Save A Life

Operation Prom Night

Megan — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:26:53 +0000

The Save a Life Campaign will be speaking at Sherrard High School in Sherrard, Illinois, on Wednesday, May 2nd. The theme of the engagement is “Where do You Stand?”

It Get’s Better

Megan — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:58:39 +0000

Beginning with one inspiring video, Dan Savage used the web to create the It Gets Better project–a movement that has generated thousands of uplifting videos that give hope to teens.

Dateline:’My Kid Would Never Do That: Driving’

Megan — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:38:24 +0000

Teen Drinking and Driving: Parental Sanity Savers and 4 Critical Tips to Boost Your Teen’s Safety. By Dr. Michele Borba

The Value of Moral Courage

Megan — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:38:12 +0000

Courage is a highly admired virtue. Most often we associate the word with physical prowess or bravery. But there’s another form of valour that’s much more important because it comes up more often. It’s called moral courage – the willingness to face not physical danger but emotional pain, disapproval, financial insecurity, or uncertainty rather than compromise an ethical principle.

Moral courage is essential not only for a virtuous life, but a happy one. Without courage, we have no control over our lives. Our fears corrode our spirit and confine us like a barbed wire fence. That’s why they say a coward dies a thousand deaths, a brave man but one.

Integrity is essential to self-esteem and the admiration of others. It requires us to put our comforts, possessions, friendships, and even jobs at risk in the defence of deeply held principles.

It takes moral fortitude to be honest at the risk of ridicule, rejection, or retaliation or when doing so may jeopardize our income or career. It takes boldness to be accountable and own up to mistakes when doing so may get us in trouble. It takes backbone to stand tough with our kids when doing so may cost us their affection.

Mark Twain said, ‘Courage is not the absence of fear but the resistance of fear, the mastery of fear.’ To paraphrase President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the enemy is not what we fear; it is fear itself. If our insecurities and anxieties cause us to lose confidence in the power of virtue, we will lose something very precious.

People with moral courage rarely get medals, but it is the best marker of true character and a virtue others can be proud of.

Written by Michael Josephson

Bully-Official Trailer

Megan — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:54:34 +0000

Parents of teen who died texting and driving: ‘Kids think they’re invincible’

Megan — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:07:20 +0000

Taylor Sauer was messaging every 90 seconds while going 80 mph on Idaho highway in Jan.

CNN Heroes: Ex-Addicts Staying Sober Through Sport

Megan — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:01:03 +0000

CNN Heroes: Scott Strode overcame his addictions by becoming more physically active

Sitting Next to You

Megan — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:01:25 +0000

Ellen Confronts Her Bullies

Megan — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:29:29 +0000

Teen Wakes Up Sleeping Bus Driver

Megan — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:40:27 +0000

TACOMA, Wash. — An alert Washington state teenager likely prevented an accident when he woke up a sleeping bus driver who had nodded off at the wheel while entering an Interstate 5 onramp in Tacoma.