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The Living Rope Lesson
By Kenny Kiskis
A simple but powerful activity that teaches students how their actions during the first 18 years of life impact the rest of their lives. Contributed by ClassroomProducts.com.
Submitted by Kenny Kiskis kennykiskis@classroomproducts.com
To demonstrate the impact the first 18 years have on the remainder of a person’s life, ClassroomProducts.com has developed the concept of “The Living Rope.”
To make a life rope you will need a 100 ft. rope. Simply color (wrap with colored tape, etc.) the first 18 feet, and you have your “Living Rope.” A 100 ft. rope gives the best impact, but you can use a 50 ft. rope, coloring the first 9 ft. A 25 ft. rope, coloring the first 4 ½ ft. A 10’ rope, coloring the first 18 inches.
The colored portion represents the first 18 years of life. The remaining rope shows how much life remains. 
Use the rope as a prop as you explain to your students:
Making good grades now could provide you with a built-in swimming pool 30 feet down the rope. Now they have 70 feet to enjoy it!
Developing a good work ethic could get you your first $1,000,000 half way down the rope. You have 50 feet left to spend that Million!
Good exercise habits your first 18 feet will make you look and feel your best and perhaps attract a partner with a similar healthy body! That gives you more than 75 feet to show off and enjoy your healthy body and your healthy, attractive mate.
Becoming a person with great values, pride, and integrity will allow you to better parent your doctor, lawyer, movie star or pro athlete children during the rest of your rope.
The first 18 feet are so important, yet such a small part of the entire rope (Life)!
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