CommonCentsFun Facts

About Dr. Suess!

His real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel

and he was born in Springfield, Missouri

on March 2, 1902.

He published 43 children’s books,

including Horton Hears a Who! (1954),

The Cat in the Hat (1957),

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957),

Green Eggs and Ham (1960), and

The Lorax (1971).

Mulberry Street made famous in Dr.

Seuss’ first children’s book And to Think

That I Saw It on Mulberry Street!, is less

than a mile southwest of his boyhood

home.

During World War II, he published more

than 400 political cartoons criticizing

Hitler and Mussolini.

Dr. Seuss’s honors include two Academy

awards, two Emmy awards, a Peabody

award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal,

and the Pulitzer Prize.

Suess pronounced his name to rhyme

with “voice”, not the way most people

prononce it to rhyme with “juice”.

He died of oral cancer on September 24,

1991, at the age of 87.

for Kids & Teens!

SHELBY COUNTY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION’S

NCUAYour savings federal insured to at least $250,000 and backed

by the full faith and credit of the United States Government

National Credit Union Administration, a U.S. Government Agency

Check out our website @ ShelbyCountyCU.com

MARCH 2015 NEWSLETTER

Top Dream Jobs for Kids!What do you want to be when you grow up? Most kids are dreaming of jobs that will pro-vide excitement, fame, money and an ability to do something good for others. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, here is the top 15 careers kids are dreaming of and the average paycheck that goes with each job.

Astronaut$64,724 to $141,715

Musician$31.94/hour

Teacher$30,750 - $57,770

Actor$35.97/hour

Dancer$20.04/hour, $41,680/year

Firefighter$47,850

Police Officer$57,770

Writer$68,420

Detective$50,780 - $77,860

Athlete$75,760

Veternarian$93,250

Scientist$77,620 - $114,150

Pilot$80,140 - $111,960

Lawyer$130,880

Doctor$190,060

NO EXCUSES!NEVER TEXT AND DRIVE!

It can wait.A texting driver is 23 times more likely to get into a

crash than a non-texting driver. The average text takes a driver’s eyes off the road for nearly five seconds.

When traveling at 55mph, that’s enough time to cover the length of a football field. Texting while driving is

essentially driving blind.

How Did Credit Unions Start?In 1846, major crop failure and famine hit Germany. To help families in need

of food, an attorney named Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch organized a coop-

eratively-owned mill and bakery that sold bread to its members at substan-

tial savings. Schulze-Delitzsch took this cooperative notion to address the

needs of credit, too. In 1850, he organized the first cooperative credit society,

known as the people’s bank. Instead of having to borrow money from banks

at high interest or from seedy loan sharks, the co-op showed that people

could have a better standard of living by pooling their savings and making

loans to neighbors and co-workers.

The first credit union in the U.S. opened in 1908 in Massachussets to provide

credit to working class families. During the 1920s, credit unions became

increasingly popular. Families had more money to save and could afford

products like automobiles and washing machines. They, however, needed

a source of inexpensive credit to purchase these goods. The popularity of

credit unions grew because commercial banks and savings institutions

generally showed limited interested in offering such consumer loans.

Today there are 100 million Americans who are members of credit unions!

Screen Time LimitsScreen time is the amount of time you spend using video games, tele-

visions, smart phones, computers and other devices with screens. The

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) reports that many kids in the

U.S. average 7 hours of screen time per day! That’s two entire days each

week! That’s almost a third of an entire year, each year. Yikes! Neu-

roscientist Daniel Levitin explains that screen time, especially when it

involves little snippets of your attention like when you text or are on

Facebook, can be an actual addiction, making it extremely difficult to

set limits for yourself. The parts of your brain that seek novelty (some-

thing new and shiny) enjoys it (really, really enjoys it) ... so much so that

it triggers a chemical in your brain sending a signal that it keeps want-

ing more. That’s tough to overcome. That’s why most of us like to keep

checking our email, texts, and see what’s new on social The AAP recom-

mends no more than an hour or two every day. And none for children

under the age of two. To have a healthy lifestyle, it really is important to

pay attention to your screen time usage and to set limits.

The government of Taiwan just passed a new law that will fine parents up to $1,500 if their kids are using too

much screen time!