Producers’ Pick | Brad Meltzer: The Significance of Teaching Your Children the Right Values

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I am I am pay which is that my kids have loved the title itself.

Every title that how many kids you have so I've three kids, which is you know, I wrote these books right is is my I was tired of my kids looking at all these people on Instagram were famous and always over what is right and and overpaid athletes and all the people he's all the people you see on Instagram as our kids wipe our kids being fed garbage today every single day and we as Americans have to fight back.

As parents we have to fight backing them better heroes to look up to. So we started the ordinary people change the World Series start with, I'm a millionaire heart. I am Abraham Lincoln, I am Rosa Parks I am George Washington and give them better heroes to look up to where now the Tolman the number one series teaching American history to this young age group and I'm so proud to unveil now.

And of course of no starting with I am Dolly Parton is our newest book that comes out right now right who's going to the rug reluctantly going to the rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame. I love that it's that only she can be say I don't want to be. I don't need your nomination and they still nominator and still good and they will bring her Hanover item 1 over. Of course, so why Dolly Parton is a country music store that's done so much charity work also has Dollywood yuppie mage would put put you into that and I think for me, you know what I love in this book, as you see Dolly Parton is a real person and she's a real human being with cut up lift her up on that pedestal but we do a disservice to our heroes. We do that in your when Dolly Parton was born she was so poor that her father paid the doctor for delivering her with a sack of cornmeal and it was her mother who gave her love of books. She says that when the first books Dolly Parton loved as a kid was a little engine that could, and natural. Dolly Parton is she's a little engine that could. So they told her you know Juergen have to wear just read no regular costumes and she was like no underwear amazing customs. He said you're just have to sing country songs she song to sing songs for all audiences, they said you know you're going to be a musician, she's like, no, no, I'm to be a movie star.

I would open up Dollywood my own amusement park on the starkest charity. The imagination Library and give books to millions of kids who can afford them with the first book, the gateway was prime but the little engine that could.

And I want my kids to have that lesson. No Dolly Parton when she was a little girl she was. Her mom made her a coat out of a patchwork of of scraps of fabric and she thought it was so beautiful and she goes to school and all the kids say it's so ugly and the secretive Dolly Parton and no one realizes is she was really felt alone and lonely. She felt different than everyone else, where she was from. No one wanted to go across the world, but she always wanted to know what's on the other side of the mountain and what I love about her is she had this dream.

The butterflies actually fly her there.

I want my kids to know that being a dreamer is a good thing right. I want them to know your dreams can take you anywhere and when you read these books you read about Dolly porn you see again that you go to her concerts. She doesn't just you know it's you have rich people there poor people there city folks and country folks. You have gay and straight. You have old and you have young you have black-and-white and everyone in between she judges nobody should accept you for who you are as long as you're being yourself in our culture right now. I want my kids to have a hero who says know what we could use a little bit more sunshine in the world have but I am pay. I am pay is one of the great architects. Many people don't know is our first Asian-American hero. He designed the Louvre in Paris and what his whole book is about is about looking at life differently so he used to go through life. He saw you know skyscrapers being built. He was like that skyscraper is like a giant beautiful plant that comes out from the ground. He said I want to be an architect on the bill buildings so he builds the Hancock Tower in Boston glass falls out of it and smashes everywhere and it's not all perfect right life is not all perfect. We have to remind our kids. You can fail. Sometimes, but he builds JFK's library in Boston. Many of course goes the Louvre. One of things. This is obvious on radio, but I'll show you here in the book because is an architect we want to teach kids get a look at life differently so will stream you and I know every strand vaccination could see the summit opened up a and so you can see when you open up the part of the Louvre. It's not just a regular book, but you can see now, it pops up so it's a pop-up book in IM I am pay because we said we want kids to see everything differently have a new perspective on life and I'll leave you when we talk about him.

This is my photo it looks a little like the Apple store on $60. It does actually look like that but he says like you to read this one park. Is it so good.

It says your future is yours to construct brick by brick. You can design it shape it and build something beautiful build something meaningful. Build something that expresses who you are and he says I am.

I am pay.

I know you are the architect of your own life and I need my kids to know they have that power.

So we picked to counter creative people.

We have so many you know today in the world. There's so many Hollywood people are kids look up to and so many music stars are kids look up to, who are doing nothing good, righteous, given our kids the wrong message every day. I said can I pick two creative people will sure kids the beautiful things you can bill with your creativity and I thought Dolly Parton is of course the perfect choice. So, I am Dolly Parton know for my kids was they were begging me for so long to do. I am Dolly Parton. They were like Dowling and and Dolly Parton and her team was so nice to us when we were doing the book were helpful and kind of giving us details and no one else hatting sending us pictures we can get all the details right in amazing artist Chris Ellie helpless has a sort style that's like it's almost like Charlie Brown meets Calvin and Hobbes, and so kids love these books. We have kids, you know from birth people by am the roof like four years old to 12 years old and I love the people build libraries of our real heroes for their kids and their grandkids and nieces and the people run away from history. A lot of people run away from public schools that that's exactly right about a million people dropped out of public school during the pandemic and going to private education which assemblies you write. Check your paying school taxes and then you write a check and those teachers don't get paid for the most part enough which really forgot you have a curriculum that you can rest assured, if I go to work. My kids got to be willing to hate the country. While that, you know, one of the lesson. The first book we did was I'm Abraham Lincoln. Why because I want my kids to know to see this story that Abraham Lincoln lost 123456 of eight elections and still said I'm gonna keep going forward right that he was this guy who as a little boy.

My favorite store and I'm Abraham Lincoln on November told this one here is one is a little boys 10 years old. He still love animals and I could tell my kids the OU is 1/16 president.

I can tell about the emancipation proclamation and all that stuff varies on the five dollar bill, but I tell him my kids the story when Abraham Lincoln was a little boy he loved animals so much. He saw a group of boys plan with turtles and he says I love turtles. He races over to the boys and they're not playing with the turtles of putting hot coals on the backs of the turtles to make them run faster torturing the turtles and Abraham Lincoln sees that and he's just horrified and he does know what to do and I don't care for 10 years old or you're 50 years old. Sometimes it's hard to do the right thing but someone has to. And in that moment, Abraham Lincoln says them take the call off the turtles leave him alone and my son to this day sleeps with an Abraham Lincoln doll that one of our readers made for us based on our book. This Heath realized Abraham think it is a great man and I are George Washington book is one of our top selling I am George Washington on the best books we've done because where like. Here's what American hero looks like, and if we don't take that. You know what your kids in a picture is what he likes and all you gotta do it via values and ethics is burned into young.

The issues fall into the category of right and wrong is a gray area there but if you have values and ethics in that foundation. That's the man or woman you will elect.

But that's the person who should represent you. That's a procedure teacher. Did you need to know the daily planner. I need to know the quality of the person and the product that might make your absolute right might my favorite line and I am George Washington says leadership is not about being in charge, it's about taking care of those in your charge and I need my kids what these but everyone think so. Their history books.

The ordinary people change what's has never been about history of values right to teach my kids the right values on the back of every book it says that value it says on the back of. I'm a million hearts as I know no bounds on the back of I am Abraham. Lincoln says I will speak my mind and speak for others on the back of I am. I am pay it says I will always be the architect of my own life and on the back of I am Dolly Parton. It says I will see the light that shines within you.

Night reminding kids you need to put that sunshine in your heart and have that like love for other people as opposed that cynicism that's been fed to our kids every day and if you can give your kids the values in these.

I am in the IM book series to meet us from try to do that Haran is give my kids those values so they know the right. Personal look up to, as opposed to the Riley around the playground or that a college view have to worry about the day-to-day because you know they have the framework and foundation to make the right decision doesn't mean you always will.

But I gave them the framework blank IMP: walking through everything I only had a few much hands-on I always say you're building the pillars of the foundation of their of their emotional, support system, and if you teach them what they wrote.

It should be so hard to know what is good and what is bad and what we do in these books. We always show you the hero when their little we show Dolly Parton. She's a little girl and she feels different than everyone else, inch and kids are laughing at her because the close she's wearing. We have a story and I am Dolly Parton that it was Christmas and her dad wants her by her mom wants to buy his wife, Dolly Parton's mother, new wedding ring, a proper wedding ring and he says to the family, you know, we can afford presents for everyone this year. I can't by individual Prez guy got a by mama wedding ring and Dolly Parton says, wasn't bad for us was beautiful because we saw the sacrifice. My dad was making for my mom. He gave all of us.

One group gift was chocolate covered cherries, but I want people to hear that Christmas story and I am Dolly Parton and teach their kids. You know what, it's not about buying a million presents about doing good, for those we love. That's a lesson our kids near the here's another lesson doesn't go as deep as those individuals but I think watching Ukrainians as imperfect as the democracy is fight for something that we take for granted freedom gave lip made America recalibrating said stop thinking about us in the civil of the verbal Civil War were going through right now the weight where they want. There's a clear bad guy good guy.

He knows all the people just want have the right to have a imperfect democracy and are being invaded by an evil person who wants the exact opposite, and all are asking for is the weapons to let them fight and do what the Afghans were unwilling to do now that that is stand up for them and lesson will as you and I ski might be your next book. I think I am to I would write it. I would write a no and and you and I were talking off the air. We were saying that your you look at this and you need and we were saying that no right now we are in this verbal Civil War, but in that moment when Ukraine happened it was one of the few times were Democrats, Republicans, to my surprise said no that something bad happening to people that are good and we gotta step up and the reason why I think Americans reacted that way is because we as kids in those generations. Above us, of course, as kids were taught the right values. We were taught you stand up when you see someone being picked on that when you see someone being a bully. You gotta stand up there like like Abraham Lincoln does not story I told you stands up to those boys and says no you can't do that. Someone has to step up and again for me.

If we put those values in place when your kid, you can anticipate every your kids can walk into but when they watch that Ukraine so I tell my kids I want to look at this. I want to see the bully I want to see is being picked on. That's your opportunity. It's exactly what we try to do in the drilled ending further know you did you learn in different religions turn the other cheek, but if Ukrainians turn the other cheek and the West turns the other cheek, they lose their head at certain certain times. You can't and that's the way it is. I wish people rational human beings and you can debate them, but there's a rational actors through history from Stalin killing millions of his own people to Hitler. We've seen this before.

If you don't stop them early. If you pretend as if they could be rational. You have no excuse. You should expect millions more to die because you have never had a Bible says yes eternity but also says you have to take care of the poor. You have to take care of those who need it. You have to take care of those consumers major Helms enemies. Nothing else Avco a means that you have to step up if you don't step up and help those who need help where we have huge problems and we all know that the other thing that I think heartening is that you do have a subject in today's complex world of of example of a hero right we don't know where he stands on Roe V Wade, we don't know where he stands at America's second amendment, but we know right and wrong would a great leader is and we also know that not many people anticipate he had this in a maybe his parents right at this former actor this this new to the political game and certainly knew the military knows Russia well enough to knows what he's up against tried originally to reach out and say listen, I could probably breach this breach between us and you and Pacheco are the for the former leader but I want about 30 points legal advice perform in Moscow. It when he realized he couldn't do that. Dates perceive that is weakness. So foods like at this little guy I Caleb at his hands out to me. So that is what were taught but then we've said okay now the law of the jungle. I have to survive this jungle in order asking for his armaments. That's it well and I also think what's really interesting is that when you look at some you know I believe this about US presence. I believe that this about him is what makes a great leader is not your stance on a particular political issue.

What makes a great leader for every president history when we judge who are great presidents are. It's when there is a crisis, how did you react that is Abraham link it hasn't. You know he has no idea what the Civil War is going to be, what slavery is. He thinks that there is the obvious of these issues, we know that that there they hate him so much when he selected, but he has no idea what he's really getting into, but the Civil War calms and he has to deal with it George Washington to begin of the founding of God has no idea what the country is going to be what the crisis can be, or even of course in the Revolutionary war was walking into. It is not the training that the British military has, but he is up for the challenge when it presents itself and that is exactly what's happening every crane he snapped up in this moment. I know in your books does get into this, but people at home.

She realizes much as we laud George Washington as much as Internet and other nations study George Washington they wanted him out only guy won't fight this guy keeps losing battle lesson. The first bad overspending.

The first battle we did this in one of our nonfiction books were the first battle George Washington fights in the United States. He gets pinned down to the East River by the British wealthy will tell a story. This can win is the best is the strongest gets pinned down though don't finish yet when we come back. Brad Meltzer finishes that story. But most importantly, pick up his two books I am pay and I am Dolly Parton and Brad the best place to get them as you get them on Amazon your local bookstore anywhere you want there for sale everywhere back and educating, entertaining and enlightening.

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Weather updates throughout your busy day subscriber list. The metal influx is the largest stucco or wherever you did your projects the more you listen more, you'll know Brian kill made the woman Brad Milton's arrived at the scene presence back up in Brooklyn and he's about to be challenged by very slow moving you want to destroy it, and this is this is one of the first great battle George Washington fights or worries him back against me is the East River behind them is got the British in front room. This is the moment that George Washington should die.

It should be over. We all think you know George Washington's greatest hero ever lived, but in the beginning he can have the experience of the British military had so is pin down, and it should be done and and tour point before were talking the great leaders react to moments right and in that moment George Washington is the best thing he always does is he improvises.

And in that moment. We were talking off the air fog rolls in the middle of the night, and he plans a daring escape and they start commandeering all the boats they can find along the east of earlier boats, barges, when we think of anything of if it floats they grab it and one by one, he starts putting his men on these boats and selling the safety but the thing in this in the great part of the story is as George Washington won't get on any of the boats until everyone is safely across and not just as high level military people, but even the low ranking men and that's where it says is a set I wrote this in my adult book. The first conspiracy, but I also wrote and I am George Washington. Salina told before leadership is not about being in charge about taking care of those in your charge.

I want my kids to learn that lesson in the I am George Washington. We all need to learn that lesson. I love the fact that George Washington stands for the when the sun came up. The fog was still there, allowing them the old to get out because the water initially was too rough to for those barges to come through. Sometimes in life you have to retreat to fight another day's heroic move was to retreat to get out of prison.

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