Courage

Courage is a willingness to face your fears with determination.

Courage is facing your fears and walking through them. Many refer to courage in terms of deeds. It is not just deeds. Courage is a way of life. Courage is when you are afraid but you face your fears and keep on going. You don’t have to be heroic or big and tough. It just means you don’t give up. It means you stand up for what is right, even if others around you are trying to talk you in to something you know is wrong. It means you speak the truth, even when friends may get mad at you. Courage is having a belief in yourself. It means you will try things even though they are hard.

I see students and staff daily at J. H. House who show courage. Let me give you an example:

Juan spoke the truth about something he did that he should not have done. He had the courage to admit his mistakes and the courage to learn from it and not make the same mistake again.

Now you need some strategies to develop courage. Remember the book, “The Little Engine That Could”? He kept trying and kept trying and kept trying. You can keep trying when things are a little hard.

Sometimes if you are afraid you can say things to yourself to give you courage. Examples are:

……….I can do this.

……….I’m calm and in control.

……….This is just my imagination. I will not be afraid.

……….Just say no!

……….I’m sticking to my beliefs!

……….Good friends would not try to make me do something I know is wrong.

……….It’s the right thing to do and I will not back down!

If you repeat calming phrases to yourself, it can help you build your courage! Sometimes just taking a deep breath and moving forward can help.

Now can you spotlight J. H. House students and staff who show courage?  Also, please share if you have some good strategies that help you have courage.

Comments

[jadae]

Thank you for being a great principal.
You have been been doing good. Well Iwould like to write more, but I have to leave,bye.

[Kristian]

What you say is ture! Courage means all those things. Soidiers are also have courage. Bold and brave mean the same thing as courge!

[mike]

I think courage is a good characature to have.

[Kendall]

MY sister shows alot of courage and others should too.

[Kyle]

Kendall has courage for not being scared of being short.

[Taylor]

You are such a wonderful principal. I am new to this school and I think it is a great school.All of the teachers and students show me courage so I will get to know where things are.I started this school Jan.31,05 and I almost know where to find things by myself.I would like to thank my class for teaching me to know the rules of this wonderful and great school.Thank you for telling me about courage Mrs.Hooper.i think you are the best.Well got to go.Bye!

[Marissa]

I think that your comments on Courage are going to be very helpful to many people.Some students will use the phrases. All that I know is that it will help my future.

[Monica]

I think I can cause they look so brave and they would do any thing face their fears.

[Adrieana]

Will I think that telling the truth and haveing good Courage will help you get to the thigs that you want to do.

[Maria]

this story was a very good one. I liked your examples they were very good.I think you are right about what you said about the story. Sincerly,
Maria

[Angel]

Thank you Mrs.Hooper for that information. I will use your advice when i need to. Oh yeah, I got a problem on the bus. These kids are making fun of me on the. I think I have enough courage to stand up to them. I'm scared because they might try to beat me up. Could you write back fo some more things I could use to stand up to them. Please right back as soon as possible.
Thank
You,
Mrs.Hooper

[estefany]

Well first of all I want to tell you Thanks for giving us such good courage information. I think it is really nice that you have your own weblog and in that case you can tell students new and save things they should do here and at home.
students useuly do what their friends say and what hteir friends say may not be the right thing. Maybe your blog can show them what is right and what they should not do. they just need someone to tell them what the should and should not do.
When Juan said the truth it had to take courage even though he knew he was going to get in troblel.
P.S. keep telling students the right things to do. I know they are going to listen someone so spiecal like you BYE TAKE CARE!!!!

[Shelby]

I think that you nmight be able to run for president one day. No, really, I really do.
I know some people that show courage everyday. Firemen and women show a different kind of courage. I believe that you are a powerful speaker.

[jose]

Iknow what your talking about. I see people
being brave.If everyone was like that we woulden't hav any problems.

[Graciela]

Mrs.Hooper,I want to talk about Our wonderful school.The most I like about our school is our counselor,MRS.HALLORAN!I think she's the best because,she's always doing her BEST HOORAY!

[mark]

Dear MS.Hooper I think you are right ,and i am happy that you writen this.

[mark]

Dear MS.Hooper I think you are right ,and i am happy that you writen this.

[kassandra]

I think it's important to have courage.Courage helps you out even when you don't know it!

[Victor]

I liked the your comment Msr.Hooper.The letter that you wrote it a was good letter.
Msr.Hooper thank you for the comment that you wrote.

[Casie]

hi kids and Mrs.Hooper! I guess you are right but just one thing your missing.If you have courage you have beliefand bravery.......but i can go up to someone and i'm scared. I shoot them is that courage. I know it was a brve thing to do but it is not

[jeef]

who cares about curage