| Show School and Home by Dr Daryl Doryl J. J J McCarty Executive Secretory Utah Education Association Dare to do doA A major league baseball player named Lou Brock received a lot of headlines when he set a record of stolen bases in a season Forgotten in all the drama however was the fact that Brock set another record that same year That record was the largest number of times limes a base runner was called out trying to steal a base The lesson here is that practically every persons person's success is preceded by failure It takes daring to steal a base in the major leagues Brigham Young University's Glen Tuckett reminds us that Lou Brock didn't have to set his record of failures that year All AIL he had to do was sit tight and never try to steal a base But because Brock did something instead of just sitting there he stole more bases than any other player That story has hasan hasan hasan an application to child raising Children may not grow up to tobe tobe be he doers if we shelter sheller them from failure Because we love our kids its it's not easy to restrain ourselves from protecting them However one wise father when asked by a son to pay a considerable sum of money for fora a mistake the young man had made said this Son I f wont won't do that to you That father was telling his son that bailing him hint out would be denying him a chance to grown and know Of course no parent worthy of the title would refuse to throw a rope to the son or daughter who was sinking in quicksand The trick I is developing the skill of knowing when to watch and when to push the frantic button How No thinker has ever developed a textbook to cover every conceivable situation so were we're on our own most moot of the time But this much is fairly well accepted Those who never dare to do suffer from a pitiable paralysis The airplane that stays on the runway is usually out of danger But that's not what airplanes are built for lor |
