Angela Perez Baraquiois not just another Miss America she is a stellar role model for humility and perseverance for kids everywhere. It was during “Angie’s” participation in one of Gene Bedley’s seminars on the 12 benefits of Character Development that the Santiago Staff was introduced to Miss Hawaii. Angela P Baraquio’s platform for her Miss… Read more »
1. Values in Action! succeeds because teachers, administrators, and parents choose to make it a top priority in their educational plans. 2. Values in Action! succeeds because the staff selects an annual ethics theme, rather than to introduce a new theme every month. 3. Values in Action! succeeds because a site-based committee keeps presenting new… Read more »
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing About My Laws of Life: Just Beyond the Shallow Kenny Kang has participated twice in West Catholic High School’s essay contest and has won awards for both of his essays. In the spring of 1998 he was a first-place winner in his freshman class, and in the spring of 1999 he won honorable mention… Read more »
A Federal Trade Commission investigation into the marketing of violent entertainment to children has found that movie studios show R-rated films to teenagers younger than 17 as part of the companies’ research efforts to attract youngsters to such films. The year-long FTC report, ordered by President Clinton in the wake of last year’s shootings at… Read more »
If you want to know me, listen to me. If you want to strengthen me, point out my gifts and talents. If you want to motivate me, find the incentives that drive me. If you want to direct me, persuade me with the benefits. If you want to make me feel important, invite me. If… Read more »
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. – Booker T. Washington
Character Lessons for Life Gene Bedley $29.95 People-Wise Publications Chicken Soup for the Soul III Jack Canfield $12.95 Health Communications Mark Victor Hansen Kimberly Kirberger Daily Reflections of Highly Effective Teens Sean Covey $11.00 Simon & Shuster Life’s Greatest Lessons Hal Urban $14.95 Great Lessons Press The Gift Of Fear Gavin De Becker $6.95 Dell… Read more »
A Classic Tale of the Ages from The Book of Virtue Once there was an old man who had lost his wife and lived all alone. He had worked hard as a tailor all his life, but misfortunes had left him penniless, and now he was so old that he could no longer work for… Read more »
A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the eyes of a… Read more »
