Dear Caprock Academy Families,

It is already September, which seems inconceivable as we literally just started school a scant six weeks ago! Autumn brings cooler weather and lots of great themes with it as pumpkin spice everything will let its presence be known very quickly, fall sports have already begun competition, and the leaves will be changing color sooner rather than later.

Our Virtues of the Month for September are Self-Control and Self-Discipline. In these areas one makes a “disciple” of himself becoming their own teacher, coach, and “disciplinarian.” There is much dismay in the world due to failures to control tempers, appetites, passions, and impulses. How often has any of us said aloud, “If only I had stopped myself!”  

Drawing again upon The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett, one of Aesop’s Fables, The Frogs and the Well, exemplifies the importance of self-control/self-discipline. Please read below, share with your child(ren) and discuss the importance of this important virtue!     

If you ‘d like something for your older children to read, consider The Fisherman and His Wife, The Kings and His Hawk, or George Washington’s Rules of Civility.

The Frogs and the Well

by Aesop

Two Frogs lived together in a marsh. But one hot summer the marsh dried up, and they left it to look for another place to live in: for frogs like damp places if they can get them. By and by they came to a deep well, and one of them looked down into it, and said to the other, "This looks a nice cool place: let us jump in and settle here." But the other, who had a wiser head on his shoulders, replied, "Not so fast, my friend: supposing this well dried up like the marsh, how should we get out again?"

Think twice before you act.

 

Still good advice!