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The Tip is 'Teach Grandchildren' One day, while I was on the Made In America Secrets site my granddaughter noticed and asked me what I was doing. I told her about the Big Secret and as I explained, she began to ask me more questions. After several minutes she left my office to play with her little sister. Months had gone by and until recently, I had forgotten about that moment. She was visiting again and I was talking to her about buying a custom printed T-Shirt. She immediately told me about a website that I could use to buy one. Wow I thought, she is only eight years old and already teaching me. The most amazing thing then happened, she said "Pops they sell Made In America T-Shirts". Thanks to her I purchased six custom Made In USA T-Shirts. Her name is Britton, she understands the Big Secret and I love it when she tells me her Little Secrets! Now she is ten and writing a screenplay called Mertastic. It is a story about a mermaid. Recently, she was visiting our house again and using my computer. She called me to come into my office and of course I came to her because that is what grandparents love to do. One of the reasons I love to be with her is because it is always interesting to see what she is up to. This time, she needed a mermaid tail for her movie, so we began to look around using Google. Her mother is a talented seamstress and will make the tail so we were looking for fabric that would be satisfy my granddaughter's vision of her mermaid tail. Once again we began to talk about Made in America and therefore started to investigate the country of origin of the fabrics she was considering. Because of that experience Made in USA fabric is now one of Made in America Secrets products. Thank you, Britton. Buying Tip Continued - Read more on Made in America Products by Heros 4 US Dr. Dennis Denenberg The cornerstone of my work is 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet! which I co-authored with Lorraine Roscoe. It is a 2006 Notable Children?s Trade Book, it was featured in USA Today on March 20, and I was interviewed on CNN Live in April about my award-winning work. It is an interactive ?kid-friendly? book that motivates kids (and adults) to explore the lives of heroes at home or at school. Each page includes an important quote by each hero, a short biography about each hero, photographs, a section where readers are encouraged to extend their learning, and other books about that hero. Over 50,000 copies have already been sold! The list of 50 heroes profiled is available here. You can look inside to view a sample profile of Roberto Clemente (in pdf format) here. Reviews of the book are available here. Information on how to order the book is available here. Dr. Denenberg is also the author of two additional books dealing with real heroes: -Toward A Human Curriculum: A Guide to Returning Great People to Classrooms and Homes (Trillium Press, 1991) -Hooray for Heroes! Books and Activities Kids Want to Share with Their Parents and Teachers, co-authored by Lorraine Roscoe (University Press, 1994) * Numerous articles about the importance of heroes * Two chapters: Heroes and Heroines and Children Belong Together in Educational Innovation: An Agenda to Frame the Future (Charles E. Greenawalt, editor, University Press of America, 1994) and The Role of Heroes and Heroines in the American Story in Building a Community of Citizens: Civil Society in the 21st Century (Don E. Eberly, editor, University Press of America, 1994) |
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