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    The 11 Things Your Kids Should Know (So They Can Save America): And Basic Lessons for the Rest of Us
    The 11 Things Your Kids Should Know (So They Can Save America): And Basic Lessons for the Rest of Us
    The 11 Things Your Kids Should Know (So They Can Save America): And Basic Lessons for the Rest of Us
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    The 11 Things Your Kids Should Know (So They Can Save America): And Basic Lessons for the Rest of Us

    By Steve White

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    Our country and our government have huge issues to deal with today. We have enormous debt, high unemployment, entitlement programs that are unsustainable, pornography, drug use, and skyrocketing divorce rates. We lack the honesty, integrity, and moral values of our forefathers. Our country isnt broken. People are broken.

    Author Steve White proposes a solution to these ever-increasing problems. In The 11 Things Your Kids Should Know (So They Can Save America), he discusses eleven important principles that should be the foundation of every childs upbringing. By focusing on these basic ideas that help young people form good moral compasses, White believes we can raise a generation that embodies the same values as the countrys Founding Fathers, thereby bringing honesty, integrity, and moral values back to America. Some of the principles he discusses include teaching children to be nice, like themselves, make a difference, eat healthy and stay fit, never stop learning, and get to know God.

    Using real-life examples, White shows how we can equip todays children to make a difference, regain our value system, and save our nation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMar 6, 2012
    ISBN9781469769158
    The 11 Things Your Kids Should Know (So They Can Save America): And Basic Lessons for the Rest of Us
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    Steve White

    Steve White has been an editor, colourist, inker and artist for almost four decades, beginning his career at Marvel UK on the likes of Care Bears, Transformers and Thundercats in the late eighties before writing for 2000AD, editing for Titan Comics, and being an illustrator on numerous books and magazines. Steve has been contributing editor on several art books for Titan including Dinosaur Art and The Paleoart of Julius Costonyi.

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      The 11 Things Your Kids Should Know (So They Can Save America) - Steve White

      The 11 Things Your

      Kids Should Know

      (So They Can Save America)

      And Basic Lessons for the Rest of Us

      Steve White

      iUniverse, Inc.

      Bloomington

      The 11 Things Your Kids Should Know (So They Can Save America)

      And Basic Lessons for the Rest of Us

      Copyright © 2012 by Steve White

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      ISBN: 978-1-4697-6914-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4697-6915-8 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012901943

      Printed in the United States of America

      iUniverse rev. date: 02/29/2012

      Contents

      Preface

      Introduction

      A Few Words

      about Parenting

      Chapter 1

      Make Sure They Like That Person in the Mirror

      Chapter 2

      Teach Them to Love Until It Doesn’t Hurt Anymore

      Chapter 3

      Teach Them to Be Nice

      Chapter 4

      Getting to Know God

      Chapter 5

      Doing unto Others:

      The Gold in the Rule

      Chapter 6

      Teach Them to Never

      Stop Learning

      Chapter 7

      Make Sure They Learn to Make a Difference

      Chapter 8

      Eating Healthy and Staying Fit

      Chapter 9

      All Work and No Play Sucks: Have Them Go for Balance

      Chapter 10

      Money Matters

      Chapter 11

      They Are Special

      Epilogue

      About the Author

      For my grandchildren and all of my unborn great grandchildren.

      Preface

      In my previous book entitled Please Change Your Mind, I created a graphic diagram that showed how the mind works. A brief summary of that graphic is provided here and will be helpful to you in understanding The 11 Things Your Kids Should Know.

      Life comes at all of us at 100 mph every day, whether we like it or not. You process life through a lens. On that lens, you place laws, which are simply the rules that you hold to be true. They only get there with your permission. Laws are suggested from many different places like parents, school, church, and your own experiences. But ultimately, you have to approve them before they go on your lens.

      You have these laws about virtually everything, such as the following:

      •   Men not crying.

      •   Mom’s way to do the laundry.

      •   Dad’s way to park the car.

      •   My self-worth being dependent on winning at games.

      •   And on and on and on.

      You have these laws about every aspect of your life. When something happens in your life, you process it through your lens, which contains all your laws. At the same time, you, like everyone else, have a set of human needs that you’re trying to meet.

      So when something happens in life, the first thing you do is think something. What you think is driven by the laws on your lens. If, for example, you have a law on your lens that says, Dogs are vicious, then whenever you see a dog you will think, This dog is vicious. Once you think that, you will feel something, which in this case is probably fear. If you feel fear, then what are you likely to do? Run, of course. And this is the progression for everything that occurs in your life: you think something, you feel something, and then you do something.

      The things that you do, your behavior, will create results in your life. These results will either meet your needs or they won’t. But results take time to measure. So if over time your results are not meeting your needs, then you probably have a bad law on your lens. Human growth is the process of examining the laws on your lens and changing the ones that aren’t meeting your needs. Your epicenter of control is in what you think. And if you can change what you think, then you change everything.

      I’m not saying that your laws are good or bad or right or wrong. All I’m saying is that you have a lens, that you are putting laws on your lens every day, and that you hold these laws to be true. Your laws dictate what you think, which drives what you feel, which in turn drives what you do. What you do creates results in your life. Those results produce feedback that either meets your needs or doesn’t.

      In diagram form, the process looks like this:

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      The 11 Things Your Kids Should Know (So They Can Save America) are the eleven laws that I would put on the lens of every child. And when I say laws, I mean collectively all the things that we might call principles, beliefs, or things that we hold to be true.

      Introduction

      I came to understand how my mind really works late in my life. I developed the Please Change Your Mind process diagram long after it had any chance of impacting the lives of my children.

      At the same time, I am becoming increasingly convinced that the United

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