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Becoming and raising good people does not happen by accident. Nothing that is worthwhile, valuable or magnificent happens by default -not a marriage, not a career, not children who grow...
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Becoming and raising good people does not happen by accident. Nothing that is worthwhile, valuable or magnificent happens by default -not a marriage, not a career, not children who grow into happy, kind and accomplished adults. Excellence is not accidental.
This podcast is a tool for parents to use as they purposefully introduce their children to high ideals, virtues, and concepts that are essential to becoming a good person. We do this in short 3-5 minute podcasts (borrowing from experiences in history, stories shared by others, scenarios and situations) with the intent to foster conversation between parents and children.
No one wants to be lectured or moralized -especially children and teens... especially by their parents. So having some outside voices on matters that will help shape children is invaluable. This of this podcast as a contemporary version of Aesops Fables. Great for parents, teachers, youth leaders or anyone who is looking for inspiring content when driving to school, a soccer game, to the grocery store or beginning your day. Enjoy!
Creator and Host: Dr. Thomas Wicke -a social psychologist who is president of a healthcare college in Denver, Colorado. He is an author, published academic, teacher and speaker on creating effective culture in the workplace through intentional leadership. He consulted with the Department of Homeland Security on community impact of disaster. He is husband for 30+ years to a public school teacher and parent of three children.
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This podcast is a tool for parents to use as they purposefully introduce their children to high ideals, virtues, and concepts that are essential to becoming a good person. We do this in short 3-5 minute podcasts (borrowing from experiences in history, stories shared by others, scenarios and situations) with the intent to foster conversation between parents and children.
No one wants to be lectured or moralized -especially children and teens... especially by their parents. So having some outside voices on matters that will help shape children is invaluable. This of this podcast as a contemporary version of Aesops Fables. Great for parents, teachers, youth leaders or anyone who is looking for inspiring content when driving to school, a soccer game, to the grocery store or beginning your day. Enjoy!
Creator and Host: Dr. Thomas Wicke -a social psychologist who is president of a healthcare college in Denver, Colorado. He is an author, published academic, teacher and speaker on creating effective culture in the workplace through intentional leadership. He consulted with the Department of Homeland Security on community impact of disaster. He is husband for 30+ years to a public school teacher and parent of three children.
16 NOV 2024 · Being grateful--feeling and expressing gratitude--is a quality that has an impact on so many other virtues and the general wellbeing of your life. There does not exist a happy, content and grounded person who is not grateful. And it is not the amount of stuff, friends or comforts we possess that make a person grateful. In fact those with much are often some of the most ungrateful people in the world while those with very little are the most grateful for what they have. And therfore also the happiest. I think we all know people who seem to have everything including wealth, fame, and things but who are miserable. It sounds ironic but it is a sad truth about human nature. Many of us have grown up since childhood enjoying life at the height of human civili\zation. We simply don't know any different and that is dangerous because it blinds us to the way life has been for most people for thousands of years and even today. There are millions who will go to bed hungry and now know where there next meal will come. There are other millions who will not sleep in a bed or in a home they can call their own. Many young boys will have to work to help support their family and many girls are not even allowed to go to school and obtain an education. So many of us have so much to be thankful for, and we don't even realize it.
Story from the Dennis Prager Radio Show (www.Pragertopia.com) on Sept. 13, 2024
9 NOV 2024 · You are not going to win or succeed every time. In fact, in life you, me and everyone will encounter more disappointments and failures that successes. Simply accepting this reality actually makes life easier. It takes some of the pressure off. It gives us a better perspective when we don't succeed. We can shrug off the failure as a common feature of life rather than being devastated. A healthy and realistic expectation also makes the failures sting less and avoid seeking someone or something to blame. It also helps us avoid a victim mentality (that all the world, society and people are out to get us) which is devastating to our happiness and future success in life. So knowing I'm going to have some setbacks, what is the key? Keep going! Failure is a temporary milemarker on the journey (the long, difficult, hot journey) to success.
28 OCT 2024 · There is no truly great person who is not fundamentally concerned about the needs of others. While it is important to focus on and work on improving ourselves, particularly developing positive qualities, our intellect, working hard to improve our place in life, so much of happiness, self-esteem and meaning comes from serving others. In the end, life is not about "me". It is about lifting, helping, serving and being attentive to the needs of others. Something magical happens to our own problems, fears, trials and shortcomings... they become smaller and feel less burdensome. When we live outside ourselves we become a person of character (and coincidentally, more people like us). Two stories of this kind of living are included: Steve Young and Mother Theresa. Every great person, famous or not, puts other people first and recognizes the seemingly ironic teaching by Jesus: "whosoever would save his life will lost it, but whosoever loses his life for my sake will find it."
22 OCT 2024 · In the training of character we sometimes work on single muscles but there are some qualities or virtues that are so profound and sophisticated that they are an entire muscle group. Integrity is one of these. Integrity includes responsiblity, honor/honesty and truthfulness. This podcast explores the critical nature of telling the truth, always! An otherwise accomplished life, full of hard work and sacrifice, can be ruined with one deviation from truth, with the telling of one lie. Trust and integrity are hard fought victories but a single instance of lying can call it all into question. When we lie we lose part of ourselves. Integrity means "the state of being whole or undivided". When we lie, things are based on a facade, a fabrication and the world, our world becomes unstable. All lies are discovered, eventually. The result is things fall apart -careers fall apart, marriages fall apart, lives fall apart, trust crumbles. That is a steep price to pay for not telling the truth. Like so many things, telling the truth is like a muscle that grows stronger the more we use it. It becomes reflexive and habitual. Hence the need to tell the truth, always while we are young. The pressure to capitulate even a tiny bit becomes more intense as we grow older. Those truth muscles need to be strong enough to hold together: integrity!
8 OCT 2024 · Conflict and opposition bring out the best (and the worst) in human nature. War is the ultimate expression of conflict and is, unfortunately, a staple of the human experience. War provides a line in the sand at which men and women say "this is what I believe and this is worth dying for." We need people of character, conviction and courage to stand for the right. We must fight injustice, oppression and those who will always try to inflict their will while denying the rights of others. Stories and illustrations of great sacrifice and duty come out of war. We need to know of these stories. We need to celebrate them. Why? Because we need to emulate the qualities in peace time, in war time and in those in between times when humanity teeters in one direction or the other. This episode contains the story of one man who gives us much to emulate and for which to strive. Thanks to Jesse Kelly and The Jesse Kelly Show for the Medal of Honor citation.
18 SEP 2024 · Loyalty and devotion are critical components of character. These are especially essential do demonstrate with family and friends. As with any good virtues, these often demand sacrifice and only become meaningful when they are put into practice when there is a steep price to pay. Many people walk away from responsibilities when that price becomes too high. We live in a world of "what's in it for me?" The truth is, standing up and fulfilling our obligations -especially when our obligations or repsonsibilities are to other people, particularly those who are relying on us and have no way of paying us back- is the purest form of love. This story (thank you PBS and Story Corps) of a mother and a daughter with a rare, lifelong disease is unique, to be sure, but it illustrates the same truth that each of us can exhibit in a hundred ways unique to every person and their particular life situation.
10 SEP 2024 · Ben Carson's life changed because of his mom and her decisions for her children. Mr. Carson became a world renown neurosurgeon and was a previous candidate for president of the United States. He shares the experience when his life turned around, all because his mom required him to do some very hard things (perhaps we will talk about the power of books in a future episode). Of all the powerful forces in the world, moms may be the most dynamic. This episode is both a reminder to listen to your mom but also an encouragement to moms -as tired as you are, as ill equipped as you may feel, your love (often in the form of tough love) and purposeful efforts in the lives of your children are beyond measure. In their character training, you are the most powerful force!
5 SEP 2024 · Part of growing up is doing things we don't want to do. Sometimes its inconvenient, sometimes its scarey, sometimes its uncomfortable. Pushing beyond our own comfort zone is something most people, myself included, don't want to do and avoid at all costs. But the truth of the matter is there is A LOT to be learned when we try new and hard things. We may find something that we love and becomes a career... or perhaps we find something we hate. Either way, we can learn critical lessons and develop qualities we would not otherwise have. In this podcase we share an interview Mike Rowe (from his own podcast, "The Way I heard It") had with Kevin O'Conner who had just such an experience when he was a teenager.
1 SEP 2024 · Yoda, Nike and Spencer Kimball all identified the great key to personal and character development so many of us struggle with, not because there is anything broken with us but because it is human nature. We all have aspirations and intentions but so often we just need to "do it". For Nike it is the tagline that has driven millions of dollars in earnings. For Yoda, it is the key to making a Jedi: "Do or do not. There is no try." In this eqisode, Michael Josephson, founder of The Josephson Institute of Ethics and the nationwide program, Character Counts, shares a story that I adopted years ago and is a mantra in our family: Five birds were sitting on a wire, two decided to fly south. How many remained? Enjoy!
28 AUG 2024 · When building character and the corresponding muscle groups--integrity, honor, kindness, patience, persistence, committment to truth, etc.-- you will encounter resistence. All growth is a product of resistence. This often happens in unexpected and unwanted ways. Wilbur Wright is known for changing the world but we share a story of how the world changed him. In fact, it appeared that the world turned on him in a cruel and undeserved way that derailed him from a promising future.... Or did it? Did the very unfortunate events of his youth contribute to create a much better and qualified person to change the world of aviation and science than may have happened if he had not encountered these challenges. Furthermore, his struggle and "setbacks" demonstrate the value of a "home gym". He found strength and built muscles of character while being streched, fatiqued and broken down in the environment of his home and family -where those who most loved and cared for him could help him lift a heavy set of weights life dealt to him. An excellent lesson for all of us who may be going through growing pains, training injuries, character rehabilitation or just becoming stronger, better people.
Becoming and raising good people does not happen by accident. Nothing that is worthwhile, valuable or magnificent happens by default -not a marriage, not a career, not children who grow...
show more
Becoming and raising good people does not happen by accident. Nothing that is worthwhile, valuable or magnificent happens by default -not a marriage, not a career, not children who grow into happy, kind and accomplished adults. Excellence is not accidental.
This podcast is a tool for parents to use as they purposefully introduce their children to high ideals, virtues, and concepts that are essential to becoming a good person. We do this in short 3-5 minute podcasts (borrowing from experiences in history, stories shared by others, scenarios and situations) with the intent to foster conversation between parents and children.
No one wants to be lectured or moralized -especially children and teens... especially by their parents. So having some outside voices on matters that will help shape children is invaluable. This of this podcast as a contemporary version of Aesops Fables. Great for parents, teachers, youth leaders or anyone who is looking for inspiring content when driving to school, a soccer game, to the grocery store or beginning your day. Enjoy!
Creator and Host: Dr. Thomas Wicke -a social psychologist who is president of a healthcare college in Denver, Colorado. He is an author, published academic, teacher and speaker on creating effective culture in the workplace through intentional leadership. He consulted with the Department of Homeland Security on community impact of disaster. He is husband for 30+ years to a public school teacher and parent of three children.
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This podcast is a tool for parents to use as they purposefully introduce their children to high ideals, virtues, and concepts that are essential to becoming a good person. We do this in short 3-5 minute podcasts (borrowing from experiences in history, stories shared by others, scenarios and situations) with the intent to foster conversation between parents and children.
No one wants to be lectured or moralized -especially children and teens... especially by their parents. So having some outside voices on matters that will help shape children is invaluable. This of this podcast as a contemporary version of Aesops Fables. Great for parents, teachers, youth leaders or anyone who is looking for inspiring content when driving to school, a soccer game, to the grocery store or beginning your day. Enjoy!
Creator and Host: Dr. Thomas Wicke -a social psychologist who is president of a healthcare college in Denver, Colorado. He is an author, published academic, teacher and speaker on creating effective culture in the workplace through intentional leadership. He consulted with the Department of Homeland Security on community impact of disaster. He is husband for 30+ years to a public school teacher and parent of three children.
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