Christopher's New Backpack

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

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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... 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 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.

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