In Search Of Heroes Spreads Good News About Everyday, Real-Life Heroes Who Deserve Recognition For Their Good Works

23. Incalculable effort and hardship over countless generations evolved into the life, values and happiness we take for granted today. Every day should be a celebration of existence. You are a masterpiece of life and should feel and appreciate this all the way down to your bones. Aspire to create, achieve and build onto the great value momentum taking place all around you.
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Ralph Zuranski: What is something parents can do to help their children realize that they, too, can be heroes and make a positive impact on the lives of others?

Dave Kekich: I never had children, so I am kind of preaching from Mount Olympus now. But I think just based on my observation, of basically my friends and family who did have children - and I am kind of an uncle to, a real uncle to some and a not-so-real, but an uncle in spirit to others - I think it starts with home education, because the things I think children should learn are not typically taught in schools, like entrepreneurship and rags-to-riches stories, great biographies, but especially values. You just don't seem to find those things in schools.

Also, you will never find the relationship between effort and reward, especially productivity and reward. That is something that has to be instilled in children at a very early age. I think that is going to make their lives so much easier to cope with, and it is going to make it so much easier to grow, to prosper, to walk on the right side of the road if they learn that early in life.

Understanding money is important and its value, because basically in economics, I think young people don't really see the value in money and don't really appreciate what it took to create it. And then the physical things: diet, exercise. Our children now are overweight, more overweight than they have ever been.

They are more out of shape than they have ever been, and a lot of that has to do with the fast food industry and processed foods. A lot of it has to do with the technology that I love so much, because a lot of kids are gamers and are not getting out and running and playing soccer. They are playing soccer with their video games.

I think that another thing that children should share in, that young people should share in, is self-development programs. I think that parents should participate with them in a lot of programs that are available today, and I think that would bond the parents with the children, and parents would learn a lot from it, too. Most parents don't really understand what children need to learn.