See Also:
Beginning of a FAMOUS Hero: The John Schneider Story.
Life Lesson #47 – Take Charge of Your Life.
Brice was home schooled by his mother until he was in the fourth grade. That’s when his family moved, and he started going to a new school in a new town with kids from his new neighborhood. So, it was in the fourth grade that he began learning a lot of things he didn’t know before—things about himself. He learned that he was fat. Nobody had told him that before. He learned that he was poor, and not very smart. He learned all those things from his new classmates! Everyday, some of the kids in the school would make fun of him and tell him things to make him feel bad about himself. To make matters worse, he began believing what they said. His grades started going down, too.
He was embarrassed and a little afraid to tell anyone, so he spent most of the fourth grade just staying to himself. Finally, near the end of the year, Mrs. Wallace, the counselor, called him in to talk. She had noticed what had been going on, and she told him to never be afraid to come talk with her. Well, that HELPED, but it took several more visits talking with her and it took a long time for him to start believing in himself again.
Brice is in the sixth grade now, and he is an honor student. He not only started believing in himself again, but he is now working with Mrs. Wallace to HELP encourage other students who are being picked on. AND he HELPS her with the younger kids who have picked up the habit of hurting others with their words and actions to teach them how it is so much better to HELP other people than to hurt them. He and Mrs. Wallace are teaching them how to become HEROES, and in the process Brice has become a HERO himself!
– Jim Lord