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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

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Parenting Articles

Articles in this category include a large and growing list of articles. They help those who work with children and parents with various child issues, from helping a child overcome traumatic events, helping a child become a successful adult, helping a child deal with depression, and raising a child to be a reader. Their ultimate purpose is for children–all children– to soar like eagles above life’s storms.

Bobbie J Rae’s vision is insightful and motivating. It brings you a successful and positive outlook on life.

These posts describe strategies to help children overcome life’s problems and become healthy, happy, and successful adults.

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic book for children 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 reading for children. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and soars above the storms in life.

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The Giraffe Story

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, Training for Success March 6, 2020

Today on the Animal Planet channel, I learned some interesting things about how a giraffe mother raises her young.. A mother giraffe in a British zoo was pregnant. As giraffe’s usually do, she labored to birth her young overnight. Around Read more…

Don’t Worry About Coronavirus!

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents December 11, 2023
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Why is it a waste of time to worry about coronavirus? I have been traveling on the East Coast during the coronavirus pandemic. Although I have a compromised immune system, I choose not to worry about this threat. Why do Read more…

A Successful Person

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, For Women/Mothers, Training for Success May 1, 2024

When a successful person dies, how is he or she described? Yesterday a very successful person died at age 92.  She never received a pay check nor did she measure her success by that fact.  Respected by everyone, she was Read more…

Died Accidentally

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents August 22, 2020

My friend had allergies like I do and died accidentally due to a simple mistake. My friend was still “young” like me, in her fifties. A brilliant woman, she had a lot going for her. Well-educated, she had gotten her Read more…

Coronavirus Finances

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents June 15, 2020
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Coronavirus can be deadly both to your health AND your finances! Money is getting tight due to the quarantine and your inability to work, but you can improve your finances. REPAIR YOUR OWN DEVICES! You haven’t worked since the coronavirus Read more…

Options

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, Training for Success September 24, 2020

Have you ever considered the world of options available to you? My husband, a diabetic, loves to eat sweets and junk foot. Recently we’ve been trying to curb his habit by stocking the kitchen with healthier food choices. Today we Read more…

Canceling Your Child’s Anger

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, How Can I Change the World?, Training for Success August 20, 2020

One of the biggest challenges for a parent is canceling a child’s anger. Living with an angry child is quite a challenge. After a short while, you might feel angry, too.  And, angry children grow into angry adults instead of Read more…

Not a Hoax

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, How Can I Change the World? July 13, 2020

A few days ago, a thirty-year-old man spoke his last words, “I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not.” On July 11, 2020, a man only thirty years young lay on his death bed at Methodist Hospital in San Read more…

The Hill

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, How Can I Change the World? September 2, 2020

Whether you have kids or not, please read this post about a hill. Until May of this year, we had always lived on a flat road. Then we moved to a home with a fantastic mountain view. Our home sits Read more…

What Children Think

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, How Can I Be Happy? May 5, 2020

What children really think can make you laugh sometimes. A teacher at a Catholic elementary school asked her students to answer questions about the Bible on a test. Her innocent students wrote these uncorrected statements. Do you know the Bible 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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