title: Green Beans and Legacies: Reflections for Raising Successful Children-Revised (Volume 1)
author: Mr. Robert P Newberry
description: Robert Newberry has built a professional legacy of excellence as an educator, counselor and therapist with multiple populations, settings and circumstances ranging from rural and urban upstate New York, to at-risk students in south Texas and teens of deployed National Guardsmen in New Hampshire. In doing this, he has:  Developed pioneering programming that helps young people from rural and urban areas achieve and excel in spite of personal loss, adversity, and challenges;  Lectured for numerous regional, state and national professional conferences, and public and private organizations on various themes relating to helping young people become resilient achievers and pursuers of excellence;  Authored numerous publications for parents and educators regarding raising and educating successful children. These include a subscription and web based bi-weekly column for educators and monthly column for parents which was the basis of the original Green Beans and Legacies. Robert Newberry claims, however, that his most important accomplishment is being married to his wife, Mary Jo for 44+ years. Together they have raised three great adult children who have enabled them to be grateful and enthusiastic grandparents of 10 tremendous grandchildren.
zlib_text: I had more cheering visitors than the last. Children come a-berrying, railroad
  men taking a Sunday morning walk in clean shirts, fishermen and hunters, poets
  and philosophers; in short, all honest pilgrims, who came out to the woods for
  freedom's sake, and really left the village behind, I was ready to greet with
  -- "Welcome, Englishmen! welcome, Englishmen!" for I had had communication
  with that race.
  
  
  The Bean-Field
  
  
  Meanwhile my beans, the length of whose rows, added together, was seven miles
  already planted, were impatient to be hoed, for the earliest had grown
  considerably before the latest were in the ground; indeed they were not easily
  to be put off. What was the meaning of this so steady and self-respecting,
  this small Herculean labor, I knew not. I came to love my rows, my beans,
  though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got
  strength like Antaeus. But why should I raise them? Only Heaven knows. This
  was my curious labor all summer -- to make 