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    Inspirational Parenting: Stories and Strategies for Parenting from the Heart
    Inspirational Parenting: Stories and Strategies for Parenting from the Heart
    Inspirational Parenting: Stories and Strategies for Parenting from the Heart
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    Inspirational Parenting: Stories and Strategies for Parenting from the Heart

    By Kate Miller

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    Inspirational Parenting was created to support parents in reaching a higher level of compassion, patience, and unconditional love. It is about forgiveness, moving forward, and starting each day anew. It reminds parents to take time for self-praise and laughter. It will make you cry by awakening a beautiful, deep sense of inspiration, as well as laugh at the spontaneous decisions your children make.

    Inspirational Parenting at its very core is written with love for parent and child. Its purpose is to assist the growing relationship between parent and child. It brings marvel and beauty into difficult and stressful situations. Its filled with tools to use immediately and affirmations to support the parent for months and years to come. Author Kate Miller has mixed real-life stories with allegories to create wonderful reading. This short, powerful little book will leave readers filled with renewed hope. This book truly looks at parenting as a great adventure.

    Inspirational Parenting: Stories and Strategies for Parenting from the Heart is a must-read!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateAug 10, 2011
    ISBN9781452537016
    Inspirational Parenting: Stories and Strategies for Parenting from the Heart
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    Kate Miller

    Kate Miller is a writer, editor and creative writing teacher. Following a career in journalism, she gained an MA in playwriting from Essex University and co-founded Pins & Feathers Productions with Richard Syms. As well as the three plays in this collection, she has written First Light - a contemporary Passion Play (2015) and Plenty of Punch (2016) for Pins & Feathers. Her other plays include: The Noose of Light, about Edward Fitzgerald, the 19th century poet, produced by WriteOn, performed at the ADC Theatre Cambridge; Circlemakers, a short radio play, broadcast on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, produced by Menagerie Theatre, Cambridge; Another Fine Mess, produced at the Queen Mother Theatre, Hitchin, Herts; and Shipton Blank, one of five winners in Equity / Writers' Guild / Directors' Guild competition, produced at Riverside Studios, London.

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      Inspirational Parenting - Kate Miller

      Copyright © 2011 Kate Miller.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      ISBN: 978-1-4525-3700-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4525-3701-6 (e)

      Balboa Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

      Balboa Press

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      1-(877) 407-4847

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      Printed in the United States of America

      Balboa Press rev. date: 8/8/2011

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Who Says Kids Don’t Come with a Handbook? x

      Chapter One

      Forgiveness

      Chapter Two

      The Role of Passion in Our Teen’s Life

      Chapter Three

      Embracing Uniqueness

      Chapter Four

      Making Safe Decisions

      Chapter Five

      Unconditional Love and Perseverance – A Perfect Partnership

      Chapter Six

      Children Learn What We Live

      Chapter Seven

      I Believe In You

      Chapter Eight

      Sometimes It Takes a Village to Save a Child

      Chapter Nine

      Taking Care of You

      Chapter Ten

      An Endless Stream of Hopes and Dreams

      DEDICATION

      Of all the beautiful moments I have had, and all that are to come, the greatest gift I have ever received is to be a mother.

      Mac, Nan Loves You!

      Mom, thank you for being my biggest fan.

      Thank you Card, friends and family for your support

      Cover by Artist Joan Marie I thank you dear friend.

      My thanks to Kim and all at Theeverythingcompany.com.

      INTRODUCTION

      Who Says Kids Don’t Come with a Handbook?

      Although there is humor and lightheartedness within the pages of this book, my desire to write parenting books comes from a much deeper place.

      I had my first child when I was nineteen. He was the most beautiful child I had ever seen, and this feeling was accompanied by a love that was so deep it was a bit frightening. Over the course of ten years I had three children.

      In this book I talk often about being a healthy parent. The qualities of a well-balanced parent set the stage for healthy parent/child adventures.

      I was far from a well-balanced parent. This was, of course, not intentional. Yet my children, the very beings I loved more than life itself, experienced my lack of skills. I felt like I was placed in a job that was more important than any I could be given, without being able to read directions or ask for help.

      My career working with children began many years ago, one job leading to the next, until I was working with kids and parents on a daily basis. It was in those countless hours of work that I truly understood what I believe to be great parenting.

      I write parenting books to help parents who are searching for ideas to strengthen their experiences with themselves and their children. I write parenting books out of an endless love for all children. I am not a therapist and this is not therapy.

      This book is here to give support to the tired heart and bring smiles to a child’s face.

      Today my children are young adults. They are among my heroes. They have built successful lives for themselves. They are kind and compassionate and make this world a better place. They are my favorite people to spend time with. I wish that I would have had this knowledge many years ago to fill the walls of our home. Today it is my joy to share what I have gathered with all who pick up this dear little book and read it.

      Lovingly,

      Kate

      CHAPTER ONE

      Forgiveness

      Forgiveness is freedom. I believe it is important to address it at the beginning of this book. It lets go of the old and welcomes the new. Forgiveness never leaves us where it has found us and it is a vital part of parenting.

      I can’t count the number of teenagers who have sat in my office in tears because they needed their parents’ forgiveness for something they had done. They explain, I don’t know how to move forward when my parents keep bringing up the past. I hate it that I hurt them, I cry at night when no one knows I’m crying. I would give anything to do that night over again. I don’t know what to do. When I look at my mom I feel so sad. When I wake up in the morning I think, ‘please don’t be sad today’. I want more than anything for my parents to be proud of me. I just want them to understand that I’m really sorry.

      I was once asked by a mother, Just how many times am I supposed to forgive my son? I told her, Always. Out of hundreds of teens I have worked with, I can’t remember one child who was not sorry for hurting their parents for whatever reason. Most are willing to work very hard to regain that trust.

      If you think about your teenagers and what they are trying to figure out right now, it makes it a bit easier to embrace forgiveness. We tell them to grow up and be responsible yet we also tell them that they are still children and they "will listen to what I have to say."

      In my life, I have been hit hard with lessons of forgiveness. One of the dearest children I have ever had the joy of knowing was assaulted by an adult when she was nine. At night I cried until my eyes ached so badly I could not open them. This experience taught me very strong, valuable, and inspiring lessons. I hold on to these as my gifts from divine grace and I now refuse to allow the actions of others to take over my life. While this was an extreme situation, forgiveness, even in less complicated forms, is difficult work to do. But when it

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