Omega Man

Today, "Omega Man" came to our school. This national speaker visited our school to share his message about bullying. Omega man believes you can be a "dream maker" or a "dream breaker".

These two volunteers demonstrated the bar of steel was real.

Using a phone book, as "The Book of Bad Choices", Omega man illustrates how we can't change the past, but we can rip up our book of bad choices and start making healthier choices today.

the bad choices pages cascade around him

Omega man also told us to have goals and dreams. You need to hold onto your dreams with two hands, even when "dream breakers" come with their lies, their distractions, their stealing, and their bad choices that try to take your dreams away from you.

 Omega man should us how we are all on the path to reach our dreams, "If you believe it, you can achieve it!" He used the iron bar he bent to show us how sometimes, we may find ourselves in a "new direction", and by changing our choices, we can be back on our path.

 Omega man had a volunteer empty a tube of toothpaste. The tube of toothpaste represented ourselves. The toothpaste was our words, choices, and actions. Once we share our words, choices, and actions, there is no way to get them back. Like toothpaste, they get on your hands and get smeared around. He encouraged us to be dream makers and make respectful choices with our words.

Omega man also explained how we can be on the path following our dreams, when a "deceptor" comes along. A deceptor is "one little lie" or one poor choice. It itself, it isn't very heavy, and we can still be working and moving toward our dreams. A deceptor, can start to lead us off track. Soon, we find ourselves with a "distractor". We have made Many poor choices. It is hard to move toward our goal with all of our bad choices weighing on us and slowing us down.

still able to move forward, our progress is difficult

 Fifth grade teacher, Mr. Wedin modeled a "desctructor". These are the significant bad choices that more or less stall us from reaching our dreams. In the end, deceptor; although the smallest of bad choices, is the biggest problem of all. Many deceptors can grow into distractors. Ultimately, YOU are responsible for the choices you make.

Mr. Wedin climbed on Omega Man's back for a ride.

You are the one responsible.

 Omega man had another illustration for us. He held up a dollar and asked who in the audience wanted it. Nearly everyone raised their hand. Then he "spit on it" ... rubbed it under his arm ... and stomped on it. Still there were people who wanted this dollar. Omega man asked, "Why?" Many members of the audience told him, because "it has value". Omega Man told us, that EACH OF US has value. We are important. We need to find the value in everyone.

"Find the value in everyone"

Omega Man wants us to be "HEROS" - "Help Everyone Respect Others".

Finally, Omega Man broke a baseball bat. Some of our students took a moment to compare their muscles.

Defending our school against bullying