"Part 13: Read Carl Jeffrey Wright’s In Search of Heroes Interview and Become Inspired" by Ralph Zuranski
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Ralph Zuranski: What are the things that parents can do that will help their children realize they, too, can be heroes and make a positive impact on the lives of others?
Jeff Wright: I believe that parents today can do a number of very practical things. They can help their children realize their full potential as heroes and as people and as individuals who can be used by God.
Jeff Wright: Number one, limit the amount of television their children watch. I think television needs to be rationed for children. Why? Because it’s just too negative and it’s too hard to keep them on TVLand and the one or two positive channels that are there.
Jeff Wright: I believe more good could be done by simply measuring and monitoring the amount of media consumption, especially television, in our society than perhaps any single act.
Jeff Wright: I think parents should also be very actively involved in all of the information and media content that their children are consuming. It would be unthinkable, some of the lyrics and the music that any child can go into a Target or a Kmart or a music store today and buy and get ideas that are literally poisoning their future. Parents need to be engaged in that.
Jeff Wright: Parents need to make sure that their number one responsibility is to become a faith mentor to their children, to teach them to have a life of faith, a life of understanding, trust, and belief in God’s Word and Biblical worldview and to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. That is a critical part.
Jeff Wright: Jesus can be the greatest hero to those who accept Him and He should be. And I think that’s the role of the parents.
Jeff Wright: I also believe that it is very, very important as a parent to be deliberate, consistently deliberate, in bringing positive visions of what can be into the view of children. You do that by doing the ordinary things that aren’t so ordinary any more like taking children to museums and being actively involved with children in the social events of everyday life. You do that by being involved in their school and making sure that you are there as a parent to provide as many positive outcomes and experiences as negative that children will experience in the world today.
Ralph Zuranski: How do people become heroes?
Jeff Wright: It begins with a decision. You make a decision that you are going to go in a different direction or in a positive direction or that you are going to pursue a vision. It all starts with a decision.
Ralph Zuranski: How does it feel to be recognized as a hero?
Jeff Wright: This is a tremendous honor for me. I appreciate the work that you are doing in trying to identify heroes and I’m not sure as I look at the lives of some of the people that have been recognized as Internet heroes that I’m even worthy to be in the group. But I’m certainly honored and I appreciate that.
Jeff Wright: This is a credit really to what God has done in my life in allowing me to accomplish and to even have the mind to do some of the things that I’ve done. So I am humbled and appreciative.
Ralph Zuranski: How will being recognized as a hero change your life?
Jeff Wright: I’m going to be a little bit more careful about what I say and do because somebody may say, “Hey, I saw you on the Internet and there you are speeding down the highway.”