A-Z 2013 the letter C

Who do you envision when you think of the word courage?

Maybe for you its a soldier, a police officer, advocates of civil rights or the local volunteer in your community? For everyone it's different that's what's so interesting about this subject; the stories of the people we see as courageous are as diverse as the people.

COURAGE: mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.

Do you think courage can come in small packages?

Here's a true story of something that happened to my grandson when he was in first grade. I proves you don't have to be a grown up to have courage; my "c" word.


The call came from my daughter and I knew something was wrong because she never calls mid morning.

There was an incident on the bus.

Here's what happened.
He was in first grade and took the bus to school every day. They had assigned seats.

On this day his regular seat mate told him he had a gun in his school bag. 

My grandson at some point excused himself and reported this to the bus driver who called ahead to the school. They had communicated to the bus driver not to take any action and to bring the kids in as if nothing was wrong. And that's what she did.

By the time the bus arrived at the school, the authorities, the school principle, the school guidance counselor, school psychologist were waiting. All of the other kids were removed from the bus and the child with the supposed gun's bag was searched and thank goodness there was no gun in his bag.

The school counselor questioned him (my grandson's seatmate) and he confessed that he indeed did tell my grandson he had a gun in his bag even though he didn't. I'm not sure if they ever did find an adequate explanation for this.

By now things had calmed down somewhat and the parents had arrived at the scene which had moved inside the school building.

The young boy turned to my grandson Adam and voiced his displeasure for "telling" on him.

What was interesting was my grandsons response which was so strong for someone so young.

He said, " last year the DARE officer that came to our classroom told us that if anyone ever told us they had a gun to tell a grown up remember?""And that's what I did because it was what he said cause someone might get hurt by a gun, remember?"

The little boy responded. " I'm still mad at you; you got me in trouble."

Then my grandson turned to his friend and said. " Well then you better get over it by lunch and meet me on the playground  at recess to play?" "OK?"

Boy's response. "Ohh K see you later."

Let me just say that it is my opinion that in today's society many adult's take the I don't want to get involved attitude.' I also think that many children today 'are afraid to tell' for fear of reprisals from their peers. I learned something from my grandson, he's a good kid who did the right thing. The right thing as we know isn't always the easy thing.

Sometimes it just takes courage to do it.

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