How To Be a Hero (Monday Moment ep. 579)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
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🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
“Who’s your favorite?”
Several years ago my boys asked me this question while I was driving them to school. They were talking about superheroes and sharing their favorites. The boys shared names like Green Lantern, Batman and a little rodent with a big mouth named Rocket Raccoon (don’t ask!).
After sharing that mine was Superman, I was stunned to learn that the fellas had reached the ripe old ages of 7, 9 and 11 without watching this classic.
That evening, we made popcorn and watched the movie as a family. The kids loved it – and him. Afterwards, they were all humming the Superman theme song as they flew down the hall toward their rooms.
While watching the movie, I realized that Superman wasn’t just showing me how to fight crime in a fictional world, but how to parent, serve and lead in the one in which we live. Here are four lessons from Superman for parents (interchange “parents’ with friends, spouses, leaders) that apply to us all.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast Monday morning moments with John O'Leary. |
| 0:18.8 | We record these so that you and I and our live-inspired podcast community |
| 0:23.6 | can begin our days and our weeks and awe and on fire with a burst of inspiration. We're going to |
| 0:30.8 | begin this one as we so often do with a question. You ready for it? Who's your favorite? Who's your |
| 0:37.1 | favorite? Several years ago, my boys asked me this |
| 0:40.9 | question while I was driving them to school. They were talking about superheroes and they were |
| 0:46.0 | sharing their favorites. The boys shared names, some of you may be familiar with like Green Lantern or |
| 0:52.8 | Batman or some little rodents with a big mouth named Rocket |
| 0:57.3 | Raccoon. |
| 0:58.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:58.8 | Don't ask. |
| 1:00.2 | And after sharing with them that mine was Superman, I was stunned and I'm going to be admit, |
| 1:05.7 | this one with you guys, disappointed to learn that my little fellows had reached the ripe age of seven and nine |
| 1:14.1 | and eleven without watching the classic film Superman. Parent fail, I know. Well, that evening, |
| 1:22.2 | we redeemed it. We made popcorn and we watched the movie together as a family and the kids loved it and they loved him. |
| 1:30.9 | Afterwards, they were all humming the Superman song that we all know and love as they flew down the hallway toward their bedrooms. |
| 1:38.9 | While watching the movie, though, I realized that Superman wasn't just showing me how to fight crime in some fictional world. |
| 1:46.7 | He was also showing me how to parent, how to serve, and how to love in the one in which we all |
| 1:54.1 | live, the real world today right now. So I want to share with you on this Monday morning message |
| 1:58.8 | four lessons from Superman for us parents |
| 2:02.9 | listening to my voice, but you can also interchange word parent with the word friend or spouse |
| 2:10.1 | or leader or servant. |
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