Kimberley Woodhouse – mother of 2 says, “We like to go back in our history and find the real heroes.”

Kimberley believes that every child needs an awareness of heroes, people who have overcome obstacles in life and gone on to do great things.

Kimberley says, “We can learn so much from the lives that they have lived and the examples that they have left.”

Those are especially important lessons for daughter Kayla, who battles an extremely rare disease that requires her to stay inside most of the time. So Kimberly home schools her, and they spend a lot of time reading about people who have overcome the odds.

Kimberley says, “It would be a much more positive aspect in education… if we could focus more on these positive people and what they have done.”

George Stahnke – counselor, Focus on the Family says, “In every segment of society, in every issue that has ever been raised, there has been a man or a woman that has called society to a higher level to bring about change.”

However, even good role models are only human – a fact that’s important for kids to understand.

George says, “The greatest men and women of history have all been imperfect people. They are heroic in one aspect of their life, and yet failures in other aspects, so understand that human nature is what it is, it is simply imperfect.”

Nevertheless, pointing out heroic behavior, as demonstrated in the present day and in history – gives kids something greater than themselves to aim toward.

Kimberley says, “Abraham Lincoln did this, or George Washington did this, I would really like to do something to change my world just like they did theirs, and I think that’s what it’s all about… what can I do to make this a better place for other people and to shine that light.”