100+ Life Lessons...

...That YOU Can Teach Your Children, Grandchildren, and Kids of All Ages!

Ever wonder why today’s schools don’t teach the valuable things you learned?  HINT: Maybe they’re not allowed -- or maybe they just don’t know how.  How about all that revisionist history; wouldn’t you like to set the story straight?  How about all the other things today’s kids are missing out on that turn out to be important after all?

Well, now you can fix that.  We’ve put together more than 100 Life Lessons – way more and still adding -- that you can use to augment (and sometimes correct) what today’s schoolchildren are learning incorrectly, or worse yet, missing altogether.  These Life Lessons are structured to be presented and discussed with them in simple, 15-minute segments.  They include topics that today’s schools just can’t or won’t touch:  like God, and Love, and Hope, and Faith, and Prayer.  And Wisdom, Trust, Courage, Character, and Integrity.  And History, our Founders and Framers, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Civics, and Citizenship.  And Mercy, Justice, Kindness, Strength, Grace, Understanding, and Generosity.  And many, many more. 

All it takes on your part is to be willing and able to simply talk with the kids, sharing your life learnings and helping them understand the important stuff that isn’t always in today’s textbooks.

It’s your choice:  You can make birdies on the golf course – or you can also make a difference in a kid’s knowledge of real history, and help shape his or her future.  You can teach quilting – or you can also teach truth to a generation that desperately needs to know the truth.  You can know, and live, the difference between right and wrong – or you can also let your grandchildren (and others’ grandchildren) in on why it’s important that they do the same.  They sure don’t get it in today’s “education” environment.

As I said, it’s your choice.  Join me?

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Here’s a sample 45 minute segment: three (3) topics, each 15 minutes in length, with maybe 5 minutes of your description of the topic, and 10 minutes of Q & A and discussion.  To keep the transition from topic to topic easy, we’ve linked Competition, Winning, and Losing all together.  We’ve all done them all, and can talk easily about each one:

1)      Competition  

A.      Why do we compete?

B.      How do we compete?

C.      When do we compete?

D.     Whom do we compete against?

E.      Do we have teammates?

F.       How do we help our teammates?

G.    (Feel free to add other questions for them, depending on your personal experience.)

That should take about 5 minutes; then engage them in “Q&A” and discussion for the next 10 minutes – ask them for their experiences and examples, ask them to talk with their parents about it at home, etc.  Then move on to…

2)      Winning

A.      What does “winning” mean?

B.      What does winning involve?

C.      What does winning achieve?

D.     Is winning important?

E.      Is winning good?

F.       What do we learn from winning?

G.     (Feel free to add…)

That should also take about 5 minutes; then engage, etc., then move on to…

3)      Losing

A.      What does “losing“ mean?

B.      How do we “lose”?

C.      Is losing bad?

D.     What do we learn from losing?

E.      How does losing affect our teammates?

F.       How can/should we help or assist our teammates?

G.     (Feel free to add…)

That should also take about 5 minutes; then engage, etc., then wrap up with a summary, and maybe give them a “homework assignment” for next week, to talk about then.

That’s it—very simple, very open, and very, very important.  You can do this.  Just as the Founders and Framers did what they did, for their posterity, we can do this for ours.   

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The Still-Growing List of Valuable Life Lessons

Love                                     Grace                             Tactics

Truth                                    Gratitude                        Strategy

Respect                                 Manners                         Fun

Integrity                                Courtesy                        Politics

Ethics                                    Consideration                 Civics

Honor                                   Life                                Laughter

Values                                   The Seasons                   God

History                                  Wisdom                          Faith

Geography                             Sounds                           Hope

Kindness                                Colors                            Charity

Perspective                             Feelings                         Religion

Finance                                  Economics                      Religious

Spelling                                 Hugging                         Death

Grammar                               Music                             Heaven

Cursive                                  Art                                 Prayer

Sociology (Getting Along)        The Arts                         Praying

Psychology (Why Sam smiles)  Algebra                          Carpentry

Competing                             Winning                          Losing
Landscaping                           American History             Silly Stuff
Surviving                               State History                    Games
Declaration of Independence    Local History                    Justice
U.S. Constitution                    Family Economics             Mercy
American Presidents                Don’t exist…live!              Dream BIG!

Articles of Confederation         Think outside the box       Think BIG!
Bill of Rights                           Define All Terms             Creativity
WW I                                     Mental Ju Jitsu                Tenacity
WW II                                   Einstein on Insanity          Perseverance
Revolutionary War                  Critical Thinking               Stop Digging!
Civil War                               "I can do better"               Stop picking!
European History                   Know what matters           Reality/Rumor
World History                        Wheat, not Chaff              Cunning

Bible as History                      Moses Stories                  Mythology
Bible as Allegory                    Church & State                Church & Faith
Wheat, not Chaff                    Math Games                    Inventions
“I can do more"                     Fractional Banking            Inventors
"Good enough?"                    Banks vs Thrifts               Debt

Stand up for Self                   Saving(s)                         Free Market 
Stand up for Family               Stand up for Faith             Laissez Faire  
Stand up for Faith                  Stand up for values          “Use it up…”

Health                                  “When in trouble,…”         Plan to succeed
Medicine                               Ask for help                    Borrow?  Lend?

Nutrition                               Prepare with Purpose       Enabling addicts

Personal Hygiene                   Listen, to think                Think, to speak
Rest & Exercise                      Words do hurt                 Encouragement

We are children of God           Right & Wrong                Self-trust
Lying                                    Cheating                         Stealing
Sin                                       Evil                                Self-reliance

Self-Confidence                     “If it’s too good to be true…” 

Whom do you trust?  (Why?)

Resources You Can Draw On:    Natural                               Human

                                              Moral                                 Spiritual

                                              Mental                                Physical

                                              Family                                Other

                                   

That’s 147 so far.  Plus lots of…      5-minute Bible Morals Lessons and

                                                   5-minute Personal Values Lessons