Episode 28

₿HS028: Early Readers – Super Kay Adventures

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In today's show, Tali shares exciting developments with her early readers series. This is a perfect way to leverage the power of story to engage with your younger children and grandchildren. The accompanying journal not only helps them embrace the concepts, it also provides a time for fellowship and sharing memories.

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Transcript
Tali:

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to Bitcoin homeschoolers.

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Today's episode will just be me.

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Scott is away at a game

conference mingling with other

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game designers, manufacturers.

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So it's just going to be me today and I've

got a very exciting announcement to make,

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which is that my daughter and I have.

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Partnered together and written the first

book in a series of children's books.

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So I'm going to go a little bit in depth

into why I decided to write this series

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and what I'm hoping to accomplish.

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The idea for writing this

early readers series actually

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started a couple of years ago.

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I had a vague notion that I wanted

to convey some lessons that I learned

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through 20 years of homeschooling the

kids and what I observed, not only with

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my own kids, but what other families

experience in the homeschooling community.

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It took about two years

for the ideas to solidify.

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I remember reaching out to my niece

two years ago and asking if she

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was free to draw some pictures for

me, because she's a very wonderful.

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Illustrator.

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And she said, what is it

that you want to tell?

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And.

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I was not able to verbalize

what I wanted to say.

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It took about two years of the idea

percolating in my mind before it

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finally just download it all at once.

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I wrote the first book and then

quickly wrote four books after that.

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I reached out to my daughter,

Brianna, who is available.

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The summer.

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And she agreed to draw

the pictures for me.

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And very quickly, within a short

time, we were able to finish

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the first book Flowers for Mom.

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The.

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Idea that I'm trying to convey with

the series that I'm calling the

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Super Kay Adventures.Is I really

want to get back to the roots of

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the good old fashioned values that.

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that we used to teach our kids.

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I feel like today with a lot

of Those social media, like

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the young influencers and

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The woke agenda, et cetera,

we have veered away from.

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Values that actually bring a lot

of self-confidence to children.

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When we tell kids today that

they can be whatever they want

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and give them no boundary.

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We imagined that it would give

them more freedom and more sense

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of self worth and self validity.

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But actually what I have seen, I'm

not a psychologist and I'm not.

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I'm not a philosopher or anything,

but I'm just, I'm seeing what I.

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I'm telling you what I've seen

over the last 20 years is the

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kids that have a firm boundary set

by parents with good intentions.

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They tend to be more secure in

themselves because they know that.

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That there are people looking out for

them and they know where the line is.

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When you give no lines and.

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In the name of, complete free

self expression for the kids.

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They end up.

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What I have observed is that they

end up being extremely insecure.

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They don't know.

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They don't know, right

from wrong necessarily.

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And they can feel like they may not be

able to verbalize it, but they can feel.

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Something amiss.

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They can feel people's reaction to them.

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That are unspoken, but

still there, for example.

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Some families we used

to interact with adopted.

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The idea that.

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Parents shouldn't ever say no to their

children that's a way of limiting

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their children's freedom of expression.

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That sounds really great on paper and

maybe in the books that some popular

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psychology authors would talk about, but

in reality, what you S what you observe.

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Is that these kids can't get along

with anybody because nobody has

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taught them how exactly to interact

successfully in social situations.

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They are very difficult for

other parents to handle.

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So when we co-teach.

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They are the kids that we don't

want in our class because we

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cannot control them at all.

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And other kids don't want to play with

those kids either because they don't

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know how to compromise when you have

more than one person trying to play,

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they have to compromise on some level.

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And these kids are never said no to.

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They don't know how to compromise.

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And there's actually, in the

Bitcoin space, we talk a lot about

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FUD around money and FUD around

energy and FUD around food health.

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I think there's actually also

a lot of FUD around parenting.

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When I had the idea to write a Super

Kay Adventures one of the main goals

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that I had was to just come back around

to The good old fashion, I call it

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. Good old fashioned values, but really

it's just really common sense values.

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That was my original intent.

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But.

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As I was preparing for this podcast and.

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Actually planning to talk about.

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Values like integrity and honesty

and self responsibility, et cetera.

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It struck me through a recent

conversation, that there was actually

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something even deeper that we're missing.

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So very recently a friend of my told

me that her daughter attempted suicide.

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Which was a very huge shock.

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Because the family is very loving.

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The family is very close.

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They belong to a church community

that is also very supportive.

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So it was very shocking it was

very shocking that someone from a

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social environment like that would

think that life is not worth living.

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Because I always in the past was,

I would assume that if somebody's.

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would try something or even

contemplate an idea like suicide.

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They would either be mentally unstable or

they came from a very harsh environment

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that stole their hope for life.

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But that's not the case from the

personal stories that I have heard.

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For example, a friend a

few years ago actually did

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succeed in taking his own life.

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Again a loving family, part of a

very supportive church community.

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And I went to the funeral and I stood

there and I just was so confused.

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I just couldn't wrap my

head around why this child.

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would.

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think that his life was not worth living.

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A few years back.

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I don't know if you guys remember

those or watch those, but there was a

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show on Netflix called 13 reasons why.

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And it ran for three seasons.

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And studies show that during

those three years American teen

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suicide rate increased by 25%.

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I never watched it.

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But my understanding is that they

almost glorify doing that like exiting

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life and leaving a mark that way.

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I live in Kentucky and the State of

Kentucky started an initiative to combat

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the what 13 reasons why

was doing with teens.

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And so they started this project.

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It's a teen suicide prevention series.

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And my daughter was cast the show and

because she was a minor, I went to the

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shoot every single day with her, and

I was able to converse with people.

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Who have been brought in as a teen

mental health consultants and I

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was able to interact with the crew.

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And a lot of the.

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The community the school teachers,

the local school teachers.

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It was a huge endeavor.

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A lot of people came together to

make this project happen, but.

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Prior to that.

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I didn't really have very much exposure

personally, to people who experienced

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loved ones trying or succeeding at

suicide, and I was shocked.To hear.

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Almost everybody onset.

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Saying that they knew

someone who did that.

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So anyway, so tying it all back

to the Super Kay Adventure.

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So my original intent when I wrote the

Super Kay Adventures was for fun.

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And have a money literacy

young readers series, but I.

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I accidentally stumbled on this idea

that maybe what we need to do as

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parents, what we can add on top

of, emphasizing money literacy is.

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Is to start shifting our kids

eyes from external rewards

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to intrinsic sense of value.

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So originally I wanted a young reader

level book that is similar to William

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Bennet's big book of Virtues that came

out 25 years ago and it was a collection

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of stories that were listed by the

virtue they highlighted in his book.

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That was a very thick.

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Volume and then he created a

book specifically for kids.

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So I want it to follow in those footsteps

and highlight virtues, like honesty,

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integrity, and bravery, because I

feel that a lot of entertainment today

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glorify getting away with things.

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It's almost

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like

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if you're, if you do right things,

you are a goody two shoe and

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you're boring and you're a nerd.

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But if you break the rules, if

you get away with doing wrong

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things you're almost heroic.

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Which is to me, such a strange backward

thinking of what is good and bad.

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So anyway, so that was my original intent.

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But because of what I heard from my

friend about what her daughter tried to

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do last week, it brought my attention

back to the confusion that I felt

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when I was standing in the middle of

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my,

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friend's funeral wondering what

happened to our young people that

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they would think life is not worth

living or that they are so worthless

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that nobody's going to miss them if

they took themselves out of this life.

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Please bear with me.

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I know I'm rambling a little bit,

but there is a connection with

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everything that I'm saying right now.

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I promise.

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Okay.

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So I'm going to go into super K ventures,

but I really want to emphasize the

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hero's journal that goes with it.

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So the Super Kay Adventure, the

first book is Flowers for Mom.

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And as I mentioned before, I originally

wrote it so that we can start to gently

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I introduce money literacy concepts,

and then also to highlight traditional

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virtues, taking responsibility for your

actions being honest, having integrity,

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being brave, facing your mistakes and

making amends, that type of thing.

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So in the book Flowers for Mom our

little guy, seven year old, Kay,

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he accidentally breaks his mom's vase

and they sell flowers that his dad

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gave his mom and he is in a dilemma.

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He wants to lie about it.

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He wants to blame his dog, but

eventually he does tell the truth.

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And not only did he tell the truth.

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But he also offered to

replace the flowers.

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He did not ask his parents for money.

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He did not go to his grandparents

for money, but he decided to to

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take responsibility and do what

he could as a 7 year old boy.

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So he transforms into his alter

ego, Super Kay and of course,

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Super Kay can do super things.

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He goes to his mom, dad, grandad, grandma.

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And he offers to help them with

things, helping with chores around

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the house so that he can earn money.

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So over time, he's able to earn

enough money to replace...well in

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his mind, he, there was an amount.

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He asked his dad, how much do I need

To earn so that I can buy mom the

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flowers to replace them for her.

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And he said $10 well.

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Kay works very hard over a period of

time and he's able to save up $10.

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He's very excited.

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He's about to go and do what

he promised his mom would do.

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And bam.

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Price increased.

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And the flowers are no longer $10.

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So in that way.

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Yes, I'm sliding in a little

bit of the inflation concept.

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I'm not going to spoil the ending for you.

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So I'm not going to go all the

way to the end of the book, but

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that's,

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Tali: that's

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sort of

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the setup of the story and every book

following Flowers for Mom will have some

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kind of adventure for this 7 year old

boy and his three siblings and yes, they

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are based on my memories of my four kids

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and when they were very little.

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And so it, the stories are

fun and the stories are

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meant to sort of a bridge to express

various real life happenings kids

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should be aware of and maybe

not being told explicitly is

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happening like inflation and.

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And such, so the stories are fun and

the fonts I decided purposefully to

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make them very big because when kids are

just learning how to read they really

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need the words to be to be pretty large.

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If we give them a fine print,

like the regular 12 point print

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it's actually very difficult for

kids to focus their eyes that way.

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You can read up on the vision

changes of kids as they mature.

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But for younger kids words it's really

needs to be quite large, like larger

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than what we would be used to reading.

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So I set the font at 28 point

on purpose for the kids, but

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also for the grandparents.

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So that they can read the books

to the kids and not have to

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look for their reading glasses.

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So that's one thing.

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And the other thing is I want it, the

words, the sentences to be quite short.

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Because I do want these books to dual

purpose as early reading books for kids.

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It would serve as a.

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As a book that, the parents would

read to them first, and then they

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should, they will.read to themselves.

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So those sentences are short.

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Intentionally.

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The other thing is I also want it

the pictures to be very relatable.

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I didn't want it to look the lines

to look very clean, and I didn't

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want the colors to be uniform because

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if we if you look at a book like

the Blue's Clues, I think most

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people know Blue's clues style.

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It's digital art and the

lines are very crisp.

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And the coloring is very perfect and it's

clearly not a human made kind of art it's.

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Very clearly like digitally made.

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And when my kids were little.

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Aye.

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Notice that they almost never

reached for those books.

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They always reached for books that looked

like a human hand drew the pictures.

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Even though to the adult eyes.

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I those pictures are not even that great.

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The pictures are not perfect, their

proportions are maybe not true to life,

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but the, I noticed my kids at least

always reached for the pictures that

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that are closer to their own level.

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So like the old the old

Clifford the Big Red Dog.

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The older Curious George type

of books, the hand drawn the

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hand colored in kind of style.

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And I think one of the reasons might

be because they can see themselves

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able to draw something like that.

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Whereas if it's something like

Blue's Clues, they know that it is

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just not it's so far away from what

they're doing with their hands pen

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to paper kind of thing that they

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I don't know.

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I don't know why they just

didn't, they weren't drawn to it.

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So I when I talked to my daughter,

when we were brainstorming about

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how we wanted the pictures to look,

I wanted it to be raw and a little

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bit, rough around the edges and.

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Just very much at the level that

a five-year-old can relate to and

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go, oh, if I tried a few times, I

can maybe draw a picture like that.

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so

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I was recently at the Bitcoin conference

in Nashville, and I was able to observe

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the kids reading Flowers for Mom.

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And I remember I walked by

there's a little girl and she

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was reading it with her mom.

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And she turned and said,

who drew these pictures?

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And I pointed to my daughter, at

the time, she was across the way and

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talking to someone and I said she did.

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And the little girl said,

how did she get so good?

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And I said, with lots of practice,

but what I loved about that

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statement was like, She knew it was.

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Ah, let's see, how do I say this?

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She knew that it was

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something that a person can

draw with some practice.

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Does that make sense?

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That it is not like hop on the

computer and drag your mouse around.

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It's like she, she asked the

question, how does she get so good?

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Meaning she understood that there

was a progress that needed to

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make, but that it was possible.

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So I loved, I love that question.

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And she read them the book with her mom.

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And when she was done, she walked up to

my daughter and said, excuse me, And.

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She said.

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I love your pictures.

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And I just, oh my gosh, it

made me feel so good because I

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knew that we chose the right.

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art style for these young

reader books when she said that.

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So I was very glad.

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So big font.

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Short sentences for young readers.

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And pictures that are relatable.

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And I'm going to get into the hero

journal, which kind of ties back

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into what I was saying before about

our young people's mental health.

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Okay.

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So the hero journal.

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The hero journal.

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Each day has four entries.

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The first entry is just recording the day.

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For the reason that this hero

journal is meant for young kids.

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I print it out the weeks of the day so all they have to do is circle it.

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So really they're just

recognizing the words.

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I didn't want them to have to

write it out because at that age

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early reader age, their dexterity

in their hands are not great yet.

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the purpose is just for them to

practice names of the weekdays

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and then practice the names of the

month and write their numbers in.

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So you circle the day of the week.

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You read through the months and under

the month the appropriate month.

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So right now it's july they would

write under the month the day.

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So for example, today is July 31st.

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So you would write three, one,

and underneath that will be 20 24.

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So very simple.

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The first page.

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The second page is for them

to draw a picture of something

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heroic that they did themselves.

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So it is one thing for them to read

the Super Kay Adventures and read the

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7 year old boy being responsible, being

brave, taking responsibility, et cetera.

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But it's another thing to

see themselves that way.

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Our hero culture today is all about

the hero being somebody in a costume

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So whether it's Superman or Batman or whatever marvel or DC or any other

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superhero the story out there the

hero is somebody else and they solve

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the problem for everybody else.

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But I wanted the kids to start

to see themselves as super.

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So the second page in the hero

journal is very important.

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It is a way for them to form the

habit of seeing their own good deeds

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Life is fast and we are always, running in and out.

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And especially if the kids are

young, they might be doing sports.

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They might be going on field

trips, depending on what you're

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doing with with the kids.

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If they're going to school,

if you're homeschooling.

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But life is fast paced and there

are a lot of things that we don't

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see because we're so quick to

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we're so quick to move

on to the next thing.

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The purpose of this page is for the

parent and the child to sit down

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together and reflect if you're into

meditation at all, you would know

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that reflection is very important.

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Are we teaching that to our kids and

when they reflect, what do they remember?

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If you reflect and you think

of only the things that you

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did not like, how was your day?

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Well,

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Johnny broke my pencil.

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Okay.

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That's like emotionally intense moments.

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So probably that's why

it comes to mind first.

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How was your day?

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I fell down on the playground.

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Also emotionally charged experience.

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But then heroic things

like the good deeds.

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They may or may not have a

very strong emotional charge.

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And so they, without deliberate intention

to bring it back in into your mind you

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pass them by, you don't even realize it.

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So for example, when you're talking

to a five-year-old six year old, seven

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year old, what's something that's

heroic that they can write down on their

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hero page.

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Well, if they were

playing on the playground.

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And they fell.

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But they got back up.

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that's heroic.

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Heroes - they get knocked

down, they get back up.

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So you can draw a picture of

just the boy at a playground.

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If his friend or his sibling fell down

and he stopped to say, are you okay?

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Or he stopped to help the other child up.

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That's heroic to the person he helped.

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So you can draw a picture of that.

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If let's say mom had a headache.

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And the child fetches Tylenol for

her and brings her a glass of water.

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Well that is actually a wonderful

act of good deed for the mom, right?

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If the sibling had a bad day and

the child gives his sibling a hug.

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That's heroic because that

made a difference to somebody

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else's life experience.

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So parent and child can reflect

on the day and highlight these

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passing moments and recognize that

they're actually really important.

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So the second page is

for drawing a picture.

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The third page is to describe

the experience in words.

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So for example, In the example

that the boy helped his sibling up

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after the sibling fell, you can say

something like I helped brother up.

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That's four words.

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So a five-year-old can write

that six year old can write that.

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Now if your child is not yet old

enough to be able to write these words.

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Or even know how to spell.

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What I used to do was, I will write

out the words, but in dotted lines.

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And then I would just tell my, my kids, I

would just tell them to trace my letters.

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So that serves two functions.

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One is

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they're the practicing their dexterity.

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The muscle control in their fingers.

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And the second is they are actually

seeing, like forming the words.

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And they may not consciously know

that they are learning the spelling

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of the word or the identification

of the word, but it's happening.

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The input is happening in

the back of their mind.

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So depending on the child's age please do

not make this into a quiz kind of thing.

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And.

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If they spell a word wrong, no biggie.

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Just write it correctly in a

dotted-line have them trace.

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If you have heard our podcast from

before our previous episodes, I

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mentioned the book called Learning

with Love and it's by Suzuki the guy

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who started the Suzuki violin method.

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He emphatically mentioned in that

book, how important it is to celebrate.

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Without correction.

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And yes, there is a place for

correction, but in this case in the

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beginning of learning, it's important

to celebrate and just show them

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the right way without correction.

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In the book

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Called How to Teach Your Child to

Read to read that whole series,

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how to teach your baby how to

read, how does he do a baby math?

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In that series.

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By Glenn Doman.

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Same thing.

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He says, if you hold up two words

and say point to mom and the

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child points to dad, you said.

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Oh, that's very good.

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And then you hold out the board

that says, mom, So you're correcting

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without the tone of correction.

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So if you're writing on the third page of

the hero journal and your child, spells.

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Well spells dad with a

D that goes backwards.

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You don't necessarily have

to say the D is backwards.

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Let's write a correctly.

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You can just say, Hey, let's trace

dad again and you write it correctly.

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They'll get the point, but you

don't want that tone of correction

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in there because what we're trying

to focus on is their good deeds.

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Correction, and all of those

things that's get them a little

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bit like we can talk about that on

another occasion, but the emotional

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experience for the child when they're

writing the hero journal should be

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celebratory in every way possible.

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Okay, so you have the first page's date,

the second page, you draw a picture.

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The third page you have them trace your

words, or they can write their own words.

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And the fourth one is what I think

is the most important actually.

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And it says, what superpower

did you use today?

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Now.

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In the example that I

gave in the hero journal.

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It's my smile.

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The child's smile.

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So you can draw a picture, write the word.

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Either one is fine.

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I think kids at that age probably

would prefer to draw a picture.

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But again, if you want

them to write words,

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Write

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the words out in dotted lines.

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And have them trace the words.

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Now.

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The superpower can be anything.

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This is a place to be really creative.

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So can this superpower be a soft touch?

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Yes, it can because it's very comforting.

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Can this superpower be a hug?

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A really good hug.

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Yes, it can.

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Can the super power be listening.

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Yes.

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can the I superpower be thoughtfulness?

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Yes.

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Can I superpower be just staying

quiet when somebody is talking.

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Yes.

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All of these things can be good.

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So again, the point of the journal

entry is to celebrate the good deeds

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and to spotlight moments that might be

passing until you reflect on it and you

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realize that was heroic to the person

who was on the receiving end of it.

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Does that make sense?

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So if you've held, so

think long-term here.

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Right now, your child's five let's say,

and you start this journal every day.

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They're forming a habit of

reflecting on their good deeds.

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You're not saying, Hey, good job.

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I'm going to give you a piece of

candy or you can have ice cream.

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You're not saying here's a sticker.

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If everyday you, you do a

good deed you get a sticker.

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You're not saying if you're going to do

a good deed, then you can have the iPad.

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There's no external reward.

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There's just internal satisfaction.

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Every single person feels good when

they're able to help another human being.

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That's just true.

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Unless you have some kind of

mental disability or something.

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You feel good when you make a

difference, a positive difference

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in somebody else's life.

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It's human nature.

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And so if we help our kids form that habit

they start to look at the world as for,

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or through the eyes of a powerful person.

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Through the eyes of a capable person.

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Through the eyes of somebody who matters.

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Okay, so getting back to this

epidemic of teen depression.

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People talk about it

being mental health issue.

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I wonder about that.

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Again, I am not a psychologist.

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I'm not a philosopher.

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This is just.

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What I see with my own two eyes.

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If we take the reward for a person and

draw it completely outside of themselves.

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What do they have left with?

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So think about the way that our kids are

brought up today in society in schools.

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Starting from even preschool.

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Everything is about

positive reinforcement.

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And what is positive reinforcement?

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External reward.

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So if you're so just even in my

own kids' experience, they did go,

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two of them did go to preschool.

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And it's about walking on the line

that's taped down in the hallway.

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And then the teacher saying good job.

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It's.

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You.

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Doing something well, and then

the teacher puts a sticker on

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the board for everybody to see.

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In every interaction like that

they're being told over and over again

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without words.

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That their value is based on other people.

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Other people's recognition.

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So if they were to take

themselves out, Does it make

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sense that they would think that.

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Nobody will miss them.

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I don't know.

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Again I'm treading on waters that

are very sensitive and I'm definitely

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not making light of what is happening

in and people struggling with.

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Mental health issues, but I'm just,

I'm asking questions as a parent.

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If you disagree with me.

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Just forget everything I said.

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But if you think there might be

something to it start looking

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for data in the human interaction

that you observe every single day.

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And see what conclusion you come up with.

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Okay.

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Let's tie it into homeschooling since

this is a homeschooling podcast.

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When you are the teacher, counselor,

nurse, school principal, cook

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driver.

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And will you have all those titles and

you're responsible for all of them.

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It's really easy for us to

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live by the checklist.

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And as I mentioned before,

life moves really fast

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to not

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pay as much attention to these non

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academic subjects.

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I have found that we are.

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So at least for myself, we are

focused on making sure our kids

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can read and write and do math.

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the three R's,, reading,

arithmetic, writing.

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That

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everything else happens

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rather unintentionally.

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I just know that if I had to go

back and do it all over again.

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One of the things that I

would do differently is

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to realize that the three R's

are the easiest subjects they

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can learn later in life.

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But the way that they see,

the lens that they see through

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the lens that they see through at life

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is much harder to adjust

when they get older.

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I would encourage you, whether

it's with Super Kay Adventures

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and the hero's journal or

something else that you celebrate

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more often than not what your

kids do right rather than to

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correct what they do wrong.

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I didn't understand when my kids

were young how important that is.

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But I do now looking back.

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So that's, this is my

encouragement to all the young

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homeschooling families out there.

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If you want to check out Super Kay

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both the book and the journal

are available on Amazon as

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well as on free market kids.

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I did redesign the cover.

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So the original cover for the hero's

journal is on sale on free market kids.

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If you go to Amazon, you

should see the updated cover.

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It's blue.

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The one before was a lime green , but

the inside is exactly the same.

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And if you want to just print

out your own hero journal.

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You can go to Super-Kay.com.

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It will be in the show notes and you

can print out the pages yourself.

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You don't have to buy a hero journal.

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I just made that available

because it's a keepsake.

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When I go through my memory boxes where

the kids work, I, it just always warms

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my heart to go back and read their

writings, even if their writings were

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almost illegible in the beginning,

I still treasure those writing

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those drawings and writing so much.

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And so the keepsake book.

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Is.

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Yeah.

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Bound and nice and all that, but you,

if you don't want to invest in that,

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then just go to Super-Kay.com and

you can print out the pages yourself.

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I would rather you help your kids

form the habit of seeing their

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good deeds than to sell you a book.

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Okay.

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So before I wrap up, I want to give

you one last example to think about.

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In the book called Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill not only talks about how to.

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have the right mindset for making money,

but he shares an incredible personal

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experience with his son who was born

without ears, talking about the importance

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of setting a powerful paradigm for

your child to see the world through.

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So his baby was born without ears.

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And he was told by his doctor that

the baby will be a handicap his

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whole entire life, and basically

will live a lesser quality life.

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And Napolean Hill, decided that

was not the fate of his child.

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He was not accepting that fact.

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So he spoke to the baby for hours every

day to tell him over and over again

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from the time he was newborn, but even

as the child was growing up, that the

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lack of physical ears was not going to

be a handicap, but that it was a gift.

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Because he would receive more

kindness from everyone he encountered

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because of the lack of physical ears.

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And so he set that

expectation for his baby.

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he shared that his son grew up

expecting it and received it.

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So it just goes to show how important

it is for us to to direct our kids'

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attention to look at the world through

a paradigm that is self-empowering

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because he very easily could have just

decided to, to agree with the doctor.

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And say, yeah, my son is handicap and

yes, people are going to look at him

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funny cause he had no ears and he's

probably going to have a difficult life

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Because he can't hear.

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And

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this is early

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19 hundreds.

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And there weren't a lot of assistance

for handicap kids, but he decided

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that that was not the way he

wanted his son to see the world.

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So I offer that example as another

thing to think about as a parent,

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when you're raising your kids showing

them that they are capable of making

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a difference in the lives of other

people, especially the people who are

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closest to them, their, their family

members, their siblings, their parents,

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their grandparents, their neighbors.

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It is so powerful.

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It is so powerful.

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So anyway, I wanted to offer

up the example for you to

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consider before we wrap up.

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that's it for me.

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Thank you so much for listening today.

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Sorry, Scott wasn't a part of it.

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In the next episode, I'm going to

interview my kids and have them talk a

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little bit about their favorite books

when there were young readers themselves,

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what they looked for when they're picking

books, just to give you a little bit

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more information about early reading

from the point of view of the child.

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My kids are grown, but they'll

remember things that are

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different than I do for sure.

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So that's the next episode

and I will see you then.

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Thank you So much.

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Bye.

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Hey there, wonderful listeners! I'm Tali, and I'm so excited to welcome you to our podcast today. For two decades, I was knee-deep in the incredible journey of homeschooling my four amazing kids. It was a world of boundless creativity, filled with lesson plans, school projects, sports, and beautiful chaos. But when my children all graduated, a brand-new, unforeseen adventure awaited me - the captivating world of Bitcoin.

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Now, here we are today, and I couldn't be more thrilled to be part of the vibrant Bitcoin community. In an unexpected twist, my husband Scott and I realized that our homeschooling experiences can be a treasure trove of insights for Bitcoiners who, like us, want to take charge of their children's education. So, in addition to sharing our Bitcoin knowledge with Precoiners with HODL UP and the Orange Hatter podcast, we're here to offer tips and guidance for Bitcoin-homeschoolers. It's going to be an incredible journey, and I can't wait to share it with all of you. Enjoy the ride!
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Scott Lindberg is a freedom-loving entrepreneur, author, and game designer. He is a proponent of finding freedom by taking self-custody of education, money and speech.

He and his wife, Tali, co-founded Free Market Kids. Their passion is to give the next generation the knowledge and tools to maximize their chances for freedom, success and happiness. Free Market Kids makes it easy and fun to introduce money concepts to kids through tabletop games, courses, lesson plans and trusted resources. They are best known for HODL UP™, a Bitcoin mining game.

Scott graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering. In 2001, he graduated Yale’s School of Management with a Master of Business Administration.