Word of the Month
May

TRUSTWORTHY: Counted on, relied upon; to be worthy of trust
Vs. Unreliable
EspanÕl- fidedigno

**Please review the following suggestions for content and appropriateness to your child and/or student/s**

Suggested Reading:
The Little Fire Engine that Saved a City
Mystery of the Lost Letter
Claudius

Suggested Films:
Forest Gump rated PG-13
Young Mr. Lincoln not rated
Remember the Titans rated PG-13

Family Activity:

• Parents can have children help them around the house by bringing in the mail and newspapers, caring for pets, and doing other chores for their parents.

• Talk with your children about the importance of keeping promises.

• Set an example for your children by keeping your promises to them and expect them to do the same.

Class Activity:

• Assign students a regular task to do to help the class. This could be done by rotating a group of students whose job it is to pass out assignment sheets and notices home, or any other tasks done regularly.

• Meaningful Work by Randall Sprick and Mickey Garrison is a way for students to take responsibility for a job and discuss with them the importance of being relied upon to do their job.

High School Activity:

• Give every student a 3-5 minute presentation assignment at the beginning of class. Have one a day on a prearranged schedule. Topics could be assigned by the teacher or left to the student’s discretion.

• Everyone depends on others. Discuss why we are so interdependent, and what would happen if people stopped being dependable?

Quotes:

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
---Corrie Ten Boom

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
---Andrew V. Madson

It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
---Duc de La Rochefoucauld

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
---Red Auerbach

While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
---Ambrose Bierce

Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.
---Lavater

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust makes trust.
---Marianne Moore

Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in your friends and they will die and leave you; trust in money and you may have it taken from you; trust in reputation and some slanderous tongue may blast it; but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.
---D. L. Moody

If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.
---Osho

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
---Frank Crane

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
---Mother Teresa

If you think you can, or you think you can't, your right!
---Henry Ford

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
---Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

You cannot always control your circumstances, but you can always control your own thoughts.
---Charles E. Popplestone

Words are things and a small drop of ink
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.
---Lord Byron

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
---Will Cuppy

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
---Henri Bergson

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
---Theodore H. White

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most!
---Charles A. Lindbergh

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
---Corrie Ten Boom

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
---Andrew V. Madson

It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
---Duc de La Rochefoucauld

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
---Red Auerbach

While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
---Ambrose Bierce

Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.
---Lavater

Love all, trust a few.
---William Shakespeare

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust makes trust.
---Marianne Moore

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
---Lewis Mumford

Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in your friends and they will die and leave you; trust in money and you may have it taken from you; trust in reputation and some slanderous tongue may blast it; but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.
---D. L. Moody

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
---Agatha Christie

Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
---Henry Fielding

If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.
---Osho

Trust, but verify.
---Ronald Reagan

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
---Frank Crane

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
---Mother Teresa

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