Real Life Super Heroes are … Well, REAL!

There are 100’s, maybe thousands of REAL LIFE Super Heroes.

A recent documentary  revealed to the world just a handful of these people; they found hundreds.

More are pouring onto the streets daily. Watch this:
Real Life Super Heroes

These are good people. People who want to inspire the world to be better.



I am proud of my son wanting to be a Super Hero.

I want to develop in him all the traits that go hand in hand with being a Super Hero:

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  • Courage
  • Honesty
  • Willingness to do something about it
  • Never seeking to be liked or admired; doing something because you know it is right.
  • The ability to tell right from wrong
  • Moral
  • Ethical
  • Imaginative

 

#8 Grooming the Super Powers of a child

Are you trying to get your kid through a morning or evening routine that appears to be simple enough to you, but overwhelming to your child?

At times, a kid’s attention seems to wonder too far or be too fixed on one thing. Either way, he is not focusing on what you need him to do.

Trying to find that focus point can be a hair pulling experience.

I knew to grow any worthwhile skill it would take some attention focused on that skill until it becomes part of you.

I put together a simple morning and evening checklist of basic actions. I have been piloting them for the past few weeks: So far, so good!

He understands what he needs to do and can re-focus on the task at hand by re-reading the checklist point he needs to finish.

I have implemented his pay (allowence) system based on # of Completed Checklists he turns in. We count it up at the end of the week and that is how he makes some of his money. That gives him an nice incentive.

Hopefully, this idea works for you!  I put cut clip-art next to each action to make it fun.  You can download your own clip-art.

I laminated the master copies for his chore notice board in the kitchen and made black & white copies for him to mark off daily.

           Hunter’s MORNING Checklist

Sunday_______  Monday______ Tuesday______  Wed_______ Thursday_______  Friday_______  Saturday______

1.    Make your Bed and turn off sound ________________

2.     Get dressed____________________________________

3.      Brush and floss your teeth ________________________

4.      Brush your hair – be creative (:-D  __________________

5.        Feed fish     ____________________________________

6.   Feed cats _______________________________________

7.     Feed turtles  __________________________________

8.       Eat a good breakfast______   Put dishes on counter_______

9.     Take vitamins______________________________

Hunter’s NIGHT Checklist

Sunday_______  Monday______ Tuesday______  Wed_______ Thursday_______  Friday_______  Saturday______

1.   Exercise or attend exercise class if scheduled________

2.   Finish any homework.  ________

3.   Clean up playroom.       _________  

4.   Clean up your bedroom if you made a mess. ______

5.   Take your minerals & other vitamins/Cal Mag. _______

6.   Brush and floss your teeth. _______

7.   Take a bath. ________

8.   Read  a story. _________

Home School Inspiration - Without a Dreamer, There is no Dream

Individual-by-individual, each person in his or her uniqueness has the power. youthmuse.com

The power to foresee a more benevolent world. When we think about an area of life we want improved, when we visualize it as we wish it to be, we start the wheels turning.

First it is a dream, a bright idea; next it requires the application of some elbow grease; then it grows by tiny steps or giant steps, but always carefully tended; in due time it reaches full stature1; finally, the dream, the bright idea, is a reality!

Envisioning a better world, simply envisioning it, must be a first step in making it happen.

What is your dream?

Share dreams, take action, a brighter world awaits! 

These are words were written by my good friend Carlynn McCormick who offers an incredible Home School on-line service. You can reach her at: president@appliedscholasticsonline.com

Blog #6-There is only one of you

Blog #6-There is only one of you
 >"There is only one me. There is only one you. 

The words I say, the words I write belong to me; as do my desires, ambitions and talents, as do my shortcomings and frustrations. Your words, desires, ambitions, talents, shortcomings and frustrations, belong to you.

What I do in life; where I go; what I accomplish or fail to accomplish rests on my shoulders, and my shoulders alone.  What you do; where you go; what you accomplish or fail to accomplish rests on no other shoulders than yours.

I have the ability to make things better or make them worse; only I am responsible for the choices I make.  You can soar with your dreams or bow to the beckoning of evil; only you are responsible for the choices you make.

When the identity of my body flickers and the last ember dies, I must answer only to myself.  And when your lifetime is over, you must answer to none other than you."
A good friend Carlynn McCormick wrote this and it is so applicable to our message on http://www.youthmuse.com/

Blog #5 – What possible Super Power skill can improve while watching TV?

Blog #5 – What possible Super Power skill can improve while watching TV?
I asked my son what possible Power Skills was he working on improving while watching TV? www.youthmuse.com
He didn’t miss a beat. He turned to me and said – “My power to spot very small things quickly Mom.”
Hum… this kid is smarter that I originally thought. I need either to re-think my line of questioning or just roll with it.
Thoughts?

We all WANT cool super powers! What are yours?

Openly or secretly, we all want cool super powers. Each of us is unique, with our own endowment of powers. Life appears to be the discovery and utilization of these powers to accomplish goals, both small and large. http://www.youthmuse.com/

But how in the world am I supposed to translate that to a grieving 5-year-old demanding to know what went wrong at birth that he can not fly or run at the speed of light?? I went round and round on this dilemma.

I mean, there are powers (talents, abilities), and then there are SUPER POWERS! A common run-of-the-mill computer programmer has talents and abilities, but he isn’t Bill Gates. (No dig intended to computer programmers – it’s WAY beyond me and I admire them all).

And that’s when the proverbial light bulb turned on.

I asked my son Hunter if he knew of anyone else who was exactly like him. He couldn’t name anyone. That meant that he was unique. That meant we are all unique.

There was now a differentiation between him and other kids. A good start.

I had him list out everything HE was good at: cooking, soccer, making jokes, etc.

I had him list out those things he loved to do: jump on the trampoline, play with his cats and turtles, play his Wii, math, etc.

When he would say something too generic like, “play video games,” I’d have him tell me what it was ABOUT playing video games he liked? What was HE (not the character) doing while playing video games that he was good at?

We then discussed what abilities one needed to perform each of these tasks, translating the words into his level of understanding:

• Creativity
• Imagination
• Persistence
• Physical strength
• Enough intelligence and observational skill to see similarities and differences in common things so you can translate them into jokes or solve math problems
• Listening skills
• Knowing when you understand something and when you don’t really understand
• Compassion
• Etc.

These are his talents and abilities - his “powers.” And somewhere herein lies his Super Power. The task is to identify and develop these abilities to whatever degree his power-endowment allows. http://www.youthmuse.com/

Super Power Inspiration

I never saw the wall coming until I hit it face first.  And boy, did it hurt!

It started out innocently enough. Having grown up with female cousins and a sister, I had no idea how difficult it was to creatively outfit a boy. I was thrilled when my son told me he wanted to wear some cool comic book character’s clothes. It gave me wardrobe direction!

He was inspired by an over abundance of Super Heroes in the books, TV, video games, and toys all around him - incredible boys and men doing incredible deeds with amazing super powers!

But I never saw it coming.

When my son was 5 years old, he suddenly started sobbing in the back seat of the car. Alarmed, I looked for signs of physical trauma. But the problem wasn’t physical.

He looked at me with those huge blue, tearful eyes and begged to know, “Why don’t I have any super powers?” - as if the super power fairy had passed him over when he was born.

He was pleading with me. He couldn’t walk through walls. He couldn’t fly or become invisible. He thought something was wrong with him. This was a sincere question.

Ouch! I thought I’d done a good job explaining the difference between entertainment and reality. I had even shown him photos of movie sets, actors getting ready for roles and such. Obviously, there must be too much entertainment implanted into reality! Or so I thought.

My initial gut reaction was to ban him from participation with in these “bad influences” that were giving him false images of a super planet future. Moving into a bubble or the back woods of Montana was not going to happen.

Ponder this long enough and you realize that imagination is a good thing! I, for one, don’t want to squelch it. Kids and adults alike need inspiration and dreams. That’s how we go from good to great.

The question is, “How do we take the Super Hero inspiration around us and translate that into a discovery of our own inherent and unique abilities?”