by Sherry Bentley-Short

Created on: April 30, 2008

Want to become a hero? Mentor a child. In today's society there are not enough people that want to take time out of their busy schedules to spend any time with a child. The instances in our nation of children with no real role models in their lives. The instances in this world of children that have no fathers out there taking care of them. Teaching them to build bird houses or how to mow a lawn, or learn how to work and build character. A real hero is a person that is willing to mentor and willing to help a child grow into a productive human and these are the real heroes. I have compiled a list of stories of men and women that have directly affected children in a way that they should make them in all humans eyes heroes.

Story One

This may sound a little strange but there is a man out there that has 5 children and every year at Thanksgiving he and his family sit down to a very nice dinner and they give thanks for all that is theirs. Then this man loads up his children in the family van and goes downtown and picks up a hooker. He then takes that hooker to a local Denny's or any other 24 hour eatery and feeds her a Turkey dinner. He then hands her 100 dollars and tells her to take the night off everybody deserves a holiday. The reality is that one would assume that in the hooking business a holiday would be a very busy day and it would not be a good day to take off. This man takes his children and goes and does this every year to show them compassion and human kindness and open them a little to the human condition.

Story Two

There is a man that spent ten years of his life getting up at the crack of dawn and pulling his daughter out of bed and taking her along the side of the highways and city streets with trash bags picking up cans. When she would complain he would say to her that they were doing their part to make sure that our environment stayed clean. He would spend until noon picking up cans not only cleaning up the city but teaching his daughter hard work and a love for the things that surround her. Then they would take all those cans to the recycle center and go sell all of those cans. Then he would take her out for a big mac or even a pizza. This man taught her the value of hard work and earning what you want.

Story Three

This is the story of a man who taught school his whole life and raised not only his children but raised many others as well. This man would keep his office door open to all of his students and at the time that his own children became students

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