Thanks you guys! You all are awesome! I can’t even begin to describe to you the warm fuzzies I got from having instant feedback from your reading of the books. You all are awesome and I am so proud of the maturity and growth you all shared in your faith walks. It is not easy [...]
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Today I start another book study with the Beaumont Middle School FCA. I am very excited about this because they’ve already completed one on Never Alone. So this time they are reading Forever Family. I am so glad that they like my writing. I can’t even begin to tell you how it feels to get [...]
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I am so sad to say goodbye to the Beaumont Middle School FCA students! I so enjoyed hearing your comments about Never Alone. I can’t tell you what it did to my heart to hear you get excited about the things I had written. I hope you understand, as I told you as often as [...]
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Thanksgiving is that time of year when we recognize all the things we are thankful for. It is appropriate at this time to encourage teens to take an unselfish look at their lives. Teens need to sometimes be shown how good they have it by involving them in unselfish activities like feeding the hungry, or [...]
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On Friday, November 6th, before the Ky Book Fair, I had the opportunity to visit with students from Bondurant Middle School in Frankfort, KY. I asked them to do some creative writing, to write with their senses. They wrote about their favorite places and their favorite people. And, I am so pleased that some of [...]
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Justin couldn’t wait to get home to tell his mom. For the first time all year, school had actually been exciting today. Something unexpected interrupted the teacher while she gave her regular, everyday, same old, boring lecture.
Justin always hated sitting around the dinner table while his brothers shared the events of the day. [...]
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So you’ve found the cutest new outfit you want to wear to school. It shows off all your pretty curves and reveals a lot of skin. You know you look good.
So you go to school. The teachers have either sent you home because you are revealing too much, or they have told you to put [...]
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Teenagers! Either you love them or you hate them. But to understand them is the real gift. To watch them become young adults, that is the amazing part. The transformation is quite something to see. And to be a part of it is even better.
Teenagers go through many physical changes, and how we as adults [...]
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Sexual harassment in middle school looks and sounds very different than sexual harassment in the work place; however, it is just as detrimental to the psyche of the receiver.
Sexual harassment is a sign of bullying. It is a power play, a form of control. The more a receiver fights against it, often times the worse [...]
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So often middle schoolers get made fun of at school and don’t know why. Middle school is so hard! It’s just a time of self-discovery and self-awareness. Most middle schoolers are so focused on themselves they don’t realize that no one else is paying attention to them. Everyone is so worried about who is looking [...]
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