Teachable Moments:

By Delcina Annakie

Are your teens in danger of losing their moral or ethical compass? Are they skirting the edges of defiance or deviant behavior? Try Teachable Moments, a book of eight relatable short stories encouraging tweens/teens to build character by doing what is right. Oftentimes teens do not succeed immediately, but some do after encountering difficult experiences, which can be used as teachable moments.
Teachable Moments reminds tweens/teens that their parents and teachers support them and wish them great success. They are encouraged to believe that they are created special, unique and beautiful, with talents and aptitudes for a particular purpose. The book advises young people in several ways to take their education seriously so that they can find and pursue their passion and lead successful and fulfilling lives, benefiting themselves and others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Delcina Annakie
• Release date: Apr 14, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311681041

Delcina Annakie

Delcina Annakie is an accomplished educator, human resource practitioner, mother of two daughters and grandmother of three children. She has written this book out of her deep desire to contribute positively to the lives of our youth as she is still involved with them as their teacher and her soul has been stirred to draw their attention to themselves as the hope of this present generation

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TEACHABLE MOMENTS

SHORT STORIES FOR TWEENS and TEENS

DELCINA ANNAKIE

Copyright © 2016 Delcina Annakie

All rights reserved.

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Smashwords Edition

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DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to my grandchildren

Rebecca, Deanglo, Sheranda

and all the children of the world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

STACEY'S DILEMMA

THE BOY WHO HATED SCHOOL

NATHAN AND THE SAGGING PANTS

SUSAN’S INAPPROPRIATE PHOTOGRAPHS

JOSEPH THE VIDEO FANATIC

THOMAS THE BULLY

LASHONDA’S PLEDGE

RUBEN AND DRUGS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I thank my family including my grandchildren, my daughters Christine and Sara, for their encouragement and support. I also thank my friend Blossom Lynch and my niece Althea Taylor for their assistance.

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INTRODUCTION

TEACHABLE MOMENTS, a book of eight short stories, encourages tweens and teens to build character by doing what is right. Many do not succeed immediately, but some do after encountering teachable experiences under difficult circumstances.

If you are a teen, I want you to know that your parents and teachers wish you great success. I believe you want that too. GOD CREATED YOU SPECIAL, UNIQUE AND BEAUTIFUL, with talents and aptitudes, for a particular purpose. Find your passion, pursue it to glorify God, benefit yourself and others and feel fulfilled and blessed.

As you read the stories of Raymond and other teens, decide if they got ‘it right', identify how you would act differently and share the stories with family and friends.

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STACEY'S DILEMMA

THE SEPARATION

Stacey Phillips hugged Lashonda Jones tightly, sobbed silently, dried her tears and whispered, I'm going to miss you so much.

Best friends from Middle School and now moving to different high schools, they were unhappy about the prospects. Fourteen-year-old Stacey Phillips active, plump, straight A student moved to Excelsior Magnet, and Lashonda to Dunrobin High. Gregarious Stacey, wondered how she would cope without Lashonda and her other middle school