Teaching Kids Lessons Through Stories – Courage

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This is not a story, but a poem, and it is one you will want to pin, share, or tuck away for later. I have read this to my kids on numerous occasions when I know that they are going someplace where they will be surrounded by people who tend to influence or affect them in a negative way. My kids love this poem, and they love it when I read it to them.

This is a poem on courage, and wouldn’t it be the hope of us all that our children would have the courage to stand up for the things they believe in. That our children would stand up for what they know to be right. That our children would walk away from peer pressure and negative influences of all kinds.

I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Our Heroes

by Phoebe Cary

Here’s a hand to the boy who has courage

To do what he knows to be right;

When he falls in the way of temptation,

He has a hard battle to fight.

Who strives against self and his comrades

Will find a most powerful foe.

All honor to him if he conquers.

A cheer for the boy who says, “NO!”

 

There’s many a battle fought daily

The world knows nothing about;

There’s many a brave little soldier

Whose strength puts a legion to rout.

And he who fights sin singlehanded

Is more of a hero, I say,

Than he who leads soldiers to battle

And conquers by arms in the fray.

 

Be steadfast, my boy, when you’re tempted,

To do what you know to be right.

Stand firm by the colors of manhood,

And you will o’recome in the fight.

“The right,” be your battle cry ever

In waging the warfare of life,

And God, who knows who are the heroes,

Will give you the strength for the strife.