Author: All About Me!
July 27th, 2008 by admin
How I came to write my first book on Parenting:
By Nancy
I have enjoyed putting this website and book together. Looking back has helped me take a look at everything we went through and how we came through it in one piece. I have two great daughters who are both working hard at creating their own paths through life.
I come from a long line of caregivers. My Grandmother was a teacher until she married and had children. Her sister was also a teacher. Two of Mom’s cousins were teachers. My mother was an RN most of her life. She worked in hospitals and in doctor’s clinics. When any of our neighbors got hurt, they always called on Mom to help. She was the unofficial neighborhood nurse. I grew up around doctor’s offices and spent lots of time in the back rooms waiting for Mom to get off of work. I was the chauffeur, babysitter, and general protector for my sister and brother when I was a teen.
I was a single parent for much of my daughter’s young lives. I have learned that single parenting is very tough. Not only that, life has been rough for me and my two girls. But we have managed to work our way through life’s experiences and learned many lessons in the process. Some families have been through tougher times than we have experienced and some families have had a much easier life than we have had.
My two girls and I have been through some tough times, and have learned a lot in the process. My girls have completely different personalities, different energies, and experienced different problems while growing up. I learned to use completely different techniques for each of them because they were so different. What worked for one child not work for the other child.
The three of us could probably write several long books about everything we have experienced. In trying to come up with an idea for my first book, I fell back on a request from a daughter to write down the things I did as a parent and how I taught them when they were little. I also felt the need to pass along some tips to another daughter to use with my grandchildren. My first book, Parenting Today With Respect and Responsibility, How to Teach Your Children to Live By the Golden Rule, is the beginning of fulfilling those needs.
I hope you enjoy exploring this website. I also hope you get some benefit from putting into action a few of the lessons, the communication exercises to do together as a family, the safety tips, the communication starters, reading some of the stories, and exploring the creative section from my parenting book.
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