Poetic Parenting: Bright Beginnings to Fabulous Futures

By Farrah M. Walters

Parenting is the most difficult and important job one can undertake. While the process of being a parent cannot be described as easy, the formula for success can be quite simple: put in the work when children are little and reap the rewards as they become teens and young adults.

Farrah Walters relies on fictional siblings, Emma and Ken, to impart words of wisdom as they reflect back on lessons from their younger days while facing tough decisions in their middle school years. Within valuable life lessons that involve their teachers, neighbors, friends, and some not-so-friendly classmates and peers, Emma and Ken learn about kindness, healthy habits, confidence, body boundaries, the importance of helping others, and the Golden Rule. Through the included anecdotes and poems, parents are guided to be proactive instead of reactive, to listen, and most of all, to unconditionally love their children, every day and no matter what.

Poetic Parenting is a delightful book of stories and poems that engages children and guides parents on the rewarding, challenging, and always changing journey of raising wonderful kids.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jul 6, 2017
• ISBN: 9781532026461

Farrah M. Walters

Farrah M. Walters is a high school language arts teacher who earned a bachelor’s degree from The College of New Jersey and a master’s degree from Nova Southeastern University. She is passionate about reading and writing. Farrah resides in New Jersey with her husband, two children, and pet snail. Poetic Parenting is her first book.

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ISBN: 978-1-5320-2645-4 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2017909593

iUniverse rev. date: 06/26/2017

For Mike, Imagen, and Keenan,

the reasons for everything I do

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Kindness

Healthy Habits

Confidence

Honesty

Body Boundaries

Reading for Fun

Prejudice

Discrimination

Everyone Matters

Helping Hands

Temper, Temper

Hands to Yourself

Safety First

Stay True to Yourself

The Golden Rule

Preface

As I watch my children face harder decisions as they enter their teenage years, I can’t help but think back to when they were much younger. I remember the guidelines and rules that my husband and I set, the lessons we tried to impart. And I hope that these lessons carry them through, bring them to a place where they can look in the mirror and like what they see and feel good about the people they are becoming. To me, that is the purpose of parenting: to create people that add to the goodness in this sometimes awful world, people who have that feeling inside that tells them they did their best and above all did what was right. I believe all of the moments when we tried to show them what was right, in addition to telling