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When a storm is coming, all other birds seek shelter. The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it. So, in the storms of life may your heart be like an eagle’s and soar above.” – Author Unknown

How to Practice Patience

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Four simple ways to practice patience. Life requires patience.  Patience leads to success.  But how can you develop patience? Here are four strategies for developing patience. Practice emotional survival It is easy to become addicted to expressing anger and frustration Read more…

Have Patience and Be Successful!

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Encouraging you to understand why patience is important on near a river.

Patience is one attribute of a successful person. Successful people have something in common–patience. We are still waiting for tires we ordered a few weeks ago.  This situation has allowed me  to practice self-control. I continually remind myself that I Read more…

Feel Better Soon!

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Encouraging you to feel better soon on near a river.

A few things that make me feel better I am feeling ill. I feel rotten today.  I have felt rotten for the past few weeks. We have a vehicle that unfortunately requires special tires.  And our tires wore out during Read more…

“FEAR”–Face Everything and Rise

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Veterans, How Can I Be Happy?, How Can I Improve My Country?, Overcome Depression, Training for Success May 1, 2024

There is a time to stay out of harm’s way, and a time to “FEAR”– face everything and rise! My definition of fear is “face everything and rise”. Until I was almost four years old, I heard loud violent arguing Read more…

An Example for Your Children

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Encouraging you to teach your child by your example on near a river.

Teach your children key principals for success through your example. When I was growing up, my role models—my Sunday School teacher, my grandmother, my neighbor, my teachers in school—set examples for all children around them.  Their examples taught me these Read more…

Teach a Child Well

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Teach a child well.  Enable him to be successful. My husband has had some successful friends. One friend, Jim, was a manufacturer’s representative. Jim and his wife Lisa had ten children. All ten children were well-mannered.  They did chores and helped each Read more…

Why Readers Become Leaders

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, School Plans, The Power of Reading, Training for Success May 1, 2024
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Children who read become leaders! Children who read have a definite advantage as adults, especially in today’s business world.  They become leaders. Readers turn into leaders for five reasons. Better thinkers A reader acquires knowledge. Knowledge enables you to keep Read more…

Helping Children Cope with a Traumatic Event by Marie Miguel

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, How Can I Be Happy?, How Can I Change the World?, Overcome Anxiety, Overcome PTSD March 6, 2020

Help a child cope with a traumatic event. Children certainly experience events on their own level just as acutely as adults do. Because they still lack the coping mechanisms and perspective that only life experience brings, an event that may Read more…

Enjoy a Successful Marriage

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, Training for Success March 6, 2020
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Five keys to a healthy marriage. Getting married is romantic. But how can you keep a marriage healthy for life? In 2015, researchers interviewed 700 people married for 40,000 years collectively. Some divorced couples were interviewed also. Here are the Read more…

Empower a Teased Child to Rise Above

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, How Can I Improve My Country? March 15, 2020
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Empower a teased child to cope emotionally. As a child, I was teased mercilessly. I was small for my age. I appeared to be several years younger than my actual age. My ears were large. It took me years to Read more…

"Each reader's heart is like an eagle's and can soar above the storms in life..." - Near a River's Author, BJ Rae.

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic children's book about two young bald eagles who are eager for their mother to teach them to fly so they may soar over the storms in their lives. Near a River encourages early childhood reading. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and soars above the storms in life.

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