Happy Chocolate Milk Day + Think Before You Act + Lisa's Looooooong Day....

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 234 - Monday, September 27, 2021

Hey kids, welcome into your Monday, the 27th day of September, and today is National Chocolate Milk Day! Yep, National Chocolate Milk Day!! You may not believe this, but apparently, chocolate milk is a magical and even sacred drink!

The earliest known use of chocolate was by the Olmec civilization. The Olmec were the first major civilization in what is now Mexico. These people are said to have been drinking chocolate milk over 3500 YEARS ago. And it seems that drinking chocolate milk was not only something they enjoyed, but it was also considered a status symbol for them!

Later, the Myans were known to drink chocolate milk. And chocolate drinks were thought to have powers of medicine! Yeah, I’m not kidding! Eventually, chocolate and chocolate milk made its way to Europe during the 1600s, and still it was thought to not only be a tasty treat, but also have healing powers! And all this to say, that chocolate and chocolate milk that we enjoy and take pretty much for granted, has an amazingly interesting history! So, happy chocolate milk day to you!

AND, now, the upcoming story in fact DOES include chocolate milk, but unfortunately NOT necessarily in a good way! It’s called Lisa’s Long Day, and it starts right now!

Lisa’s Long Day

So, what might be something that has happened to you that started your day off all wrong? How did Lisa’s mother describe someone who has a hurtful attitude? What other choice does a hurtful person have? Have YOU ever been hurtful to someone else, and if so, what other CHOICES do YOU have for attitude and behavior? Just some things to think about on this Monday morning.

Okay... 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!

Alrighty then, coming up is another quote from My Old Irish Pappy, also the Question of the day, AND, a Reflection of YOUR Future. It’s all still right in front of us here on TCN Mornings. So stick around!

And now...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...

Yes! 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?

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

Okay, AND Now... It's time for the QUESTION OF THE DAY! So, let’s make this question short and sweet, shall we? We talked earlier about chocolate milk on this National Chocolate Milk Day, and we know where MILK comes from... We DO know where milk comes from, right? And we know that chocolate that we use to make chocolate milk is made with Cocoa and sugar, but here’s your question: Where does Cocoa come from? Where does Cocoa come from?

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].

If you remember last Friday’s Question of the Day, you’ll remember that Friday was National Hug a Vegetarian Day. So you question was about that. It was: What is the difference between a vegetarian and a vegan?

Well, Nicholas from Duncanville, Texas, said a vegetarian is someone who chooses to not eat meat of any kind. And he says a vegan is like a vegetarian, but goes further to not eat ANY product that comes from any kind of animal. No eggs, or cheese, or milk, or ANYTHING that comes from animals. Vegans choose to eat ONLY plant based foods. And Nicholas, that’s right...so thank you for your answer there.

Alright...Stick around...as usual, one more quick segment ahead, but as for me, I will see 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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