was still looking at the floor.“Can you see how ridiculous that is?” she asked. “Nobody is better than anybody and even if they were, it certainly wouldn’t be because of a backpack! You need to remember that HEROES HELP other people with kind actions and kind words.” Well, you know, the boy really did begin to understand. He decided that very day to start HELPING others instead of hurting them, and he started by HELPING Christopher clean the mud off of his new backpack.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 a...

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!Michael was in the 6th grade, and his younger brother was a second grader. Every chance Michael got, he and his friends delighted in telling his brother scary stories to frighten him. The more he cried, the more the older boys enjoyed it. Then Michael’s little brother started having nightmares about some of the stories he was being told. That’s when Michael’s mother and father learned what had been going on. They became very upset with Michael and his friends.“What if someone were telling you stories like you’ve been telling your little brother?” asked Michael’s father. “I wouldn’t believe them,” said Michael.“Well, what if you were a second grader? Or better yet, what if I began telling you about something terrifying that was about to happen, and you had no idea that I was just making it up —how would you feel?”Michael and his friends had to stop and think a moment about that. But they still were not quite getting it, so his dad continued. “Creating fear in someone is called terrorism,” he said. “You hear a lot about terrorism and terrorists in the news. Those are people who try to frighten entire nations! But, guys, it is the same thing you’re doing to Michael’s little brother, and you think it’s so funny. But it’s really not funny at all!”Well, the boys understood clearly now. They not only apologized to Michael’s mom and dad but to his little brother as well. They continued to tell stories, but now their stories were just funny and even HELPFUL as they tried to put a smile on little brother’s face instead of making him cry. They were becoming HELPFUL instead of hurtful. They were becoming HEROES.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 p...

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!Mr. Delaney was Bay Chandler’s favorite teacher ever! He was the kind of teacher who was always so excited about what he was teaching that his students couldn’t HELP being excited about coming to class and learning. Bay, whose real name was Bailey, had heard Mr. Delaney say repeatedly that he wanted everyone in his class to become a HERO. He always said, “HEROES HELP people, They don’t hurt people. We’re all about HEROES in this class, and we just don’t even allow hurtful attitudes in here!”But then one day he said, “HEROES HELP THEMSELVES.” Bay was confused. She didn’t know what that meant so after class, she asked him. Mr. Delaney said, “Not today, Miss Bailey. Tomorrow! We’ll talk about it tomorrow,” he said.Well, the next day, Mr. Delaney did explain. He said being a kid is just practice time for being a grown-up, and now is the time to start HELPING what he called “the future you.” He said that many adults out there are happy and successful while others are unhappy and unsuccessful.“One good reason for that,” he said, “is that some worked hard and made good choices when they were kids, and some did not. Some were HELPFUL to themselves, and some were HURTFUL to themselves.”Well, Bay decided right then that very day to start learning the difference between good choices and bad choices. Bay had already been a HERO to others. Today, however, she became a HERO to herself!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

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!Thirty five years ago, there was a boy named Lewis Thomason, and one day, Lewis’ class was on a field trip to the symphony house. The orchestra was not playing at the time, but some of the musicians were there. Lewis absolutely loved everything about the symphony, but some of the other boys in the class did not. One of those boys who had always given Lewis a hard time, was just waiting for a chance to make Lewis’ day miserable. At lunchtime, Lewis had a sandwich, some fruit, and a grape soda in a can. When Lewis wasn’t looking, the boy quickly shook up the grape soda, so that when Lewis opened it, it spewed everywhere. The boy just quietly laughed to himself and nobody saw him do it. The rest of the year, he was Lewis’ worst nightmare, and he was just shallow-minded enough to be proud of himself for that.Well, as it sometimes happens, that boy went on giving Lewis Thomason a difficult time, and then someone else, and someone else, all the way through school until he finally dropped out. He got a job, then another job, and another job, and another, and another, and another. He was always picking on someone and getting fired.One day he went just a little too far and found himself in jail on some pretty serious charges. In all those years of getting in trouble, he had just never learned his lesson until today when the bailiff in the courtroom said, “All rise, for the Honorable Judge Lewis Thomason.”Just think, if that boy while he was still young, had chosen to HELP others instead of hurting them—if he had chosen to become a HERO—today, he could be called “honorable,” too, just like Lewis.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 p

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!Darius was sitting quietly at his desk, working on the math sheet that Mrs. Simpson had assigned to her class. It was a cold day, and even the classroom was not as warm as it usually was, so Darius was wearing his leather jacket. The boy behind Darius thought it would be funny to write something very unkind on the back of Darius’ jacket. Very carefully, he began sneaking one part of a letter at a time, so Darius wouldn’t feel what he was doing. The boy had a friend who sat at the desk beside him, and they both quietly snickered.Well, a boy named Robbie who sat all the way in the back of the room and over to the side saw what was going on, but he didn’t laugh at all. Instead he quietly raised his hand to get Mrs. Simpson’s attention and gestured toward the boy behind Darius. Mrs. Simpson caught him red-handed. The boy with the marker was sent directly to the office, and Mrs. Simpson told Darius how sorry she was that had happened. His coat was ruined. She wrote a note for him to take home saying that she saw what had happened.Well, Darius’ dad called the other boy’s parents who did not think their son was being very funny either. They bought Darius a brand new jacket, and then made their son work—a lot—to pay for it. He was also grounded for a very long time. Now, he didn’t think it was funny anymore, either.Just think. If he had made up his mind to be the kind of person who HELPS others instead of one who hurts others, he would have saved himself quite a lot of trouble. And he still could, if he just would.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...

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!Kara and Trisha were carrying their trays in the cafeteria when suddenly Trisha tripped and down went her tray. The whole thing all over the floor right in front of her. She was mortified! But to make matters worse, some kids at the table right behind her started laughing. When she turned around to say something, she accidentally placed her right foot in the middle of the mashed potatoes, and she went down, too! How embarrassing! And how sad that the kids who were laughing did not even offer to HELP her up. Instead, they just laughed louder and began calling her names.But Kara didn’t laugh. She saw how embarrassed Trisha was, and she knew it could happen to anyone. She and a boy who was nearby HELPED Trisha up from the floor while the kids at the end of the table were still laughing. By this time, though, their name calling had become more sophisticated as they tried to outdo each other with their comments.That’s when Kara calmly said to them, “Okay, which one of you has never fallen down before?” No one raised a hand or said, “Me” or anything. They had all fallen down at one time or another. Then Kara said, “How would you have felt if someone had laughed at you and called you names when you slipped?” Again, no answers. Kara finished with a challenge. She said, “Why don’t you use your brain power to think of ways to HELP someone else instead of hurting them with all the clever names you think up?” Well, you know, right then, one of the girls and two of the boys apologized, and soon the others also decided it was about time to start HELPING people instead of hurting them.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 p...

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!Every Monday, Mr. Delaney started his class with a discussion period to let his students have an opportunity to say what’s on their minds. Last Monday, Jennifer raised her hand. When Mr. Delaney respectfully called on her, she said she was sad and a little scared for one of her friends who was being bullied on the computer. Somebody (and nobody knew who it was) had posted some horrible things about her friend—things that were totally untrue. And other kids were adding bad comments to it. Then Jennifer said, “What can I do to HELP my friend?”Mr. Delaney thanked Jennifer for her comments and her question. He thanked her for caring about her friend. But he obviously looked sad and even a little angry as he said, “Computers are wonderful tools. It is so unfortunate that there are people who abuse computers and abuse the internet. Jennifer, you need to tell your friend not to respond at all to whoever is posting those messages. Instead, she needs to report what is happening first of all to her parents, and then she needs to tell her teacher, counselor, or principal, and the school security officer.Cyber-bullies think they can’t be caught, but that’s simply not true. They CAN be caught, and ARE caught every day. When they are caught, the punishment is severe, because what they are doing is called “Slander” and “Libel.” Slander and libel are against the law, as are certain threats. And class, you know I am here to HELP you, but if I ever learn of your participation in cyber-bullying, I WILL turn you in to the authorities.” But Mr. Delaney didn’t leave it there, he went on to say, “It is HEROES, not bullies, who make the world a better place. Now is the time,” he said, “for you to make your choice, and the choice is really an easy one. It’s simply a matter of choosing to HELP others—instead of choosing to hurt.” And the class enthusiastically agreed with him!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...

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!Rex was a good student in school—not the outstanding student he could have been, but a good student. He was picked on a lot, and didn’t have many friends—no best friends. Sometimes he was even afraid to go to school, and that certainly was not good for his grades. He was very close to his family but not really close to anybody else.Rex liked organizing things and collecting things, but he really didn’t know anybody else who had those same interests. He was not very good at football, basketball, baseball, track, or any other sports, although he would have put more effort into them if he had not been laughed at so much when he tried. He never understood why sports was the most important thing in life for so many people. So, he learned how to just keep to himself and work on the things he was good at.He finally learned that he was his own best friend, and that he was going to become all he could be regardless of what the others thought. His grades began to skyrocket! He finished high school at the top of his class, went to college, still at the top of his class, and eventually earned five degrees!Today, he is vice president of a large worldwide company and he has many people working for him—people who enjoy working for him, because he treats them the way he wishes he had been treated in school.He could have chosen to hurt others the way he was hurt. But instead, he chose to become a HERO, not only to those around him, but also to himself!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...

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!Shawn was on his way to class one morning when, out of nowhere, a sixth grader came running down the hall like he was sprinting the hundred meter dash. WHAM! He runs right into Shawn. Shawn went down, and his backpack went sliding across the floor nearly tripping someone else. The kid running said “Sorry,” and took off again only to run into Mr. Turner who had just stepped out of his office.Mr. Turner checked on Shawn who was just a little shaken, and then he turned his attention to the boy runner. “Now you see what happens when you break the rules, don’t you? You know we have a rule that says, “No running in the halls.” That’s when the boy told Mr. Turner in an angry voice, “I said I was sorry!”“You can’t go around breaking rules and think it’s okay, if you just say you’re sorry,” said the principal. “Rules are there to protect our students—ALL of our students, including you! You always have a choice—to HELP others (AND yourself) or to HURT others (and yourself). And people who HELP others are known as what?”“HEROES(?),” the boy said, more like it was a question than an answer. But from that moment, he realized he had some thinking to do. Eventually he realized Mr. Turner was right. And that’s when he decided to start ALWAYS HELPING people instead of hurting them. He started following the rules, too!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...

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!Amanda didn’t seem to have any friends, but she was a smart girl who made excellent grades in school. When the teacher would call on her, she always knew the right answer. In fact, she had no patience for anyone who did not know the right answer, especially Melody, who was one of the most popular girls in the school but who rarely knew the right answer. One day, when Melody’s answer was not even close to being correct, Amanda raised her hand, and smugly gave the answer Mrs. Williams was looking for. Then she turned around and laughed at Melody. Well, that was like a declaration of war to Melody. She began calling Amanda names and playing tricks on Amanda to embarrass her. And Amanda did the same thing. Both girls could hardly wait to get to school every day and figure out what mean things they could do to each other!Finally, Mrs. Williams said, “After school today—both of you.” And, after school that day, Mrs. Williams talked with them. She said, “Girls, as your teacher, I know that you are just about equally intelligent. Amanda, you have excellent study skills. But,” Mrs. Williams continued, “you need better social skills. Melody, you have excellent social skills, and you need better study skills. So, here’s what we’re going to do. I’ve already talked with your parents, and you’re going to stay after school for thirty minutes every day and teach each other! Amanda, you will teach Melody how to study. Melody, you will teach Amanda how to make friends.” And that’s when the most amazing thing began to happen! At first, the girls hated the idea of having to spend time together. But then, they did begin to teach each other. Yes, those two girls, who were so intent on hurting each other, began to genuinely look forward to HELPING each other. Those two girls who started out as each other’s worst nightmare became each other’s HERO, and they also became each other’s best friend.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...

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!Nancy loved going to school, and she made really good grades. Her mother taught first grade at the same school, and some of Nancy’s friends had even been in her mom’s class three years before. They thought she was a really great teacher then, but something had gone wrong this year that Nancy just could not understand. They started saying things like Nancy made good grades because her mom was a teacher. They said that Nancy never got in trouble because her mom worked at the school.One day, Nancy walked by a few girls on the playground, and one of them started saying, “Teacher’s kid, teacher’s kid,” and then they all joined in.One of the teachers on duty saw the whole thing. She said to the girls, “I believe you owe Nancy an apology. The fact that her mother is a teacher at our school does not mean that Nancy does not have to work just as hard as you do and follow the same rules that you do. Her mother HELPED some of you learn to read in the first grade. And now you’re being mean to Nancyjust because Nancy is her daughter?!”By this time, the girls were feeling very ashamed. One of them had even begun to cry. Then she gave Nancy a hug and told her how sorry she was. The other girls also apologized. They had heard repeatedly about how some people hurt others, and that HEROES HELP others, but today it all started to make sense. Today they decided to become HEROES instead.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...

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!One day, Mrs. Green’s class was reviewing things they had learned that semester. Mrs. Green was holding up some giant flash cards with math problems on them, going around the room showing each student a card. One at a time, they were supposed to answer the problem as quickly as they could. Tevin got a little nervous when he knew it was his turn. 12x = 48 the card said. Tevin knew immediately the answer was 4, but he blurted out, “12.” He felt bad about saying the wrong answer, but he felt much worse when the boy who sits across from him started laughing.“Okay,” said Mrs. Green. “I see it’s time now to do some reviewing about HELPING and hurting.” She turned to the boy who laughed at Tevin and said, “You were acting like anything but a HERO just now. Did you know that?”“No way,” the boy said. Mrs. Green asked the boy if it would hurt his feelings for someone to laugh at him when he made a mistake. “Yes ma’am,” he said, as he just looked at the floor. Then Mrs. Green said, “Would anyone else have their feelings hurt if someone laughed at you?” Hands went up all over the room.“And that’s NOT what HEROES do.” said Mrs. Green, “But what DO HEROES do?” she asked. “They HELP people,” said the class, and one girl said, “They make people smile!” Well, when the boy who had laughed at Tevin heard that, he began to realize that he really was being hurtful instead of HELPFUL. He told Mrs. Green and Tevin that he was sorry, and beginning that very day, he decided to always be a HERO and never again hurt others with his words or actions!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...

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!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...

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!Wyndel was a good student in the 5th grade. But he was quiet, and a lot of the kids did not know very much about him—like the fact that Wyndel was an amazing horseback rider! There was another boy in Wyndel’s class who was a great football player. The only problem was that the football player also had no problem putting others down when he chose to. He would tease Wyndel, laugh at him, and call him names all because Wyndel was not very good at football—until one day when Mrs. Rouseau saw what was going on.She took Wyndel and the other boy aside, and then said to the football player, “When you can ride a horse as well as Wyndel can ride a horse, THEN we’ll talk about your right to criticize him about not being a good football player!”Well, what Mrs. Rouseau knew was this. She knew that one of Wyndel’s very special talents was horseback riding just like one of the other boy’s special talents was being a great football player. She knew that every person in her class and everybody in the school each had a very special talent or a group of very special talents that was different from everybody else’s. Some of the students knew what their talents were, but most had not even discovered them yet.She explained to the two boys that no one has the right to put someone else down when they can’t do something as well as you can, because there is something, even if they don’t know what it is yet, that they can do better than you! Just think, if the football player had decided to HELP Wyndel learn more about football instead of putting him down for not being able to play, he could have been a HERO instead.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

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!It was recess time, and Amy and Carley enjoyed picking some little wild flowers to make a bouquet for their teacher. That’s when they noticed a mother bird had built a nest to lay her eggs. When the girls ran to tell Mrs. Brown, she said they probably shouldn’t play very near that tree for a while. They could frighten the mother bird, and she might fly off. Without her there to keep her eggs warm, they would never hatch. “Yes ma’am,” they said as they ran to the swing which was close enough to watch the nest without bothering the mother bird.Amy and Carley couldn’t wait until recess each day so they could swing and watch the mother bird sitting on her eggs. But one day, as the girls were swinging, they saw a boy from another class who had also discovered the bird’s nest. He had a stick in his hand, and he was jabbing at the nest. The mother bird had flown to a much higher branch, she and was chirping very loudly at the boy. Amy started yelling at the boy and begging him to stop while Carley ran for Mrs. Brown. The boy laughed at Amy. “It’s just some old birds,” he said. Well, immediately, Mrs. Brown was there and sternly told the boy to stop! She reminded him about how she always tells her students about being kind to other people, but this time she said, “And that applies to animals, too!”Well, the boy had seen his older brother being mean to animals, so he thought it was okay. But now, he began to realize that it really is wrong to hurt animals just like it is wrong to hurt people. And so starting that very day, he decided never again to hurt people or animals. Instead, he decided to HELP. He chose that day to become a HERO instead!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

Please visit us at www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to www.TheCharacterNetwork.org to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention.Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere**************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!Toward the end of every school year, after all the testing is done, Mr. Delaney likes having discussions with his class. And of course, one of his favorite subjects is that of HELPING others instead of hurting them. “Why should we all be HELPERS,” he asked his class. One girl said, “It makes the world a better place.”Another student said, “It makes life easier for someone having a hard time.” Someone else said, “It makes everybody friendlier.”But there was a new kid in the class who had just moved from another city. He spent a lot of his time picking on other kids. He said, “Life is not always JUST about HELPING, you know.”“Really” said Mr. Delaney, “Then what is it all about?” The boy thought—for longer than just a moment and finally said proudly, “It’s about having fun!” Mr. Delaney started to comment, but then a boy named Bryan, raised his hand. “I think I can handle this one,” he said, and Mr. Delaney nodded. Bryan said, “But just as soon as the fun is gone, all you have left is the memory of having fun, and if your fun was causing someone else to be hurt, what good does that do? When you HELP other people, though, then the person HELPING creates a good memory and provides a good memory for the person being HELPED. It really is all about HELPING.”Then Mr. Delaney added, “And you can certainly have fun while you’re HELPING, too, making a good memory for everyone.” The boy hadn’t really thought about it like that before, but he was beginning to see that choosing to HELP others was a lot better than choosing to hurt them. He was pretty much deciding right then to start becoming a HERO instead.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...