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Responsibility is to be accountable for your actions.

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Heroes

Responsibility Hero: Thomas

My hero is my father. Through thick and thin in my life, no matter what, I can always count on my dad. Now I have a daughter of my own and pray that I can be half the parent he is to me!! He is a wonderful asset in the community and always gives a... Read more

Responsibility Hero: Laverne

Laverne is the founder and Executive Director of the Greater Peoria Parent Youth Outreach. She believes that ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things and that empowered people feel a responsibility to themselves and their communities. ... Read more

Responsibility Hero: Michael

My hero is just a simple man. Michael is the one who made a lot of sacrifice to his career since he was just 16 years old. He didn't know how to enjoy life; how to spend time with friends in those days because he had too many dreams to fulfill. He... Read more

Responsibility Hero: Helen

Helen was abused and had a very rough life as a child. She had been married four times and had three children by the age of 21. She finished high school, went to college and raised her children alone without welfare. She's a highly trained profess... Read more

Responsibility Hero: James

Daddy served in the Army and fought in the Korean War. There were some close calls but He made it home. Not long after he got back to the USA he married my Mother. May 13, 1964 my mother was killed in a car wreck, leaving my little brother age 3,... Read more
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Personal Stories

What is Responsability

When I was about 7, my Father gave me regular task to perform- taking out the trash. I noticed that my friend Bobby next door had the same chore , but always seemed to miss or forget? I thought that was not right and asked my Father about it one n... Read more

STUGO

In middle school, I was on student council. Every year our STUGO (Student Government) held a Talent Show. There was a week of auditions before the talent show. We had 10-20 kids from the local high school's STUGO come and judge the auditions and t... Read more

"Learning Responsibility"

The year was 1923, and Genia was 13. Genia's father had just died. In 1923 , if someone had an upstruction of the bowels , they would have to wait until morning for surgery. Genia's father didn't make it until morning , and died at the age of 39.... Read more

Haunted House CEO

I was in 8th grade, and every year the 8th grade science teacher set up a haunted house for our school's fall carnival. The year that I was in his class, he decided that he wanted to put me in charge of the set-up of the haunted house. I gladly ac... Read more

An Important Message

I was a responsible boy in my childhood, a straightly obedient person. However, as I grew up hundreds of experiences taught me to be dishonest, escape from responsibility and so on.. It happened when I was in INDIA. Now I live in the United Stat... Read more
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RESPONSIBILITY

Quotes
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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Jane Howard -
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Parents can only give good advice or put [their children] on the right path, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank Diarist (1929-1945);
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To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
Abbie M. Dale -
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière Playwright (1622-1673);
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Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.
Robert A. Heinlein Novelist, Short Story Author, Essayist, Screenwriter (1907-1988);
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Arianna 2 months ago from Mexico
I love this website, I use it all the time in my classroom when we talk about values. It has great videos too! Very short one but meaningful!
ivy 3 months ago from utica
I love this website! It is so good for kids and older to go to this website!
Scott about 2 years ago from Dallas
We need to leave behind: "I didn't know, I didn't understand, I didn't think" and take responsibility for our actions. It is time to take responsibility to know, to understand and to think for ourselves without blaming others or expecting others to do it for us.
Greg B over 3 years ago from Fruit Heights, UT
My father had this saying: You can pretend to care but you can't pretend to show up. George L. Bell 1927-2007